As a pole, I confirm the ‘centering’ of poland. Also, it becomes U$ military base now. But decades ago, while there was Polish People’s Republic here, cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, a highly influential person in this theocratic country, frequently tried to underline how Poland should be considered as belonging to “western civilization”. I think that dependency of Poland on these Vatican parasites and religion in general is the main reason why Poland is now a conservative, removed, reactionary country with mentality on the level of the dark ages.

The geographical centre of Europe is in Belarus, which is never called “central Europe” lol

Moreover, in the Mercator map, Europe is too big comparing to Africa than it is in reality. Maybe this is no intentional, and simply geometrical, but I am sure that westoids likes it that way.

I definitely agree that there is an “anti-oriental” bias as to why Europe is considered a continent, but at the same time it does make sense to have a distinction between the continents. Basing continents simply off of tectonics plates gets rough very quick, as Asia itself is divided into several plates (especially in Siberia, Eastern China, and Southeast Asia) and a large part of Siberia is itself located on the North American plate.

Plus there is a very decent natural “land border” in the form of the Urals and Western Steppes, both of which are very very lightly populated where the European border is drawn.