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| Jan 13, 2022 at 14:02 | comment | added | Joshua Fox | @Annatar Your answer makes the most sense as it actually addresses the question of why 5 countries "coincidentally" have this similar fact about them. Could you make an answer from this please, and ideally add details -- maps etc where we can see that areas to one side are drier and the other side are mountainous. Also, we would still have to answer -- Why was the border drawn along this one fertile corridor? Why weren't the centers of one or more countries positioned along this fertile corridor? | |
| Jan 11, 2022 at 7:50 | comment | added | Annatar | One addition: The population centers are not only limited by dry areas to the north, but also mountainous ones to the south-east. 4 of the 5 cities happen to be located right in the area between these two zones, and 2 countries stretch into the mountains instead of the steppe. | |
| Jan 9, 2022 at 18:25 | comment | added | Joshua Fox | @pere " The relation between population distribution..." Certainly. But what makes for the apparent coincidence of these five? | |
| Jan 9, 2022 at 18:24 | comment | added | Joshua Fox | @Pere "South of the area" -- of what area? Us there a well-defined area that they are to the south of, and which other potential capitals are less to the south of. | |
| Jan 9, 2022 at 11:04 | comment | added | Pere | @JoshuaFox - All five capitals are in the South of the area, not the South of its country. Actually, not exactly in the South but in the South-east, in the green part of your map. Being all capitals in the same area makes them close and therefore close to the borders that lie between them. | |
| Jan 9, 2022 at 10:59 | comment | added | Pere | @JoshuaFox - Climate and population maps show why cities are where they are. Linguistic maps show why borders are where they are. The relation between population distribution and language (and ethnic) distribution would be an interesting topic for another answer - and it would likely use more history than mine, which is mainly geographical. | |
| Jan 9, 2022 at 8:45 | comment | added | uUnwY | Good answer. You find other examples everywhere, e.g. Northern Europe (Helsinki, Stockholm, Oslo are all in the South with an enormous territory stretching to the North, London is similar to a lesser degree) or much of Africa, particularly North Africa (capitals are on the coast). | |
| Jan 9, 2022 at 7:29 | comment | added | Joshua Fox | "uneven distribution of population" Certainly. But that does not have to mean that the capital is on the edge. Each capital/urban center could control a back-country evenly distributed on all sides. | |
| Jan 9, 2022 at 7:29 | comment | added | Joshua Fox | Thank you. "population is mostly concentrated in the South of the area." That makes sense for a Canada. But here, three of the 5 are not in the south (see map.). " | |
| Jan 8, 2022 at 17:14 | history | answered | Pere | CC BY-SA 4.0 |