I'm so fucking done with maps lumping Central Europe into Eastern Europe. Like you wanna tell me that Austria, Greece, Finland are somehow not eastern but Czechia is. Or how sometimes the Baltics are not eastern but Hungary is.
In this thread: westerners telling me what I should think. Well gee, next time maybe tone down the imperialism a bit.
And yet few people would argue the same of Murmansk, mostly north of Helsinki. We really need to consider history here, as well. Specifically which side of the iron curtain they were on.
I mean, I am fucking done with maps portraying Europe as a continent. It is called Eurasia, you just like feeling extra special but geographically you are not 🤪
They labelled those parts of the connected landmass with those separate labels so people wouldn't complain that some parts didn't belong to the culturally arbitrary grouping.
The point of the map is to demonstrate that Africa is larger than all of those geopolitically relevant areas, and those connected bits fit into the space so it was included. Don't think too much about it.
Not in, like, the "there's nothing there" way, but in the "there's no substantive economic, social or geographic reasons to treat it as a cohesive region" way