Northern Europe is the British Isles, Iceland, Scandinavia, Finland, and the Baltic countries, according to the UN's statistical definition of European regions.

Northern Europe is the British Isles, Iceland, Scandinavia, Finland, and the Baltic countries, according to the UN's statistical definition of European regions. Here's a map: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Europe_subregion_map_UN_geoschme.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Europe_subregion_map... Western Europe in that scheme is France, Germany, Benelux, Switzerland, and Austria. The EU's grouping, on the other hand, while mostly the same, puts the British Isles into Western Europe: http://eurovoc.europa.eu/drupal/?q=request&uri=http://eurovoc.europa.eu/100277 http://eurovoc.europa.eu/drupal/?q=request&uri=http://eurovo...