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lungben81 t1_j1je13d wrote

Reply to comment by ExternalSeat in France and Italy share a lot of cultural features, but people often fail to grasp how centralised France is compared to how decentralised Italy is, at least regarding population. Different historical paths, different political and social dynamics today. by iUseArchRS

Germany is in this regard very similar to Italy, both for the population distribution and the late unification.

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ExternalSeat t1_j1jlzix wrote

Meanwhile the UK has a similar population distribution to France (with London being the clear economic hegemon of the nation)

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1-trofi-1 t1_j1lft4c wrote

A country that was not invaded recently. A country that is actually a collision of 3 different states that even today try to keep their unique identities and show how different they are from the rest.

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