Central and Eastern Europe

The term "Central and Eastern Europe" came into wide spread use, replacing "Eastern bloc", to describe former Communist countries in Europe, after the collapse of the Iron Curtain in 1989/90.

It has also come to refer to the European countries east of Germany and south to the Balkan states. Though this usage is not precisely defined, in most cases it includes:

• The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
• Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary
• Romania and Bulgaria

and sometimes also includes Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, and Russia.

See also

• Central Europe
• Eastern Europe

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