26 Facts About Eastern Europe

1. Eastern Europe supports high densities of population, concentrated in urban-industrial regions.

2. Eastern Europe is a continent that comprises the westernmost part of Eurasia.

3. Eastern Europe shares common positive characteristics that not only distinguish it from Western Europe, but from most of the world.

4. Eastern Europe is becoming an increasingly popular destination for outsourced software engineering.

5. Eastern Europe is incredible; I from Germany, In Germany we speak not much English.

6. Eastern Europe is a fascinating continent with a rich history and varied climate and culture.

7. Eastern Europe is the western peninsula of the giant "supercontinent" of Eurasia.

8. Eastern Europe is a peninsula of the Eurasian supercontinent and is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and the Mediterranean, Black, and Caspian Seas to the south.

9. Eastern Europe extends from the island nation of Iceland in the west to the Ural Mountains of Russia in the east.

10. Eastern Europe is predominantly Slavic and occupies two thirds of the total territory of this subcontinent of Eurasia.

11. Eastern Europe has produced some of the most influential scientists and inventors in history.

12. Eastern Europe has a large variety of minerals; coal, iron ore, and salt are abundant.

13. Eastern Europe is washed in the north by the Arctic Ocean, and in the west by the Atlantic Ocean, with which the North Sea and the Baltic Sea are connected.

14. Eastern Europe has long been a marginalized region—considered the home of "barbarians" by the Greeks, far-flung backwater provinces to the Romans, fair prey for the Mongols—a vast land for civilized empires to "enlighten.

15. Eastern Europe has long been thought of as the "Other Europe", a marginalized region rife with political upheaval, shifting national borders, an astonishing variety of ethnic diversity, and relative isolation from the centers of power in the West.

16. Eastern Europe has long been a marginalized region\u2014considered the home of \u201cbarbarians\u201d by the Greeks, far-flung backwater provinces to the Romans, fair prey for the Mongols\u2014a vast land for civilized empires to \u201cenlighten.

17. Eastern Europe has long been thought of as the \u201cOther Europe,\u201d a marginalized region rife with political upheaval, shifting national borders, an astonishing variety of ethnic diversity, and relative isolation from the centers of power in the West.

18. Eastern Europe is the planet's 6th largest continent AND includes 47 countries and assorted dependencies, islands and territories.

19. Eastern Europe is a region that encompasses many different cultures, ethnicities, languages, and histories.

20. Eastern Europe is even worse than this article lets on.

21. Eastern Europe is a big pile of shit, always was, and always will be.

22. Eastern Europe is a place where I was born and is still more or less my spiritual home.

23. Eastern Europe has experienced countless wars throughout its history interrupted by brief peacetimes.

24. All the countries in Eastern Europe adopted communist modes of control.

25. Since the Great Schism of 1054, Eastern Europe has been divided between Roman Catholic and Protestant churches in the West, and the Eastern Orthodox Christian churches in the east.

26. Eastern Europe is the eastern part of the European continent.