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Originally Posted by 10023
A large part of Germany’s struggle historically is that it is the place where Europe’s region’s meet, for the most part (though Lombardy in Italy is where Northern Europe, or Central Europe if you’d rather, meets Southern Europe).
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Historically it's undeniable that for the longest time (many centuries) you absolutely couldn't fit Germany into a single subregion of Europe. You can't put the East Frisian Islands, Aachen, Luxembourg and Strasbourg in the same subregion as Königsberg in East Prussia.
Now, Germany is geographically smaller, so it's already less impossible for someone to try to build an argument that the entirety of Germany is in Central Europe nowadays, while "Western" would be reserved for France/Britain/Benelux/Ireland.
Thinking about it, maybe I'd put Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, and the part of Germany that used to be the DDR, in "Central Europe". But Poland and the Baltic States are Eastern, to me.