Technically all the islands west of the European Mainland are the British Isles (even if the Irish don't like it) but it is only a geographic term. Used to get me in all sorts of trouble in school in the UK when I would know the correct answer to 'The most western County of the British Isles' and the rest, including the teacher, didn't (The answer is Kerry, not as most put the Western Hebredies). Mind you, that particular geography teacher was useless, we had an ongoing battle as to the amount of states in the US (I said 50 and he said 52, and he wasn't including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.) Finally I wrote them down (from memory) and challenged him to find 2 more...he didn't.
Anyway, I digress. I found myself using Western Europe or Western European to denote people from the British Isles, when I was in the States, as we all hung out together and it was easier to give us all one designation. At least people over there had learned the difference between British and Irish, although one person made an enemy for life of a Welsh (and rather militant about it), friend of mine by insisting he was English and couldn't be used as an item in the Scavenger Hunt (the Item was 2 non-English, Dutch or Australian Counsellors - yes, I was working on a Camp). Since then I have always looked on the British isles as Western Europe, the western mainland as Central Europe (from CET - Central European Time), Scandinavia, Russia and the former USSR countries in Western USSR (latia, Estonia etc.) as Northern Europe and such places as Poland, Czech & Slovak Republics, the Balkan States etc. as Eastern Europe. This, incidently, is just my opinion and what I have found as easy enough designations.
hehe, Western Europe includes France as well as the British Isles. Central Europe = Benelux, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Czech republik, Slovakia, Poland. You want the rest as well?
Who says France is part of Western Europe? I said that *I* find it easier to put all the western mainland of Europe (i.e France, Germany, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Benelux, Switzerland, Monaco, Andorra, San Marino, Lichenstein, Italy & the VC) as Central Europe, with the name coming from the Time Zone; Central European Time, which all of them except Portugal observes, and anything that was traditionally eastern Europe (i.e. Poland, Czech & Slovak Republics, Hungary, Former Yugoslavian States, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldovia, Greece & The Ukraine), along with Italy & the VC as Eastern Europe (although most of them observe CET rather than EET). The other European countries mention *I* consider Northern Europe (i.e Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia & Belarus) Note that my visualization does not nessessarily (I can never spell that) follow a straight North-South line.
Who says France is part of Western Europe? I said that *I* find it easier to put all the western mainland of Europe (i.e France, Germany, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Benelux, Switzerland, Monaco, Andorra, San Marino, Lichenstein, Italy & the VC) as Central Europe, with the name coming from the Time Zone; Central European Time, which all of them except Portugal observes, and anything that was traditionally eastern Europe (i.e. Poland, Czech & Slovak Republics, Hungary, Former Yugoslavian States, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldovia, Greece & The Ukraine), along with Italy & the VC as Eastern Europe (although most of them observe CET rather than EET). The other European countries mention *I* consider Northern Europe (i.e Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia & Belarus) Note that my visualization does not nessessarily (I can never spell that) follow a straight North-South line.
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Anyway, I digress. I found myself using Western Europe or Western European to denote people from the British Isles, when I was in the States, as we all hung out together and it was easier to give us all one designation. At least people over there had learned the difference between British and Irish, although one person made an enemy for life of a Welsh (and rather militant about it), friend of mine by insisting he was English and couldn't be used as an item in the Scavenger Hunt (the Item was 2 non-English, Dutch or Australian Counsellors - yes, I was working on a Camp). Since then I have always looked on the British isles as Western Europe, the western mainland as Central Europe (from CET - Central European Time), Scandinavia, Russia and the former USSR countries in Western USSR (latia, Estonia etc.) as Northern Europe and such places as Poland, Czech & Slovak Republics, the Balkan States etc. as Eastern Europe. This, incidently, is just my opinion and what I have found as easy enough designations.
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