List of European regions

This list gives an overview of the European regions (also called Euregio , EuRegion or Euroregion ).

Sorting is difficult due to the cross-border nature, so this list shows the regions one after the other in counter-clockwise order.

European regions with German participation

• Fehmarnbelt region (DE, DK)

  Interreg III A of the Lübeck / Ostholstein region including Fehmarn and the Danish district of Storstrøms Amt

  Large cities in the region: Lübeck , Eutin (DE), Nykøbing Falster , Næstved (DK)

• Region Fyns Amt / KERN (DE, DK)

  Interreg III A of the Kiel region in Schleswig-Holstein and the district of Fyns Amt (German Fyn)

  Large cities in the region: Kiel (DE), Odense (DK)

• Region Sønderjylland-Schleswig (DE, DK; founded 1997)

  Cooperation between the Danish municipalities in Syddanmark Aabenraa , Sønderborg , Tønder and Haderslev and the German districts in South Schleswig-Flensburg , North Frisia and the city ​​of Flensburg , covers most of the old Duchy of Schleswig and South Jutland .

  Large cities in the region: Flensburg (DE), Sønderborg (DK)

• Euregio The Wadden / Wadden Islands (DE, DK, NL)

  North Frisian Islands (DE), Heligoland (DE), Danish Wadden Sea Islands ( DK), East Frisian Islands (DE), West Frisian Islands (NL)

• Ems Dollart Region / Eems-Dollard-Region (DE, NL; founded 1977)

  Cross-border association in the border region with members from the Dutch provinces of Friesland , Groningen and Drente , and on the German side from East Friesland , the Emsland and the Cloppenburg area

  Large cities in the region: Emden , Lingen (Ems) (DE), Groningen , Assen (NL)

• Euregio (DE, NL; founded 1958)

  Headquarters: Gronau (Westf.)

  Districts of Osnabrück and Grafschaft Bentheim , municipalities of Emsbüren, Salzbergen and Spelle, as well as the city of Osnabrück in Lower Saxony and the western Münsterland in North Rhine-Westphalia , as well as parts of the Dutch provinces of Gelderland , Overijssel and Drente

  Large cities in the region: Münster , Nordhorn , Osnabrück , Rheine (DE), Enschede , Hengelo (NL)

• Euregio Rhein-Waal / Euregio Rijn-Waal (DE, NL; founded 1973)

  Large cities in the region: Duisburg , Wesel , Kleve (DE), Nijmegen , Arnhem (NL)

• Euregio Rhein-Maas-Nord / Euregio Rijn-Maas-Noord (DE, NL; founded 1978)

  began as a voluntary cooperation association of German and Dutch municipalities in the border area between the Rhine and Maas , in 1993 renaming from the Rhine-Maas border region to euregio rhein-maas-nord , since 2004 a German-Dutch public-law special purpose association, office in Mönchengladbach

  the Euregio with the highest population density on the German-Dutch border: 1.8 million inhabitants on approx. 3,450 square kilometers

  Large cities in the region: Krefeld , Mönchengladbach , Neuss (DE), Venlo , Roermond (NL)

• Euregio Maas-Rhein / Maas-Rijn / Meuse-Rhin (DE, NL, BE; founded 1976)

  Association (Stichting) under Dutch law, consisting of today's urban region of Aachen , the districts of Düren , Euskirchen and Heinsberg ( North Rhine-Westphalia , DE), South and Central Limburg (NL), as well as the Belgian provinces of Limburg and Liège (including the German-speaking community ), a total of around 4 million inhabitants

  Big cities in the region: Aachen , Liège and Maastricht

• EuRegio SaarLorLuxRhein asbl (DE, FR, BE, LU; founded 1995)

  non-profit association under Luxembourg law (asbl); Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany, Lorraine in France, Luxembourg , the German-speaking Community of Belgium and the Province of Luxembourg in Belgium

• Upper Rhine metropolitan region
  • Eurodistrict PAMINA (DE, FR; founded 2003)

    Part of the Upper Rhine Conference

  • Upper Rhine-Middle-South / Rhin-Supérieur-Center-Sud (DE, FR)

    Part of the Upper Rhine Conference

  • with the Eurodistrict (Strasbourg-Ortenau)
  • RegioTriRhena (DE, CH, FR; founded 1995)

    South Baden , Northwestern Switzerland and Upper Alsace

    Part of the Upper Rhine Conference

  • with the (trinational) Eurodistrict Basel (TEB)
• Euregio Bodensee (DE, CH, FL, AT; founded 1997)

