>>512901718First time I have ever heard about Europe geographically defined that way. Must be something taught just to Italians or perhaps Europeans.
Geographically, we are taught that Europe is divided into 5: Northern, Western, Central, Eastern, and Southern. Northern encompasses Scandinavia and North Sea Islands, Western is UK, Ireland, France, and Benelux, Southern is Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Greece. Central is Germany, Switzerland, and Austria.(Sometimes Czechia, Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary are included too, but usually not) Aside from the city states, the rest are Eastern. Sometimes the Balkans are carved out as a 6th and classified as Balkan or Southeastern. (Turkey, Armenia, and Georgia aren't European, they're Asian or more specifically Middle-Eastern)
Those are exclusively geographic designations. Western, as in Western Civilization, is completely different. We are taught that it began in Greece, spread to Italy from Greek colonists, and then spread to the landse once part of the Roman empire by the Romans, and then to the rest of Europe primarily through the Christian churches. Western in this sense is not a geographical designation, so Italy and Greece are Western, but they are not Western European, they are Southern European. Eastern Europe is still Western in this sense as well.