Remember, there is no Eastern Europe and no Western Europe in this discussion.
Questions you may want to ask yourself to help formulate an opinion would be: Does it snow a lot in winter? Do Polish people wave their arms around a lot and get all emotional? Beer and spirits or red wine? There's no time like the present, or manana?
When the question was west or east, I devised a system by which the Greenwich meridian is the point by which the various compass-point derived divisions of Europe should be set. I din't post my map showing north and south because it wasn't relevant to that discussion. Now, three months on, it is time for me to show you all what is north, what is south and what is central. Again, I have used Greenwich as the central point. All countries entirely north of the latitude of Greenwich are northern, all that are entirely south of that line are southern Europe, and countries that span this line are central European countries. Enjoy.
i read an interesting article recently that used the Greenwich meridian as the same point of reference to show that all of europe, and a substantial part of north america, central and southern asia, is infact part of england. fascinating stuff
If you're in Oodaaq, Greenland everybody else is south from you. If you're standing in the geographic South Pole in Antarctica no matter if you take a left or a right, go straight ahead or even backwards, you go NORTH.
Central Europe is the region lying between the variously and vaguely defined areas of Eastern and Western Europe. In addition, Northern, Southern and Southeastern Europe may variously delimit or overlap into Central Europe. The term and widespread interest in the region itself came back into fashion[1] after the end of the Cold War, which had divided Europe politically into East and West, with the Iron Curtain splitting "Central Europe" in half.
From a marine point of view, that kind of works. Britain is in the Atlantic. Italy is in the Mediterranean, so why shouldn't Poland be in the Baltic? At least it's not so unlucky as all those landlocked countries where the herrings never go.