  Lake Constance area : southern Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria in Germany (districts of Konstanz , Sigmaringen , Bodenseekreis , Ravensburg , Lindau , Oberallgäu ), Vorarlberg in Austria, cantons of St. Gallen , Thurgau , Schaffhausen , Zurich and both Appenzell in Switzerland, and the Principality Liechtenstein

  see also International Lake Constance Conference , International Lake Constance Council

• Euregio via salina (DE, AT; founded 1997)

  Part of INTERREG III A - cooperation area Austria - Germany / Bavaria

  Kempten (Allgäu) , Oberallgäu district , Lindau , Ostallgäu district , Kleinwalsertal , Bregenzerwald , Ausserfern / Tyrol

• Euregio Zugspitze-Wetterstein-Karwendel (DE, AT; founded 1998)

  Part of INTERREG III A - cooperation area Austria - Germany / Bavaria

  • REGIO Werdenfels , REGIO Seefeld Plateau , Außerfern
• Euregio Inntal (DE, AT; founded 1998)

  Part of INTERREG III A - cooperation area Austria - Germany / Bavaria

  District and city of Rosenheim , Traunstein , Kufstein and Kitzbühel districts

• Euregio Salzburg - Berchtesgadener Land - Traunstein (DE, AT; founded 1994)

  Part of INTERREG III A - cooperation area Austria - Germany / Bavaria

  Salzburg , Berchtesgadener Land and Traunstein

• Inn-Salzach-Euregio (DE, AT; founded 1994)

  Part of INTERREG III A - cooperation area Austria - Germany / Bavaria

  German districts of Traunstein , Mühldorf , Altötting , Rottal Inn , Passau and the city of Passau

  Innviertel and northwestern Hausruckviertel in Upper Austria

• Euregio Bavarian Forest-Bohemian Forest-Mühlviertel (DE, AT, CZ; founded 1993)

  The EUREGIO Bayerischer Wald-Böhmerwald-Mühlviertel is a trilateral cooperation area. This consists of the Bavarian Euregio Bavarian Forest - Bohemian Forest - Lower Inn , the Czech Euroregion Šumava - jihozápadní Čechy and the Austrian Euregio Bavarian Forest - Bohemian Forest / Regional Management Mühlviertel . In addition to around 350 districts, cities and municipalities, numerous associations and clubs are also part of this cross-border Euregio.

• European region Danube-Vltava (DE, AT, CZ)

  The Danube-Moldau European region, founded in 2012, comprises the regions of Lower Bavaria and Upper Palatinate on the German side ; on the Austrian side Upper Austria and Lower Austria with the Waldviertel and Mostviertel . On the Czech side, the districts of Pilsen , South Bohemia and Vysočina belong to it. The name of the Danube-Moldau European region is made up of the two lifelines of the region, the Danube and Moldau rivers.

• Euregio Egrensis (DE, CZ; founded 1993)

  The region includes eastern Upper Franconia and northern Upper Palatinate in Bavaria, the Vogtland and Western Ore Mountains in Saxony, south-eastern districts in Thuringia and north-western districts in Bohemia .

• Euroregion Erzgebirge / Krušnohoří (DE, CZ; founded 1992)
• Euroregion Elbe / Labe (DE, CZ)

  The Elbe / Labe Euroregion, founded in 1992, includes the city of Dresden and the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district on the Saxon side . On the Czech side, parts of the Ústecký kraj (Ústí region), more precisely the former districts of Okres Děčín , Okres Litoměřice , Okres Teplice and Okres Ústí nad Labem belong to it.

  The name of the Euroregion Elbe / Labe is made up of the German and Czech names for the river Elbe flowing through the area of ​​the Euroregion .

• Euroregion Neisse- Nisa-Nysa (DE, CZ, PL; founded 1991)
• Euroregion Spree-Neisse-Bober / Euroregion Sprewa-Nysa-Bóbr (DE, PL; founded 1993)
• Euroregion Pro Europa Viadrina (DE, PL; founded 1993)
• Euroregion Pomerania (DE, PL, SE; founded 1995)

  DK proposed as a further partner

European regions with Swiss participation

• Euregio Bodensee (DE, CH, FL, AT)

  (see above )

• RegioTriRhena (DE, CH, FR)

  (see above )

• Regio Insubrica (CH, IT; founded 1995)
• Raetia Nova euroregion / Nova Raetia (CH, AT, IT)

European regions with Austrian participation

• Euregio Bodensee (DE, CH, FL, AT)

  (see above )

