Western Europe and Eastern Europe

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generally speaking in economics that it is popular that western is developed and eastern is developing countries right?

[Brono14]

Well, not exactly. Many EE countries are OECD members, which means they belong to a club of world's most developed countries. Of course you can say that they're generally still less developed than WE, but some of them (like Slovenia) are pretty comparable.

[Los Earth]

Originally Posted by Brono14

Well, not exactly. Many EE countries are OECD members, which means they belong to a club of world's most developed countries. Of course you can say that they're generally still less developed than WE, but some of them (like Slovenia) are pretty comparable.

Well parts of them
GDP 56 billion
but per capita about 23,000, so that's good.

[Verso]

It's $28,000.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...%29_per_capita

[Los Earth]

Originally Posted by Verso

It's $28,000.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...%29_per_capita

small difference but better than I thought.

[Los Earth]

religions of Europe
Some or most is divided some way, in regions
North is different, for some reason

[Los Earth]

Does Slovenia receive enough tourists to be exact with Britain, France etc... per capita?

[Verso]

Originally Posted by Los Earth

Does Slovenia receive enough tourists to be exact with Britain, France etc... per capita?

If you mean foreign tourists, there were 1,869,106 in Slovenia in 2010 according to statistical office. Here are top 10 countries in 2010. France and Spain have more foreign tourists per capita than Slovenia, while USA, China, Italy, UK, Turkey, Germany, Malaysia, and Mexico have less.

[Los Earth]

Originally Posted by Verso

If you mean foreign tourists, there were 1,869,106 in Slovenia in 2010 according to statistical office. Here are top 10 countries in 2010. France and Spain have more foreign tourists per capita than Slovenia, while USA, China, Italy, UK, Turkey, Germany, Malaysia, and Mexico have less.

USA? interesting and China.
shows how famous Slovenia is for their attractions,

Do these look familiar to you?
what are other famous attractions for tourists?

[Verso]

That's Branik.

Originally Posted by Los Earth

USA? interesting and China.

That's not surprising. China is a huge nation; you can't expect 1.3 billion foreigners to visit it annually. US is also much larger than Slovenia and only borders low-populated Canada and not-so-rich Mexico.

Originally Posted by Los Earth

what are other famous attractions for tourists?

Top attractions are Ljubljana, Bled and Bohinj, Postojna Cave, Piran, Maribor ...

[Los Earth]

Originally Posted by Verso

It could be Štanjel or Vipavski Križ, but I'm not sure, it looks quite generic to me.

That's not surprising. China is a huge nation; you can't expect 1.3 billion foreigners to visit it annually. US is also much larger than Slovenia and only borders low-populated Canada and not-so-rich Mexico.

Top attractions are Ljubljana, Bled and Bohinj, Postojna Cave, Piran, Maribor ...

sorry, forgot about Chinas population.


Bled and Bohinj looks so beautiful

Not to to be mean, but I always heard the Balkans was some of the most poorest regions in Europe. (after Moldova)

[Linguine]

gorgeous shot...

[Verso]

Originally Posted by Los Earth

Not to to be mean, but I always heard the Balkans was some of the most poorest regions in Europe. (after Moldova)

It is, but not Slovenia, which lies on the edge of the Balkan Peninsula anyway. Greece was also fine until recently, so the only richer territory is that tiny Balkan part of Italy (Trieste), if we include it in the Balkans (more geographic definition).

[Los Earth]

I guess that country gets blended in into looking like those poor countries for us foreigners.

[Verso]

The problem is that Slovenia is small and not well-known.

[Slartibartfas]

Originally Posted by NordikNerd

Europe can be divided in several ways. It's west or east, mainland Europe or outside the mainland (Brittain, Scandinavia, Malta, Cyprus, Iceland)

But Vienna is situated east of Prague still Vienna has always belonged to the West and Prague to the East. So the east is considered to be the slavic post communist countries, including non slavic Hungary, also the east has a lower standard of living due to its history, which makes it cheaper to tourists.

Actually "always" is not quite right. "Since WW2" might be a better description, as this west vs east classification is a child of the cold war. Prague and Vienna were two major cities in the same country before 1918 for centuries.

Otherwise I agree with you. Europe is hard to grasp and there are many different lines of division of all sorts, religious, language, legal, cultural, historical etc. At the same time there are equally many characteristics many share. No regional classification will be a perfect description of reality. That is why you can't cut Europe simply into east vs west.

The OP actually seems to be talking of "orthodox Europe" vs the rest.

Russians do not consider themselves europeans at all, they want to be reffered to as russians only.

Really? Actually I have no idea how Russians view themselves. But those who I know never were terribly eager to pronounce that they are non-European. Not that this was ever an issue either so far.

So talking about europe is something done mostly by people living outside Europe.

Europe is so diverse both geographicly and culturally so trying to unite the continent either by a union or a currency will result in a fail.

I disagree. You made a point of the heterogeneity of Europe, but you ignored the many commonalities.

[Slartibartfas]

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[gotin]

Both Europes Eastern and Western are beautiful!

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There is only one Europe, not two.

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Originally Posted by gotin

This is beautiful building!!

really? And what's wrong with another church?
I like both, each in its own way