A and B are both good.
The Viking wrote:Greenland is a "Parliamentary democracy within a constitutional monarchy", it has a prime minister(which is not the same as the danish one), a parliamentary, was granted "home rule" in 1978, and is politically and historically closely linked to Europe(btw, if Greenland is part of the same continent as Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland then I would say that's beyond speculation rightly named the Nordic countries, not Scandinavia).
if u look on any globe, greenland is clearly part of north america and not part of the same geographical continent as the faroe islands or scandinavia (iceland is on the continental boundary). it is not part of the eu (unlike, for example, the canary islands, french guiana or martinique) and it is culturally inuit eskimo, in other words, non-european.
http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/themes/rup_en.htm
exactly the reasons given above by the viking also apply to many other territories not in the european union, such as bermuda and the netherlands antilles.
talking of the canary islands, which are part of the eu but not part of its common customs area, they are the largest group of spanish islands by both area and population (larger than the balearic islands) so, by any set of consistent criteria, if the balearic islands are a separate territory, then the canary islands have a much greater claim to be on the map than greenland does. i think it's easiest to exclude both greenland and the canary islands for the simple reason of remoteness.
http://www.spain-grancanaria.com/uk/canaries-map.html
russia, if it is reduced to one territory, ought to border both poland and lithuania since, in practice, it is completely free to move its troops to and from kaliningrad without hindrance.
the proposed title, europa, is too similar to the title of the current europe map that is in play to be of use in describing the differences. i suggest that u suffix it with the year (depending on which balkan countries u choose to include), for example europa 2007 or europa 2005, to make it clear that the map is a snapshot of europe at a particular date, which saves people complaining that u've missed out this or that balkan country by mistake or worse, because of political bias.
ian.
