How Balkan are the Balkans?
There is quite famously no official definition of the Balkans, and the rather pejorative association that the term has collected through the grim historical vagaries 20th and 21st century has caused the location to be quite contested.
As a fun exercise, I have collated sixteen unique maps that all depict, in their own way, 'the Balkans'.
Some purport to be neutral geographical descriptions (such as the WorldAtlas one, or what you can find on Google Maps). I have also snuck in the actual literal definition of the Balkan mountain range. Other included maps have an explicitly ideological goal (such as a Croatian map showing Croatia conspicuously out of the Balkans).
Others, such as a map of the Balkan Open Initiative Members, or a map of the participating countries in the Balkan Games, do not claim to provide definitions at all, but do represent something meaningful about identity (note: Israel, not pictured, is for some reason a participant).
Others are historical, such as an Austro-Hungarian ethnic map, or an eighteenth century German map of the region. Keen Serbian geographical history nerds may be able to spot the outlines of Jovan Cvijić's original ethnographic map of the Balkans which notably excluded islands and anything north of the Danube.
So what do we get when we combine these all together?
A fascinating Balkan heatmap. Enjoy!
EDIT: One small error - Bucharest should be listed at 44%