Central Europe is the region of
Europe between
Eastern Europe and
Western Europe, frequently taken to include
Poland, the
Czech Republic,
Slovakia,
Hungary and
Slovenia. List of countries which sometimes are
included is however much larger, and many times it
includes
Germany,
Austria,
Switzerland and
Liechtenstein. Sometimes countries which
consider themselves part of Central Europe consider
states east from that as Eastern Europe, so it is
common in Germany to speak about Poland as part of
Eastern Europe, and in Poland to speak the same
about Ukraine.
One used to joke that Central Europe is that part
of that continent, which by people from Western
Europe is considered Eastern, and by those from
Eastern Europe is considered Western. Another one
define Central Europe as those part of Europe
Western from culture and history, which were
conquered by
Soviet Union.
