Where does northern Europe end? (speak, cons, Germany, France)
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Dark blue is northern Europe. End of story, nurdz gotta stop being nurdz. UN says these are northern Europe, so everybody shut up with the pointless Europe region debates
Dunno about that, but the Scots and Dutch are as Central European to us real Northerners than french user's French blokes living in Northern or Central France. Or Austrians, or Swiss. Certainly not Northern.
Northern Europe is the welfare state, conifer forests, smoked salmon, aurora borealis, heavy drinking, snow and 100 other things. Not 50% welfare state, stamppot, toll roads, deciduous forests, rainy winters, pot smoking, wine-drinking or haggis.
That's the difference.
Toll roads, pot smoking and wine drinking, that is Norway Rainy winters and deciduous forests are also Norway, western Norway that is In Norway there is something better than stamppot, it is called Lapskaus
Toll roads, pot smoking and wine drinking, that is Norway Rainy winters and deciduous forests are also Norway, western Norway that is In Norway there is something better than stamppot, it is called Lapskaus
Yeah but your toll roads are to cover the expenses of numerous tunnels. The wine-drinking is probably because of the lack of good breweries. About rainy winters, good that there is the scandinavian mountains.
Dark blue is northern Europe. End of story, nurdz gotta stop being nurdz. UN says these are northern Europe, so everybody shut up with the pointless Europe region debates
Well, it's relevant to the topic, which is about intolerance in northern Europe. Which is different from, say, intolerance in England or Britain in general.
I've never found an explanation for that map's violet/lavender/pinkish colors, btw. Is that "quasi-Eastern Europe"? "Maybe Europe/maybe-kinda Asia"? What do they call it? Is purple for "We don't know what the heck these are supposed to be"?
Yeah but your toll roads are to cover the expenses of numerous tunnels. The wine-drinking is probably because of the lack of good breweries. About rainy winters, good that there is the scandinavian mountains.
Well, it's relevant to the topic, which is about intolerance in northern Europe. Which is different from, say, intolerance in England or Britain in general.
I've never found an explanation for that map's violet/lavender/pinkish colors, btw. Is that "quasi-Eastern Europe"? "Maybe Europe/maybe-kinda Asia"? What do they call it? Is purple for "We don't know what the heck these are supposed to be"?
I suppose so. Well I actually found this map
And this map is based on the official EU definitions for European regions and is used in EU parliament and institutions. So, let's settle this debate because the EU has spoken. The British isles are western Europe, while northern Europe is contiguous with the Nordic Council and the Baltic States
The fractal geometry of the western extremity of the Eurasian landmass, especially when coupled with both shores of the Mediterranean, including the Black Sea, defies, with few exceptions, any neat uniform categories of east, west, north and south.
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Dunno about that, but the Scots and Dutch are as Central European to us real Northerners than french user's French blokes living in Northern or Central France. Or Austrians, or Swiss. Certainly not Northern.
Northern Europe is the welfare state, conifer forests, smoked salmon, aurora borealis, heavy drinking, snow and 100 other things. Not 50% welfare state, stamppot, toll roads, deciduous forests, rainy winters, pot smoking, wine-drinking or haggis.
That's the difference.
What you speak about is more specifically "scandinavia" or "nordic countries..." A cultural or geopolitical concept narrower than "northern Europe". "Northern" means "to the north", as such is opposes to "southern" and not to a loosy defined "central europe" concept (wich is not normally used in the way you seem to do, and which Certainly does not includes France).
Geographically Northern europe simply reffers more or less to the north half of Europe : places on the northern side if the European landmass...
The netherlands, britain or the northern half of Germany are without doubt in northern Europe: both by their belonging to the germanic/protestant beer drinking cultures as well with their geography. Why do you think the sea that is located between england, nertherlands, scotland or Denmark is called the "north sea"? It is not called the "central sea"...
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Rainy winters and deciduous forests are also Norway, western Norway that is 
In Norway there is something better than stamppot, it is called Lapskaus 
