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Mikulov town in the South Moravia region of the Czech Republic
Mikulov is a town in the South Moravia region of the Czech Republic, located in the center of Central Europe.
Image: Tadeáš Bednarz

About Central and Eastern Europe


The map shows Central Europe, sometimes referred to as Middle Europe or Median Europe, a region of the European continent lying between the variously defined areas of Eastern and Western Europe and south of the Northern European countries.

In most definitions, the countries of Central Europe are Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Hungary.
In some definitions, Switzerland and Croatia would also belong to Central Europe, as well as Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, North Macedonia and Albania. All these countries are in the Central European Time zone (CET = UTC + 1 hour).

Map of Central and Eastern Europe

Political Map of Central Europe
Political Map of Central and Eastern Europe

The map shows Central and Eastern Europe and surrounding countries with international borders, national capitals, major cities and major airports.

You are free to use the above map for educational and similar purposes; if publishing, please credit Nations Online Project as the source.


More about the central and eastern part of Europe



Monastry Island and Merefa-Kherson bridge over the Dnieper River in Dnipro, Ukraine.
Monastery Island and Merefa-Kherson bridge over the Dnieper River in Dnipro (Dnipropetrovsk), Ukraine.
Photo: Bodydock


Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is, as the name says, the eastern part of Europe. According to the United Nations definition, countries within Eastern Europe are Belarus, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine and the western part of the Russian Federation (see: European Russia map).

All these countries are using Eastern European Time (EET = UTC +2 hours) except Belarus (Minsk Time, UTC+3 hours), the Kaliningrad Oblast (UTC+3 hours) and the Russian Federation (Moscow Time UTC+4 h).

Northern Europe
The map also shows some countries of Northern Europe, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden and the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

There is one country of Western Asia with a territory partial in Southern Europe: Turkey.
There are two countries of Western Asia with a territory partial in Eastern Europe: Georgia and Azerbaijan, and there is one country in Central Asia with a portion of its territory in Eastern Europe: Kazakhstan.
 

More about Europe:

 Countries of Europe
List of European countries.

Capital Cities of Europe
List of European capitals.

Flags of Europe
European national flags.

 Languages of Europe
Languages of Europe are English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Nordic Languages and East European languages.

Map of Europe
Political map of Europe showing the Member States of the European Union (EU) and EFTA, with major cities and capitals.
 

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