Atlantic fringe:

Mediterranean:

The Carpatho-Alpine-West plain climax:

East plain and Caucasus:

Map of European ethnic culture areas. Based on the map of the Encyclopedia Britannica (1994-2005), s.v. "Europe > The people > Cultural patterns > Culture groups"[1]

The primary European groups of the map have been associated by ethnographers into some 21 culture areas. The grouping is based primarily on similarities of language and territorial proximity. Although individuals within a primary group generally are aware of their cultural bonds, the various groups within an ethnographic culture area do not necessarily share any self-recognition of their affinities to one another. This is particularly true in the Balkan culture area. Peoples in the Scandinavian and German culture areas, by contrast, are much more aware of belonging to broader regional civilizations.