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Blue Banana, the Glossary

The Blue Banana, also known as the European Megalopolis or the Liverpool–Milan Axis, is a discontinuous corridor of urbanization in Western and Central Europe, with a population of around 100 million.^[1]

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Alsace

Alsace (Low Alemannic German/Alsatian: Elsàss ˈɛlsɑs; German: Elsass (German spelling before 1996: Elsaß.) ˈɛlzas ⓘ; Latin: Alsatia) is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland.

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Anglo-Scottish border

The Anglo-Scottish border is an internal border of the United Kingdom separating Scotland and England which runs for 96 miles (154 km) between Marshall Meadows Bay on the east coast and the Solway Firth in the west.

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Barcelona

Barcelona is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain.

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Basel

Basel, also known as Basle,Bâle; Basilea; Basileia; other Basilea.

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Belt and Road Initiative

--> The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI or B&R), known in China as the One Belt One Road and sometimes referred to as the New Silk Road, is a global infrastructure development strategy adopted by the Chinese government in 2013 to invest in more than 150 countries and international organizations.

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Benelux

The Benelux Union (Benelux Unie; Union Benelux; Benelux-Unioun) or Benelux is a politico-economic union and formal international intergovernmental cooperation of three neighbouring states in Western Europe: Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. Blue Banana and Benelux are economic regions of Europe.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.

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Blue-collar worker

A blue-collar worker is a working class person who performs manual labor or skilled trades.

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Brussels

Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium.

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Burgundian Circle

The Burgundian Circle (Burgundischer Kreis, Bourgondische Kreits, Cercle de Bourgogne) was an Imperial Circle of the Holy Roman Empire created in 1512 and significantly enlarged in 1548.

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Central Europe

Central Europe is a geographical region of Europe between Eastern, Southern, Western and Northern Europe.

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Demographics of Europe

Figures for the population of Europe vary according to the particular definition of Europe's boundaries.

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Empty diagonal

The empty diagonal (diagonale du vide) is a band of low-density population that stretches from the French department of the Landes in the southwest to the Meuse in the northeast.

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European Commission

The European Commission (EC) is the primary executive arm of the European Union (EU).

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Flag of Europe

The flag of Europe or European flag consists of twelve golden stars forming a circle on a blue field.

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Four Motors for Europe

The Four Motors for Europe is a transnational, interregional network of four highly industrialized and research-oriented regions in Europe.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Genoa

Genoa (Genova,; Zêna) is a city in and the capital of the Italian region of Liguria, and the sixth-largest city in Italy.

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Golden Banana

The Golden Banana or Sun Belt is an area of higher population density lying between Cartagena in the west and Genoa in the east along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Blue Banana and Golden Banana are economic regions of Europe, geographical neologisms and urban studies and planning terminology.

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Greater London

Greater London is the administrative area of London, which is coterminous with the London region.

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Hamburg

Hamburg (Hamborg), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,.

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History of Burgundy

The history of Burgundy stretches back to the times when the region was inhabited in turn by Celts, Romans (Gallo-Romans), and in the 5th century, the Roman allies the Burgundians, a Germanic people perhaps originating in Bornholm (Baltic Sea), who settled there and established the Kingdom of the Burgundians.

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Huguenots

The Huguenots were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed (Calvinist) tradition of Protestantism.

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Intereconomics

Intereconomics – Review of European Economic Policy is a bimonthly journal covering economic and social policy issues in Europe or affecting Europe.

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Kingdom of Burgundy

Kingdom of Burgundy was a name given to various states located in Western Europe during the Middle Ages.

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Le Nouvel Obs

Le Nouvel Obs, previously known as L'Obs (2014–2024), Le Nouvel Observateur (1964–2014), France-Observateur (1954–1964), L'Observateur aujourd'hui (1953–1954), and L'Observateur politique, économique et littéraire (1950–1953), is a weekly French news magazine.

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List of EU metropolitan areas by GDP

A metropolitan area's gross domestic product, or GDP, is one of several measures of the size of its economy. Blue Banana and List of EU metropolitan areas by GDP are metropolitan areas of the European Union.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Métropole Européenne de Lille

The Métropole Européenne de Lille (MEL; "European Metropolis of Lille") is the, an intercommunal structure, composed by a network of big cities (Lille, Roubaix, Tourcoing, Villeneuve d'Ascq, Armentières etc.) whose major city is the city of Lille.

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Middle Francia

Middle Francia (Francia media) was a short-lived Frankish kingdom which was created in 843 by the Treaty of Verdun after an intermittent civil war between the grandsons of Charlemagne resulted in division of the united empire.

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Midlands

The Midlands is the central part of England, bordered by Wales, Northern England, Southern England and the North Sea.

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Milan

Milan (Milano) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, and the second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome.

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Moselle (department)

Moselle is the most populous department in Lorraine, in the northeast of France, and is named after the river Moselle, a tributary of the Rhine, which flows through the western part of the department.

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Munich

Munich (München) is the capital and most populous city of the Free State of Bavaria, Germany.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.

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North West England

North West England is one of nine official regions of England and consists of the ceremonial counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside.

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Northeast megalopolis

The Northeast megalopolis, also known as the Northeast Corridor, Acela Corridor, Boston–Washington corridor, BosWash, or BosNYWash, is the world's largest megalopolis by economic output and the most populous megalopolis exclusively within the United States, with slightly over 50 million residents as of 2022.

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Northern Italy

Northern Italy (Italia settentrionale, label, label) is a geographical and cultural region in the northern part of Italy.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Prague

Prague (Praha) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia.

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Randstad

The Randstad ("Rim City" or "Edge City") is a roughly crescent- or arc-shaped conurbation in the Netherlands, that houses almost half the country's population.

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Regional policy of the European Union

The Regional Policy of the European Union (EU), also referred as Cohesion Policy, is a policy with the stated aim of improving the economic well-being of regions in the European Union and also to avoid regional disparities.

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Rhine–Alpine Corridor

The Rhine-Alpine Corridor is one of the ten priority corridors of the Trans-European Transport Network.

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Rhineland

The Rhineland (Rheinland; Rhénanie; Rijnland; Rhingland; Latinised name: Rhenania) is a loosely defined area of Western Germany along the Rhine, chiefly its middle section.

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Roger Brunet

Roger Brunet (born March 30, 1931) is a French geographer.

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Rotten Banana

The Rotten Banana (Danish: Den rådne banan) is an informal area of rural Denmark facing significant economic disparities.

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Southern Germany

Southern Germany is a region of Germany that included the areas in which Upper German dialects are spoken, which includes the stem duchies of Bavaria and Swabia in present-day Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, and the southern portion of Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate that were part of the Duchy of Franconia.

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Spanish Road

The Spanish Road (Spanish: Camino Español, German: Spanische Straße) was a military road and trade route in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, linking the Duchy of Milan, the Franche-Comté and the Spanish Netherlands, all of which were at the time territories of the Spanish Empire under the Habsburgs.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Banana

Also known as European Megalopolis, European backbone, Hot banana, Liverpool–Milan Axis.

, Turin, Urban renewal, Urbanization, Western Europe, Zurich.

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Demographics of Europe

Economic regions of Europe

Geographical neologisms

Metropolitan areas of the European Union

References