• Raetia Nova euroregion / Nova Raetia (CH, AT, IT)

  (see above )

• European region Tyrol – South Tyrol – Trentino (AT, IT; founded 1998)
• Europaregion Adria – Alpe – Pannonia (EU future region - IT, SI, AT, HR, HU, SR; founded 2002)

  The regions of Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia in Italy; all of Slovenia ; Carinthia , Styria , Burgenland in Austria; the Hungarian counties of Győr-Moson-Sopron , Somogy , Zala , Vas , Baranya , Tolna ; the Vojvodina region in Croatia and Serbia

  also includes:

  • Euregio Styria – Slovenia / Graz - Maribor (AT, SI)

    Styria , Northeast Slovenia ( Koroška regija , Podravska regija , Pomurska regija , Savinjska regija )

    Euregio West / Nyugat Pannonia euroregion (AT, HU; founded 2001)

  • Burgenland and the three western Hungarian counties Győr-Moson-Sopron , Vas , Zala (founded 1998)
• CENTROPE - Central Europe Region (AT, CZ, SK, HU; founded 2003)

  Burgenland , Lower Austria , Vienna , West Hungary , Slovak landscape associations Bratislava and Tyrnau the Czech region of South Moravia

  also includes:

  • Euregio Weinviertel-South Moravia-West Slovakia / Pomoraví-Zahorie-Weinviertel euroregion (AT, SK, CZ; founded 1997)

    Lower Austrian Weinviertel , Czech region Pomoraví , the West Slovak Záhorie

• Euroregion Silva Nortica (AT, CZ; founded 2002)

  Waldviertel in Lower Austria, Okres Jindřichův Hradec in the Czech Republic

• European region Danube-Vltava (DE, AT, CZ)

  founded in 2012 (see above )

• The EUREGIO Bavarian Forest-Bohemian Forest-Mühlviertel

  (see above )

• Inn-Salzach-Euregio (DE, AT)

  (see above )

• Euregio Salzburg - Berchtesgadener Land - Traunstein (DE, AT)

  (see above )

• Euregio Inntal (DE, AT)

  (see above )

• Euregio Zugspitze-Wetterstein-Karwendel (DE, AT)

  (see above )

• Euregio via salina (DE, AT)

  (see above )

Other European regions

• Euroregion Alpi-Mediterraneo / Alpes-Méditerranée (IT, FR; founded 2006)

  Regions of Piedmont (IT), Liguria (IT), Aosta Valley (IT), Rhône-Alpes (F) and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

• Euroregion Altvater (PL, CZ)
• Euroregion Baltic (DK, LT, PL, RUS, S)
• Beskydy Euroregion (PL, CZ, SK)
• Euroregion Białowieża Primeval Forest (PL, BY)
• Euroregion Bug (PL, BY, UA)
• Euroregion Danube-Drau-Save (BH, HR, HU)
• Euroregion Galicia-Norte (ES, PT; founded 2008)
• Euroregion Glacensis (PL, CZ)
• Euroregion Carpathians (PL, HU, SK, RO, UA; founded 1993)
• Euroregion Memel (PL, BY, LT, RU)
• Euroregion Silesia (PL, CZ)
• Euroregion Tatry (PL, SK)
• Euroregion Cieszyn Silesia (PL, CZ)
• Euroregion Danube-Kreisch-Marosch-Theiss (HU, RO, SR)
• Euroregion Thrace (BG, GR, TR; founded 2007)

Web links

• Map of European regions (Interreg III). Archived from the original on October 12, 2008 ; Retrieved August 26, 2014 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} cultural area EUREGIO Bodensee ( memento from June 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).
2. ↑ ^{a b} EUREGIO via salina
3. ↑ ^{a b} Euregio Zugspitze-Wetterstein-Karwendel
4. ↑ ^{a b} Inn-Salzach-Euregio eV (Bavaria), Inn-Salzach-Euregio / Regional Management Innviertel-Hausruck (Upper Austria)
5. ^ European region Danube-Moldau - www.europaregion.org.  
6. ↑ Euroregion Spree-Neisse-Bober
7. ↑ http://www.zukunftsregion.at/
8. ↑ gebiet.htm Euregio Styria
9. ↑ Euregio West / Nyugat Pannonia ( Memento of July 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).
10. ↑ EUREGIO Weinviertel - South Moravia - West Slovakia ( Memento from May 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
11. ↑ Euroregion Silva Nortica ( Memento from December 30, 2008 in the Internet Archive ).
12. ^ Euroregion Baltic ( Memento from June 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).