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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 | 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 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 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 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. | ||
