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by trasz 2019 days ago
The term "Central Europe" makes sense when talking about stuff common to Central Europe, in particular Germany. Otherwise, the term you want here is Eastern Europe.

And yes, there is this particular kind of people who feel offended by this. Largely the same people who get offended by gay marriage. Why should we care?

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No the term has a various definitions, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Europe the person

people might get offended because you are wrong.

It doesn't. The map in the infobox sums it up pretty well. Poland is both Eastern Europe and Central Europe, but there's no point in using the latter term when describing something that doesn't apply to all of Central Europe.