Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Eastern Europe is the eastern part of the European continent. There is no consensus on the precise area it covers, partly because the term has a wide range of geopolitical, geographical, cultural, and socioeconomic connotations. There are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region". A related United Nations paper adds that "every assessment of spatial identities is essentially a social and cultural construct". 

One definition describes Eastern Europe as a cultural entity: the region lying in Europe with the main characteristics consisting of Greek, Byzantine, Eastern Orthodox, Russian , and some Ottoman culture influences. Another definition was created during the Cold War and used more or less synonymously with the term "Eastern Bloc". A similar definition names the formerly communist European states outside the Soviet Union as Eastern Europe. Some historians and social scientists view such definitions as outdated or relegated, but they are still sometimes used for statistical purposes. 

Several other definitions of Eastern Europe exist today, but they often lack precision, are too general or outdated. These definitions vary both across cultures and among experts, even political scientists, as the term has a wide range of geopolitical, geographical, cultural, and socioeconomic connotations.

1. What exact area does Eastern Europe cover?
2. What is one way it is defined?
3. How many influence does that say it has?
4. How many is that?
5. When did they come up with another way to define it?
6. What does it basically have for a synonym?
7. Which former communist states are named as being Eastern Europe?
8. Are these old definitions?
9. What are definitions missing?
10. Do all political scientists agree?
11. Are there a lot of connotations to the term?
12. Where is Eastern Europe?

Numbered answers:
1. no precise area
2. a cultural entity
3. Greek, Byzantine, Eastern Orthodox, Russian , and some Ottoman culture influences
4. Five
5. during the Cold War
6. Eastern Bloc
7. states outside the Soviet Union
8. Some historians and social scientists say so
9. precision
10. no
11. yes
12. the eastern part of the European continent