Livonia and Surroundings

Courland Centralization

Livonia

Maroon is Riga

Gray is the mainland

Blue is Osel

The Wizarding World: Three European Schools

This is how I imagine Europe to be divided in terms of education. Pink is Hogwarts, Dark Blue is Beauxbatons, and light blue is Durmstrang.

Here's the explanation: Romania and Moldova are both mostly Romance speakers - just like Portugal, Spain, France, and Italy. Belgium and Switzerland are more divided, but they are closer to either Germany or France. But since Germany doesn't have its own school (it's actually Danish, on the island of Bornholm), they two go to Beauxbatons.

Durmstrang is slightly harder. The Nordic countries are obvious - as is Bulgaria, considering that Viktor Krum originated from there. But why did the other Slavic nations make it in there? What about Germany?
Well, it's because it wouldn't be logical for the Nordic nations to attend it - while Bulgaria just randomly makes it on the list there. Bulgaria shares neither religion nor language with the Danes. the countries that are between Bulgaria and Denmark are either German or Western Slavic (Polish, Czech, Slovak, or Silesian), South Slavic (Serbian, Croatian, etc) or Uralic (Hungarian). Following such a trend, we might as well say that the rest of Eastern Europe just applies to this category, considering the rest is Eastern Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian) or Baltic (Latvian and Lithuanian) or Uralic (as mentioned before, Hungarian, but also Estonian and Finnish). Guessing things apply linguistically, Uralic would be packed in again, but we'd need an explanation for why the Baltics are excluded, but the other two Uralics aren't. That'd be more complicated, so we'd just guess they go hand in hand. But what about Eastern Slavs? Well, you have Western and Southern Slavs, so it'd make the Eastern Slavs the outliers. So we just grouped them in. (Yes, Russia is included.)