Geographically speaking, Europe is divided into 5 social - geographical regions: Western, Central, Northern, Eastern and Southern Europe!
Geographic Western Europe is not the same as the political Western Europe! West is the term used for those countries that have had a capitalist political system, as opposed to the notion of "East", which is used for the former socialist countries.
Coz the whole of Europe is now organized with the democratic capitalist state system, the political term "East" has lost his purpose.
The term "West" today, geopolitically speaking generally indicate a democratic and capitalistic countries of Christian orientation, so that today the whole Europe can be classified in the term "West".
Socio - geographical division of Europe:
Western (Athlantic) Europe: Ireland, United Kingdom, France and Benelux States (The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg).
Northern Europe: Scandinavia (Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland) and Estonia (coz Eesti in historical and social terms is much more closer to Finland than to Eastern Europe).
Central Europe: Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein and Slovenia!
South Europe is divided on two parts:
1. Southern Europe (european far south): Iberian Peninsula (Portugal, Spain and Andora), Monaco, Apennine pns (Italy, San Marino and Vatican City), extreme southern part of Balkan Peninsula (Greece) and Mediterranean islands nation (Malta, Cyprus).
Geological Malta is part of African land, and Cyprus is part of Asia.
2. South-eastern Europe: Balkan Peninsula states: Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova and East Turkish Trace.
(Romania and Moldova are not on Balkans but on social way they belongs there)
Eastern Europe: ex Soviet countries (Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgian Abkhazia and small part of Kazakhstan western of Ural river)!
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