Finland and baltics are northern Europe, not eastern.

Typical Europeans: colonizing this post about Africa to make it about themselves instead. \s

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 🤪

I've never heard anyone claim the Baltics are not Eastern Europe. Then again, I'm on a different continent.

As for the rest, it's all down to which side they were on/put in during the Cold War.

Austria is literally lumped into "Eastern Europe" on this map lol

that's pretty angry

Eastern Europe is not real

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