[dredmorbius]

I can't believe I forgot to mention Russia as a fragmented state (relic of the USSR). Elephant (or bear) in the room, and all that.

And whilst I'm adding commentary: the legacy of colonialism and arbitrary drawing of borders by colonial powers (the Sykes-Picot division of the Middle East in 1918, and the highly-inorganic map of Africa, which seems to be slowly rationalising though not entirely smoothly) resulted in exceptionally arbitrary borders which bear little relationship to communities and cultures on the ground.

One might make a similar argument about state borders within the United States, most especially west of the Mississippi, where straight-ruled lines ignore rivers, divides, cultural, and economic clusterings.

The weighted-Voronoi diagram "United States of Craigslist" map reveals an alternate organisation based on the nearest localised Craigslist instance:

<http://uxblog.idvsolutions.com/2011/07/chalkboard-maps-unite...>

And of course, there's how New Yorkers view the world:

<https://brilliantmaps.com/new-yorkers-world/>