Where does Central Europe begin and end?

Timely-Macaron268:

In a similar to my other post about the Balkans I have taken the outline of what 16 unique maps describe as 'Central Europe' and superimposed them on one another to create a heatmap of Central Europe.

Note: this map is not an authoritative truth claim and it doesn't claim to be.

There is quite clearly a close-to-consensus region consistent of Czechia and its neighbours (though only Slovakia and Moravia clinched the 100% score). Other areas, such as Slovenia and Switzerland are usually included. Beyond them lies a wide periphery of 'sometimes Central European, sometimes not'.

EDIT: I have made a terrible mistake; Slovakia was not included on one of the maps and therefore should also only be at 94%. Only Moravia and tiny slices of Bohemia should be at 100%.

Where do you draw the line?

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Maps I included:

• World Factbook (2008)

• StAGN State Boundaries (2005)

• StAGN Cultural Proximity (2005)

• E. Schenk (1950)

• Alice F. A. Mutton in Central Europe (1961)

• Czesław_Miłosz (1983)

• Katzenstein (Visegrad) (1997)

• Encarta Encyclopedia (2009)

• Encyclopédie Larousse (2015)

• Meyers Grosses Taschenlexikon (1999)

• EU Interreg Central Europe Program (2026)

• Columbia University (1998)

• Emmanuel de Martonne (1927)

• Sourcebook of Central European Avant-Gardes (1930)

• Europe Then and Now (2013)

• Danube River Basin (2021)

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