Geographical midpoint of Europe. If you make a physical copy of geometrical figure of Europe, it can be balanced on a needle placed at this point.

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1. is this an attempt to pretend to not be eastern europe?

2. I assume the islands would fall?

3. Lithuania is the centre of Europe. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

4. Can we start redefining Europe so ruzzia is completely out? No one wants to be friends with those cunts.

5. Keep in mind that the geographical midpoint is different than the center of gravity. The geographical midpoint takes into account just the extreme points but if you want to balance Europe on a needle you need the center of gravity which takes into account the distribution of area of a given shape. Therefore Europe will fall if you try to balance it on a needle over that Lithuanian point.

   Actually the needle will collapse, as the weight of Europe exceeds the needle’s compressive strength..

6. I think it’s time to redefine “Europe“ and exclude Russia. The people in Russia seem to hate everyone and everything in the other countries anyway. And also, erect a big “Center of Europe Obelisk” in Vilnius because Lithuania f-ing rocks!

   Edit: And to remind the Russians that the center of Europe is in Lithuania because they suck.

7. Doesn’t look right to me. Surely it’s much heavier in the SE.

8. Ha, check-mate all people who say that Poland is eastern Europe.

9. Strange, I think we were thought in school that central Europe is somewhere between the Rhine and Vistula rivers and the North and Adriatic sea. So approximately the former territory of HRE.

   But these definitions are arbitraty anyways. Geographical centre being in Lithuania is a bit of a surprise, I would expect it to be around Czechia, Austria, Slovenia.. I guess Poland is western Europe now and we are southern europe then, lol. Not that it matters tho.

10. Did you count Great Britain, Ireland, Iceland and the other islands? Because if you make a physical copy they’ll fall off and it won’t be balanced anymore.

11. You telling me that east Europe is actually central Europe?

12. If this is the literal center of Europe, what do people consider the ‘actual’ center of Europe?

    Switzerland?

13. We need to exclude islands. Then the center will be on the border of Poland, Ukraine and Belarus.

14. İt cannot be balanced there bacuse… I don’t think you can determine the weight of the fucking continent so it’d be very hard to be fully certain what the fuck this point is when taking a certain small force called gravity into count.

15. Don’t care, by this map most of the Balkans are western europe, checkmate! No more central and all of the bullshit to escape the word “east”.

16. For all the doubters out there, Lithuania has a Geographical Centre of Europe monument. [SOURCE](https://www.govilnius.lt/visit-vilnius/places/geographical-centre-of-europe)

17. Wow. If Portugal can into Eastern Europe it has even further to go now…

18. Strasbourg hates this little simple trick.

19. Ah yes, sure it is.

    I had a Polish girl from Wroclaw telling me that when you connect the lines from east to west and north to south you get the centre of Europe in – around Wroclaw.

20. How do you do fellow western europeans?

21. and where would that needle be if we removed a certain country in the east? purely hypothetical of course.

22. if you’ve just drawn a circle over Europe and put the red dot at its centre then I highly doubt you can claim that it could be balanced on a needle from that point

    you’ll need to figure out which parts of Europe are heavier in order to figure out its’ centre of mass and given the mountains on the south of Europe I’d say it’d be a bit further south

23. Lithuania Mitteleuropa confirmed

24. Since when is Russia Europe? 🙂

    And even if you go simply by land mass the pin is too far north.

    The only way this could be accurate is if russia and all the waters in the north are considered “Europe”

    Not very meaningful grafic, to say the least.

25. Villinus is the city of the worlds desire

26. And without Iceland and Svalbard?

27. Why not count in Tenerife islands, but count northern ones?

28. Russia doesn’t belong to Europe.

29. Does this take into acount heavier mass due to mountains etc?

30. It cannot be balanced on that point.
    Midpoint =! Center of gravity

31. Cyprus is Europe.

32. The maps of “europe” in this community are so inconsistent lol. Some include parts of the caucasus & parts of kazakhstan. Some exclude all of Turkey & Caucasus & much of western Russia. Can nobody make up their minds?

33. My sweet home Lithuania. Actually, when i say that my city is geographical centre of Europe no one ever believes me 😀

34. Oh no Central Europe is in Eastern Europe. Or is this Northern Europe? I will get some popcorns.

35. For some reason, Lithuania is one of the few random countries I always guess 100% right every time I play Geoguessr. Very nice country, I highly recommend it.

36. Does this include topology? I’m sure the Alps would be heavier than the plains of Spain

37. And they say Poland is eastern Europe!

38. We demand a map in which Croatia is on the West and Serbia on the East.

    If you do not comply we will spread our coastline even more!

39. I do not believe you. There are many lines of symmetry you can draw where there is far more land on one side than another

40. Objection!
    Some people see the countries of Georgia and Armenia as part of Europe. To them, that centre is wrong

41. Does this take curvature into account?

42. So you’re telling me that Poland is in Europe’s Soutwestern quarter?

43. Didnt know Kazakhstan was partially European!