Northwestern Europe

Northwestern, or northwest Europe is the loosely defined northwestern region of Europe. The phrase is defined both geographically and ethnographically.

Geographic definitions

Geographically, northwestern Europe usually consists of Ireland, Great Britain, Belgium, the Netherlands, northern Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Iceland.Luxembourg, northern France,southern Germany, and Switzerland are also usually considered part of the grouping.Austria is also sometimes defined as northwestern Europe, though less frequently.Southern France is not regarded as northwestern, and it is usually geographically and culturally considered part of the Mediterranean region or southern Europe. Due to its geographically eastern position and unique status as a Finnic language country, Finland is geographically and culturally excluded from northwestern Europe. Similarly, the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, although considered part of northern Europe, are excluded due to their geographically eastern positions and connections to the rest of Eastern Europe. The term is helpful when discussing issues of climate or biology.

North-West Europe Campaign of 1944–1945

North-West Europe Campaign of 1944–1945 is a battle honour earned by regiments in the Commonwealth forces during the Second World War.

It refers to the land campaign starting with the landings in Normandy and ended with Field Marshal Montgomery taking the German military surrender of all German forces in the Netherlands, Northwest Germany and Denmark on Lüneburg Heath in Northwest Germany. The campaign was conducted by Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force, of which the British 21st Army Group was a component, along with the American 12th and 6th Army Groups. Together, the three army groups comprised the Allied effort on the Western Front which at its longest stretched from the North Sea to Switzerland.

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