Eastern Europe

Traditional cultural borders of Europe: usage recommendation by the Standing Committee on Geographical Names, Germany.

Eastern Europe is the eastern part of the European continent.

Countries

Eastern Europe is formed by countries with dominant Eastern Orthodox churches, like

• Armenia
• Belarus
• Bulgaria
• Cyprus
• Czech Republic
• Georgia
• Greece
• Hungary
• Macedonia
• Moldova
• Montenegro
• Poland
• Romania
• Russia
• Serbia
• Slovakia
• Ukraine

Geographical boundaries

While the eastern geographical boundaries of Europe are well defined, the boundary between Eastern and Western Europe is not geographical but historical, religious and cultural and is harder to designate.

The Ural Mountains, Ural River, and the Caucasus Mountains are the geographical land border of the eastern edge of Europe. E.g. Kazakhstan, which is mainly located in Central Asia with the most western parts of it located west of the Ural River, also shares a part of Eastern Europe.

In the west, however, the historical and cultural boundaries of "Eastern Europe" are subject to some overlap and, most importantly, have undergone historical fluctuations, which makes a precise definition of the western geographic boundaries of Eastern Europe and the geographical midpoint of Europe somewhat difficult.