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I voted for "Other Europe", since Slovenia is neither Western or Eastern Europe. It's somewhere in the middle :)

• davidw 16y ago
  Is it Southern Europe? It's right next to Italy, but doesn't extend so far south, and is barely a Mediterranean country. In any case, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece are what I'd call 'Southern Europe' more than west or east, although I'd say west if I had to pick one.
  • CWIZO 16y ago
    We always had the problem of putting Slovenia in one of the slots. If you ask me it's in Central Europe, but historically we ware always put in the Eastern part (but that probably has more to do with politics than geography).
    • mati 16y ago
      Have the same issue with Poland. We need this damn Central Europe category so we can escape the dreaded "Eastern Europe" badge... And since we are in no way Western, Central is the only way. </sarcasm>
      • zalew 16y ago
        No, we don't need any new categories http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Europe_subregion_map_UN_geoschme.svg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Europe_subregion_map_UN_ge... Unless we speak colloquially, then there's an infinite number of groups to qualify. The OP should use some reference to choose categories ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2147290 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2147290 ), his are a bit strange and subjective.
        • leon_ 16y ago
          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Europe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Europe
          • zalew 16y ago
            It has no official significance, just a common term, and your link proves my point. I'm from Poland and by Larousse we're not central, by Brittanica we are.
            • leon_ 16y ago
              For this survey it would be nice if we had a finer granularity. It would be interesting to see where the most HN users sit in Europe. Western, eastern and "other" Europe for a population of 700+ million people is rather sub optimal. Compare that to the amount of options for the US with its 220 mio population. I'd propose a schema like this: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Europe_subregion_map_world_factbook.svg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Europe_subregion_map_...