It’s a city-as-a-region; cities tend to be way more cosmopolitan (from cosmos: world, and polites: citizen - citizens of the world, so to speak) than any surrounding village. I bet if they had Amsterdam as region, it too would’ve been more attached to Europe.
Then again, EU and Europe tend to be conflated anyway, so these diagrams are poisoned via the well.
I’ve seen this before but what’s up with Budapest?
It’s a city-as-a-region; cities tend to be way more cosmopolitan (from cosmos: world, and polites: citizen - citizens of the world, so to speak) than any surrounding village. I bet if they had Amsterdam as region, it too would’ve been more attached to Europe.
Then again, EU and Europe tend to be conflated anyway, so these diagrams are poisoned via the well.