(VOVworld) – The UN has reclassified the 3 Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania as Northern European rather than Eastern European countries.

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According to the UN, the Northern European countries are Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Eastern European countries are, according to the UN classification, Belarus, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, and Ukraine.