Europe is a somewhat contorted triangle at the Western extreme of Eurasia.
![](https://jaxroam.vivaldi.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/488/2023/07/Earth-Europe.png)
Like most other regions, Europe is habitually presented with north pointing up. Which is fine, that is a standard and standards help us take in geographical data without having to reorient ourselves. This the familiar, to us Europeans at least, standard representation™ of Europe (I’ve used Google Earth for all these projections).
![](https://jaxroam.vivaldi.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/488/2023/07/image-1024x582.png)
However, going back to Europe being a triangle, more or less, to get different European perspectives we should go to the three sides of that triangle. Beginning with
Atlantic Europe
![](https://jaxroam.vivaldi.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/488/2023/07/Europe-1024x579.png)
This is the dominant side, more people live to the west and they are overall richer. Viz the Blue Banana.
Also the Atlantic side is to a large extent Trans-Atlantic. What happens on the American continent, particularly North America, matters most.
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