Regions of Europe - Other Groupings

Other Groupings

  • Baltic states
Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania
  • Benelux, or the Low Countries
Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg
  • British Isles
the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, and the Republic of Ireland
  • Caucasus
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and the North Caucasus
  • Channel Islands
Guernsey, Jersey
  • Nordic countries
Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Iceland
  • Scandinavia: Sweden, Norway, Denmark
  • Fennoscandia: Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Karelia; a geological region defined by the Fennoscandian shield
  • Alpine countries
The states which have the Alps as a prominent part of their geography.
Austria, Switzerland (Swiss Alps), Liechtenstein, Slovenia, Germany (Bavaria) France and Italy.
  • Danubian countries
The states that lie along the River Danube.
Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Ukraine.
  • Visegrad Group
A Central European group representing a historical alliance.
Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary
  • Mediterranean nations
Mediterranean nations are those nations bordering the Mediterranean Sea. Excluding African countries these are the following:
Spain, France, Monaco, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, and Malta and the British territory of Gibraltar
  • Blue Banana
Describing the concentration of the wealth/economic productivity of Europe in a banana-shaped band running from north west England, London, through Benelux, eastern France, western Germany to northern Italy.

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