The Honey Encyclopaedia is an ongoing project. It started with the discovery of honey types in Romania, after which the surrounding countries followed, and it was eventually extended to the whole European Continent and then to other parts of the Globe.

In each honey type file, we have indicated the geo-climatic area in which we discovered it. We have also indicated the country, to make it easier to localize.

However, we have to keep in mind that countries are political conventions that do not overlap geo-climatic zones. A country, especially a large one, may belong to one or several geo-climatic zones. This is why we will find, in this encyclopaedia, countries that belong to more than one geo-climatic zones.

At this stage of the encyclopaedia’s development, we are proposing 17 major geographical areas, in relation to the flora found in them, and the types of honey identified. Some areas are more precisely defined geo-climatically (such as Europe), others more generally, but, as the encyclopaedia develops, we will redefine other areas more precisely.

So, the zones that appear in the encyclopaedia at the moment are the following:

– Eastern, Central and Western Europe – encompasses the temperate-continental part of Europe, from East to West;

– Mediterranean Basin – includes both the European part, much of the Middle East, and North Africa;

– Atlantic Europe and Macaronesia – covers Western France, the British Isles and the islands of the Macaronesian Archipelago;

– Northern Europe – includes the Baltic States, the Scandinavian Peninsula, Denmark, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands;

– Russia;

– Central Asia;

– West Asia;

– Indian Subcontinent;

– Southeast Asia;

– East Asia;

– Australia and New Zealand;

– Arabian Peninsula;

– Africa;

– Central America;

– South America;

– North America;

– the islands of the Globe, which have a high degree of endemism.