Floods in Southeastern Germany... what is it anyway?

Southeast Germany consists of...

  • Silesia

    Votes: 1 7.1%
  • Saxony

    Votes: 6 42.9%
  • Thuringia

    Votes: 5 35.7%
  • Bavaria

    Votes: 11 78.6%
  • Austria

    Votes: 6 42.9%
  • Sudetenland

    Votes: 2 14.3%
  • Bohemia and Moravia

    Votes: 1 7.1%
  • Only an autobahn Kattowitz-Wien, but nothing else.

    Votes: 2 14.3%

  • Total voters
    14
Once again after 2002, there's a Genoa low over Central Europe with dire consequences. Affected areas are in Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Thuringia, Saxony, Austria, Czech Republic, southeasern parts of Poland, not to mention the downriver neighbors... yep, the southeastern parts of the Reich are under water. But First German Television News "Tagesschau" only says "Flood catastrophe in Southern and Eastern Germany".

Southeastern Germany is a very ambiguous term, so ambiguous that only Mother Nature can make it a label, only whenever Czechia-bordering Germany is under water. I've thought about this poll for a long time, but only now I see an opportunity to ask this question without being seen as politically incorrect. D'oh.

What's more southeastern? The East of the South or the South of the East? What is Southeastern Germany?
 
Saxony is definitely South East Germany. Thuringia a kind of, but more Central Germany. Bavaria is beneath the Weißwurstäquator, meaning South, but not South East.
 
Bavaria's the only really obvious one. The last ones and Silesia are politically charged to say the least (not to mention that I don't see even a Silesia in a Germany with Silesia as being anywhere near the Southeast).

Still, if we have Thuringia, why not Baden-Wurttemburg? Well, Wurttemburg, maybe. Baden is pretty definitely southwest.
 
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