Atlantic Coastline of Europe. (Photo by Eliot Elisofon//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images). Copyright: Time & Life Pictures

Atlantic Europe is a geographical and anthropological term for the western portion of Europe which borders the Atlantic Ocean . The term may refer to the idea of Atlantic Europe as a cultural unit and/or as an biogeographical region .
It comprises the western (Atlantic) part of Iberia (Spain and Portugal), north and western France , Ireland , the United Kingdom , Iceland , the Low Countries , north Germany and Scandinavia .
Weather and overall physical conditions are relatively similar along this area (with the exception of parts of Scandinavia and the Baltic ), resulting in similar landscapes with common endemic plant and animal species. From a strictly physical point of view most of the Atlantic European shoreline can be considered a single biogeographical region . Physical geographers label this biogeographical area as the European Atlantic Domain , part of the Euro-Siberian botanic region .

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