Where does Central Europe begin and end?

Timely-Macaron268:

In a similar to my other post [about the Balkans](https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1tz1quh/how_balkan_are_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? **------** **Maps I included:** * [World Factbook](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Central_Europe_in_CIA_World_Factbook.png) (2008) * [StAGN State Boundaries ](https://www.stagn.de/DE/1_Der_StAGN/Publikationen/StAGN_GGEuropa/grosseu_node.html)(2005) * [StAGN Cultural Proximity](https://www.stagn.de/DE/1_Der_StAGN/Publikationen/StAGN_GGEuropa/grosseu_node.html) (2005) * [E. Schenk](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Central_Europe_%28by_E._Schenk%29.PNG) (1950) * [Alice F. A. Mutton in Central Europe](https://archive.org/details/bwb_S0-BQI-577/page/n5/mode/2up) (1961) * [Czesław\_Miłosz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Europe_m%C3%A9diane,_Czes%C5%82aw_Mi%C5%82osz.png) (1983) * [Katzenstein (Visegrad)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Europe#/media/File:Central_Europe_Katzenstein.png) (1997) * [Encarta Encyclopedia](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Central-Europe-Encarta.png) (2009) * [Encyclopédie Larousse](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Central_Europe_(Larousse).PNG) (2015) * [Meyers Grosses Taschenlexikon](https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Central_Europe_%28Mayers_Enzyklopaedisches_Lexikon%29.PNG) (1999) * [EU Interreg Central Europe Program](https://www.interreg-central.eu/library/programme-manual/commonprovisions/programme-priorities-and-structure/) (2026) * [Columbia University](https://ciaotest.cc.columbia.edu/casestudy/media/nic01_ceuromap.html) (1998) * [Emmanuel de Martonne ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Central_Europe_(Geographie_universelle,_1927).svg)(1927) * [Sourcebook of Central European Avant-Gardes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Avantgarde_CE.svg) (1930) * [Europe Then and Now ](https://neweasterneurope.eu/2013/05/02/europe-then-and-now/)(2013) * [Danube River Basin](https://www.icpdr.org/danube-basin/danube-river-basin/danube-river-basin-overview-map) (2021)

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