Cultural Regions Of Europe According The German Permanent Committee on Geographical Names

Map created by reddit user VhermithraxThe map above is a broad attempt to classify Europe’s main cultural and economic regions. Unlike other maps, it also highlights both national borders and cultural proximities.

It’s based on the German Permanent Committee on Geographical Names (German: Ständiger Ausschuss für geographische Namen (StAGN)) definition of various regions.

They are:

• Western Europe: Includes, UK, Ireland, Belgium, Netherlands and most of France.
• Northern Europe: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, and Finland
• Central Europe: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, and the Baltic countries and some of France, Italy, Romania and Ukraine.
• Eastern Europe: Russia, Belarus, Ukraine
• Southern Europe: Spain, Portugal, Italy, Malta and some of Southern France.
• South Eastern Europe: Most of the Balkans, Greece, Bulgaria, Moldova, Cyprus, European Türkiye and most of Romania.

Here’s alternative version from Unimaps World:

and another funny post from Dalmatian Mapper:

What do you think? Do these feel accurate to you?