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Location: Near Tours, France about 47°10'N 0°25'E
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Originally Posted by FlorianD
No German would say that Germany is part of northern Europe. That's ridiculous. Germany is of course part of central Europe. Northern Europe starts at the German-Danish border. Period.
Southern Germany is central European, but defintly not northern Germany. This part of Europe is not called "northern European plain" for nothing... Central Europe are those inland regions landlocked in the heart if European landmass (austria, bavaria, hungary, slovaquia, but certainly not northern Germany. The north of Germany is quintessentially northern European : it lies at same latitude and has shores on the NORTH sea... Opens on the Baltic sea, germanic language and culture, protestatism, hanseatic league heritage, ect. It can't be more tipically northern European, even if it is not scandinavian or nordic, wich covers a specific concept winthin northern Europe.
Location: Near Tours, France about 47°10'N 0°25'E
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Originally Posted by erka
This. Northern Europe is Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland.
In the Netherlands nobody says we are northern Europe. Everybody considers us to be part of Western Europe. Just like UK and Ireland. Germany is more difficult, being part of western Europe and central Europe simultaneously. But also not northern Europe.
That's a question of point of view, every country seem to think itself as been somehow "central", even when it is not. Netherlands lies on the border of the "north sea", not the "west sea"...
From a french point of view, everything north of Lille (itself in a depatement called "north"
Not without reasons...) is northern Europe.
The center of gravity of Europe population pass somewhere between Paris and Brussels, which mean that when you live north of Brussels most Europeans live further south than you...
Location: Near Tours, France about 47°10'N 0°25'E
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Originally Posted by easthome
See my previous post - the mid point of Europe is 57 degrees.
The mid-point between a line that join the two extreme points of Europe might be 57 degree North, this doesn't mean that the parralel that goes thru this point cut Europe in two equal halfs...
Scandinavia cover a large part of this line but only a little part in terms if surface. Wich means that the great majority of European land is located further south than this parralel... And I' m not even speaking about the demographic weight, as some people here have rightfully noticed it, maybe 95% of the european population live below parralel 57 degree north...
Location: Northern Ireland and temporarily England
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Originally Posted by tarzan_taborda
The mid point may be 57ºN, but most of the european landmass and population is between 40 to 55ºN, above 55ºN, there's not much population.
Basically Europe's north is between 50 and 65ºN, since there's not much above 65ºN, 1/2 million population perhaps?
and the southern half between 35 and 50ºN.
Exactly. These idiots saying the British Isles is in Southern Europe need their heads checked.
The British Isles extends up to 61N which is further north than parts of Norway. Stop with the inconsistencies.
Location: Northern Ireland and temporarily England
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Originally Posted by french user
Southern Germany is central European, but defintly not northern Germany. This part of Europe is not called "northern European plain" for nothing... Central Europe are those inland regions landlocked in the heart if European landmass (austria, bavaria, hungary, slovaquia, but certainly not northern Germany. The north of Germany is quintessentially northern European : it lies at same latitude and has shores on the NORTH sea... Opens on the Baltic sea, germanic language and culture, protestatism, hanseatic league heritage, ect. It can't be more tipically northern European, even if it is not scandinavian or nordic, wich covers a specific concept winthin northern Europe.
I don't consider any part of Germany in Northern Europe, its not far enough north.
Location: Near Tours, France about 47°10'N 0°25'E
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Originally Posted by cloxias
Northern Europe to me really stops at Danish-German, the Benelux and possibly Northern France.
If northern Europe ends at Danish-German border (where there isn't actually any natural nor cultural Gap by the way), how can french/benelux border beeing also the end of "northern Europe" while it is at the same latitude as Bavaria ? If Belgium is the limit of northern Europe, then, as I said, all the northern half is northern Europe, like Netherlands and England are.
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Exactly. These idiots saying the British Isles is in Southern Europe need their heads checked.
The British Isles extends up to 61N which is further north than parts of Norway. Stop with the inconsistencies.
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