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German Encyclopedia Meyers Grosses Taschenlexikon (Meyers Big Pocket Encyclopedia), 1999, defines Central Europe as the central part of the European Continent with no exact borders in the eastern and western sides.

Mostly used to denominate the territory between the 350-kilometer long Schelde River in northern France, western Belgium and southwestern Netherlands to Vistula River in Poland, bordering on Austria’s Danube River and the Moravian Gate in Czech Republic – countries making up the region are Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland. In a broader sense, it also includes Romania, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.