Lesson Western European countries Plan: Introduction. Political map of the

Geography: Realms, Regions, and Concepts
Geography: Realms, Regions, and Concepts has been published since 1971 and now in its 17th edition.^[12] It was written by the authors Jan Nijman, Peter O. Muller and Harm J. de Blij. It is used in many US schools to teach students world geography.
Here, the definition of Western Europe includes:

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  Austria
  
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  Belgium
  
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  Czech Republic
  
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  France
  
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  Germany
  
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  Ireland
  
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  Liechtenstein
  
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  Luxembourg
  
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  Monaco
  
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  Netherlands
  
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  Switzerland
  
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  United Kingdom
  

CIA classification

Regions of Europe based on CIA World Factbook:
  Northern Europe
  Western Europe
  Central Europe
  Southwest Europe
  Southern Europe
  Southeast Europe
  Eastern Europe
The CIA classifies seven countries as belonging to "Western Europe":

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  Belgium
  
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  France
  
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  Ireland
  
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  Luxembourg
  
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  Monaco
  
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  Netherlands
  
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  United Kingdom
  

The CIA also classifies three countries as belonging to "Southwestern Europe":

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  Andorra
  
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  Portugal
  
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  Spain
  

EuroVoc classification

European sub-regions according to EuroVoc:
  Northern Europe
  Western Europe
  Southern Europe
  Central and Eastern Europe
EuroVoc is a multilingual thesaurus maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union. In this thesaurus, the countries of Europe are grouped into sub-regions. The following countries are included in the sub-group Western Europe:

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  Andorra
  
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  Austria
  
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  Belgium
  
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  France
  
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  Germany
  
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  Ireland
  
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  Liechtenstein
  
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  Luxembourg
  
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  Monaco
  
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  Netherlands
  
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  Switzerland
  
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  United Kingdom
  

Western European and Others Group
The Western European and Others Group is one of several unofficial Regional Groups in the United Nations that act as voting blocs and negotiation forums. Regional voting blocs were formed in 1961 to encourage voting to various UN bodies from different regional groups. The European members of the group are:

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  Andorra
  
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  Austria
  
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  Belgium
  
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  Denmark
  
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  Finland
  
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  France
  
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  Germany
  
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  Greece
  
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  Iceland
  
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  Ireland
  
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  Italy
  
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  Liechtenstein
  
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  Luxembourg
  
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  Malta
  
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  Monaco
  
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  Netherlands
  
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  Norway
  
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  Portugal
  
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  San Marino
  
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  Spain
  
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  Sweden
  
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  Switzerland
  
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  Turkey
  
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  United Kingdom
  

In addition, Australia, Canada, Israel and New Zealand are members of the group, with the United States as observer.
Population
Using the CIA classification strictly would give the following calculation of Western Europe's population. All figures based on the projections for 2018 by the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.