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Basically, all of the best regions any nation has to offer worthy of claiming the title to undeniable tourist destination or heavily bringing tons of value around a sovereignty. Exact geographic highlights of cities, and infinitely more.
In your mind, what types of countries are highly centralized(Not having much really outside of their own capital cities), extremely decentralized(Tons Of varied must visit or live in cities, and regions everywhere all over the nation), and any extra surprising in betweens deviating outside of the original expectation of stereotypes.
Countries Of High Centralization
Denmark
Netherlands
Finland
Azerbaijan
Belarus
Kuwait
UAE
Qatar
Guyana
Uruguay
El Salvador
Nicaragua
Honduras
Belize
Estonia
Macedonia
Extreme Decentralization
France
Italy
Spain
China
USA
Australia
Brazil
Romania
Germany
Vietnam
Extra surprising in betweens deviating outside of the original expectation of stereotypes
South Korea
Japan
Taiwan
Indonesia
Poland
India
Anyone Discovering Those Global Maps Relevant To These Centralization Versus Decentralization Themes Let Us Know! My Inspiration Of This Topic Is Observing The Situation With Azerbaijan, and South Korea. People May Believe There Is Too Much Seoul, Yet Busan Is Equally Inviting. The Entire Country Is Modern. Azerbaijan Is An Emerging Alien Exotic Tourism Destination To Extreme Wonder. Yet Technically Baku right by the Caspian Sea Is Capturing A Majority Of The Attention With All Of The National Ventures. Other Than Going To The Mountains.
Not including countries with GDP (PPP) per capita below $10.000 since most of them are Centralized.
Centralized:
Panama
Suriname
Uruguay
Namibia
Ireland
Iceland
Finland
Estonia
Latvia
Belarus
Hungary
Albania
Macedonia
Jordan
Lebanon
Azerbaijan
Kuwait
Qatar
Oman
Mongolia
Decentralized:
Canada
USA
Mexico
Colombia
Ecuador
Brazil
South Africa
Algeria
Netherlands
Germany
France
Spain
Switzerland
Italy
Croatia
Bulgaria
Israel
China
Japan
Australia
Philippines is Highly Centralised - EVERYTHING is so focused on Metro Manila! Though the new president is hellbent on changing that!
I thought France is also Highly Centralised as the entire national infrastructure grid seems to be centered around Paris - just look at the way their highway and rail network is structured for example?!
Denmark is one of the most centralized countries in Europe. Almost all government institutions are located in Copenhagen. Furthermore, Copenhagen is ~ six times bigger than Aarhus, which is the next biggest city in Denmark. And Aarhus has more than twice the population of Odense.
Basically, Denmark is two cities and a handful of small-ish towns scattered throughout the Danish archipelago.
Denmark is one of the most centralized countries in Europe. Almost all government institutions are located in Copenhagen. Furthermore, Copenhagen is ~ six times bigger than Aarhus, which is the next biggest city in Denmark. And Aarhus has more than twice the population of Odense.
Basically, Denmark is two cities and a handful of small-ish towns scattered throughout the Danish archipelago.
Copenhagen is too isolated for Denmark to be centralized.
If Copenhagen was located near Odense i would agree with you.
Extra surprising in betweens deviating outside of the original expectation of stereotypes
Taiwan
Why do you find the Netherlands centralised? It's the exact opposite. Like if one needs an example of how a country is not centralised, the NL is gonna be it. The population is very spread out thanks to the flatness, the density and punctuality of the train network are amazing so it's very common for people to commute to work amongst the provinces daily (maybe except for people from Groningen as it's just ****ing far away), even in tiny cities there are efficient buses that run till midnight (and somtimes beyond), and quite frankly if you meet a Dutch person abroad and ask them where they are from in the Netherlands, they are most likely to say somewhere not Amsterdam. Those are not traits of a centralised state.
Taiwan, on the other hand, is very centralised. Taipei gets all the resources, especially the City of Taipei. Everywhere else is like rural backwater: Kaohsiung only has two metro lines and some trams, Taichung's is only currently under construction, and Tainan only has ****ty buses. These are all cities with more than 1.5 million people, but the public transportation is simply a ****ing joke. Of course the situation in real rural backwaters is even sadder.
Don't even get me started on the job opportunities. Taipei is already godawful in this regard, but the rest of the country sucks like 1000% more (except for Hsinchu where all the high/low tech-whatever crap is located, but well, there's nothing else there).
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Not including countries with GDP (PPP) per capita below $10.000 since most of them are Centralized.
Centralized:
Panama
Suriname
Uruguay
Namibia
Ireland
Iceland
Finland
Estonia
Latvia
Belarus
Hungary
Albania
Macedonia
Jordan
Lebanon
Azerbaijan
Kuwait
Qatar
Oman
Mongolia
Decentralized:
Canada
USA
Mexico
Colombia
Ecuador
Brazil
South Africa
Algeria
Netherlands
Germany
France
Spain
Switzerland
Italy
Croatia
Bulgaria
Israel
China
Japan
Australia
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Originally Posted by Davy-040
Copenhagen is too isolated for Denmark to be centralized.
If Copenhagen was located near Odense i would agree with you.
Your obsession of the economic statistical measure is quite overly arbitrary right now. Why below $10,000 per capita income? India, Georgia, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Morocco are having enough Decentralization.
What is your own specific reasoning with Bulgaria? That is the only one I actually disagree for. Exclusively because of the Black Sea around Varna tropical summer feel resort outside of Sofia? Otherwise, I agree with everything else.
Quite rare to strictly abide towards those literal terms. The Centralization Versus Decentralization ratio is usually not following the geographic heart of the country from the international borders. Only exceptions to the rule are Belarus, Latvia, Thailand.
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