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UK and "Rest of Europe", got to love this point of view :-) You might as well go ahead and say "UK" and "Europe", wouldn't be too far off the mark.
by jwr 15y ago
UK and "Rest of Europe", got to love this point of view :-) You might as well go ahead and say "UK" and "Europe", wouldn't be too far off the mark.
- nadam 15y agoI would say "UK" and "Continental Europe".
- patrickk 15y agoWhere does that leave Ireland and the Nordic countries?
- nadam 15y agoOk, you are right.
- abrahamsen 15y agoThe Nordic countries (except Iceland) are technically part of Continental Europe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Europe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Europe
- arvinjoar 15y ago"Techincally" yes, but up here in Sweden we usually exclude ourselves from Continental Europe as it doesn't feel like we're part of it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Europe#Scandinavia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Europe#Scandinavia
- jholman 15y agoIreland is left in the same bin as Mexico. You can see it up there, can't you?
- rplnt 15y agoOn a (loosely) related note, dividing Europe to West/East (perhaps Central) is purely political (it follows Berlin Wall[1]). For example, countries of V4[2] are in the middle[3] and yet they are called Eastern Europe. Another reason might be that most of the East is covered by Russia. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visegrád_group http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visegrád_group 3. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/Europe_polar_stereographic_Caucasus_Urals_boundary.svg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/Europe_po...
- fedd 15y agothe division could also be based on the population density. in the west it's higher -> the east-west boundary is to the west..
- rmc 15y agodividing Europe to West/East (perhaps Central) is purely political (it follows Berlin Wall[1]) There has been a long history of splitting Europe into East/West, starting with when the Roman Empire was split into East & West. Though the definition of what's east and what's west has changed since then.
- fedd 15y agoseems like the poll divides the world into SF(&NY), English speaking areas, China, and the rest of the world! :)