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=== Members === | === Members === | ||
[[Image:World_Organization_of_the_Scout_Movement-European_Region.svg|thumb|Jurisdiction of the European Scout Region; Andorra, with no Scouting organization, and those outside the Region, are in grey]] | [[Image:World_Organization_of_the_Scout_Movement-European_Region.svg|thumb|Jurisdiction of the European Scout Region; Andorra, with no Scouting organization, and those outside the Region, are in grey]] | ||
The European Scout Region comprises 40 National Scout Organizations that are members of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, and services [[Scouting]] in [[Western Europe|Western]] and [[Central Europe]], excluding the former Soviet Republics of [[Armenia]], [[Azerbaijan]], Belarus, [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], [[Moldova]], [[Russia]], and Ukraine, but inclusive of | The European Scout Region comprises 40 National Scout Organizations that are members of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, and services [[Scouting]] in [[Western Europe|Western]] and [[Central Europe]], excluding the former Soviet Republics of [[Armenia]], [[Azerbaijan]], Belarus, [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], [[Moldova]], [[Russia]], and Ukraine, but inclusive of Cyprus (technically not part of [[Europe]]) and [[Turkey]] (which spans across two continents), for cultural reasons, and [[Israel]] for political ones. | ||
All the formerly Communist states of [[Central Europe|Central]] and [[Eastern Europe]] and the Soviet Union have developed or are developing Scouting in the wake of the renaissance in the region. These include [[Albania]], Bulgaria, [[East Germany]], Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the successor states to [[Czechoslovakia]], Yugoslavia and the [[Baltic countries|Baltic nations]] independent of the former Soviet Union. Of these, Poland, the [[Czech Republic]] and Hungary have been most successful in regrowing their Scout movements and are very well-developed, thanks in part to the existence of [[Scouts-in-Exile]] movements for the diaspora of each nation. | All the formerly Communist states of [[Central Europe|Central]] and [[Eastern Europe]] and the Soviet Union have developed or are developing Scouting in the wake of the renaissance in the region. These include [[Albania]], Bulgaria, [[East Germany]], Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the successor states to [[Czechoslovakia]], Yugoslavia and the [[Baltic countries|Baltic nations]] independent of the former Soviet Union. Of these, Poland, the [[Czech Republic]] and Hungary have been most successful in regrowing their Scout movements and are very well-developed, thanks in part to the existence of [[Scouts-in-Exile]] movements for the diaspora of each nation. | ||