Latvia being as small as it is probably wouldn't benefit from getting even smaller (even if Daugavpils is the laughing stock of the country and it might as well be a Russian city).
I'm guessing bigger countries are more complicated. Maybe you wish to gain independence?
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UK here – I have no skin in the game as I grew up in Scotland, but I think we (the UK) would have saved ourselves a lot of trouble if we didn’t have N.Ireland.
Even Russia wants to gain land instead of losing it, so idk if wanting to lose some land is a thing
No, I like all parts of The Netherlands. The only thing I think would be better if the Caribbean parts of the kingdom would be completely on their own.
Apart from that, there might be some people on the edges of the country who sometimes mesmerize about aging independence or join another country. Like Frisians or Limbourgians.
Not really, but as another poster said Northern Ireland has been a source of trouble for decades. It would also be trouble if it were part of Ireland, so there’s no good solution.
Personally, I have no parts of the country I wish they were not part of Romania. Teleorman county seems almost useless, but I would not eliminate it. Just merge it with a richer area or anything that would help them move a little bit on.
If you ask a Transylvanian, then many hate southern Romania with passion and look with pity at Moldavians (eastern Romania). However, even this is changing slowly as the population of Romania mingled a lot from a regional perspective in the past 10-15 years. I myself have a Transylvanian wife and I know many cases of Transylvanian-Moldavian couples, as well as a couple with the man from Constanța (Dobrudja, far-east) and the wife from Timișoara (Banat, far-west).
Kaunas- Rude, snobbish, stuck up people, who, mostly, think they’re better than anyone else, Indian-like traffic, pedestrian style of walking- people there will legit go through the tightest of gaps and will almost always try to walk through others. The city might as well be a Mordor clay, at this point, considering how big of a Soviet culture there still is- and some people even seem to be proud of it there XD
No. Germany is good the way it is.
We lost a lot of territory in the 20th century. That’s sad but it’s gone for good.
No willingness to redraw the borders in Europe.
Sensible answer: It would make sense for NI to join on to Ireland and some point. It almost feels inevitable that it will happen one day, and Brexit has turned the border and trade issue there in to a total mess.
Silly answer: As someone who lives in London, is very pro-EU, and enjoys good beer, I’d be all in favour of London being towed across the sea and attached to Belgium instead.
I like everywhere in Scotland honestly, so I can’t say I want to give any part up at all. I hear a lot of people joking about Edinburgh being English though
French here. I think we have absolutely no business still having islands in the Caribbean / Indian Ocean / Pacific. Situation in New-Caledonia, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte does not scream “well managed French department” either. They suffer from under investment, high prices, corruption, violence, imposition of a colonial mentality… and I’m not sure being stuck with France will ever help them.
Clacton On Sea!
Any place that elects Farage is not a good place.
Yes.
Our capital, the mere fact of that city exists is seriously impairing the development of the rest of the country. It was also turned into a tourist playground and that led some “bright minds” (as bright as the light of the incoming train while in a tunnel) to stop investing in anything that isn’t “tourism related”.
No, I like all of them, even though my region is clearly superior to them in every aspect 😛
Obviously I would like them to improve and carry more weight in the state management, but I don’t think they’d improve as independent countries.
Bitola, if it would sink, my country would have a beautiful doughnut shape.
Norway here, and yes, we could do without southeastern Norway, Oslo and down on both sides of the Oslo fjord.
It’s a joke category that one of France’s departments is in the Americas. (france guyana)
No, but the hills of Bilogora and that whole area around Bjelovar could disappear tommorow and it would probably take weeks before anybody would notice.
Urk, they want nothing to do with us, and we are not very fond of them either, or at least they are a laughingstock. They try to be so secluded that, through continuous intermarriage, they now have their own disease: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Buchem_disease
French here. I wish the southeast and deep north of my country weren’t French, just so the far right wouldn’t have so many votes.
I like all parts of Poland, while some areas have more conservative people who keep voting for PiS, they are still poles and politics are not everything so i would definitely not kick them out.
No.
**If I have to choose** ‘Sudetenland’, probably, as it’s underdeveloped. But we would also lose ‘mountains’ and most of our natural sights and resources.
No, but I’d wish “shared sovereignity” was a thing. This would solve many disputes over border territories between two countries. But to make it realistically acceptable for both countries there would need to be compensation for the country losing “exclusive sovereignity” over that territory, a compensation in form of shared sovereignity over another piece of territory of equal size/population, this time owned by the country making the request. In other words: Country A wants territory X from Country B> Country B accepts that territory X is part of both countries, under the condition that territory Y from Country A is also part of both countries. Random example: Austria wants Italian Tyrol? Austrian Tyrol and Italian Tyrol become one Tyrol region under joint sovereignity of Italy and Austria, so that the whole territory is part of both countries.
I’m italian and we should have never annexed South Tyrol. They are not italian and never will. If one day they held a referendum and vote either to be independent or to join Austria (obviously only if Austria want to as well) i would not complain.
No. Gotta keep those fixed borders we’ve had for centuries.
Ostrobotnia aka the bible belt of Finland. They have fundamental christian cults, antivaxxers and other weirdos.
It’s our west coast so I wouldn’t miss them if a flood of biblical portions would swipe them away…
Estonian
I quess a lot of us wouldn’t mind giving city of Narva to Russia if we could get the rest of Setomaa back.
Narva was our city, but was bombed to ruins during second world war and rebuilt during soviet time basically from scratch. Thank to that only 4% of population is Estonian.
Setomaa is culturally very distinct region, currently divided between Estonia and Russia. Families are divided up because of that. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pechorsky_District
No. The current borders of Finland are cut from all sides to begin with. The World War II border basically cut straight through Finnish territory proper, even severing railway lines and other transport links. As a comparison, it’d be like Mexico took more than half of California from the U.S. and did nothing useful with it, just keeping it as a military buffer zone, and of course, removing the population. The border with Sweden was drawn similarly so that the local Finnish population ended up on both sides of the border. They drew the border line in the Tornio river for military reasons, but both sides of the river valley were ethnically Finnish. In the north, the border with Norway was less irregular, because generally it’s actually that way that Finnish-speakers live on the Finnish side and Norwegians on the Norwegian side – but not entirely. North Norway is surprisingly multiethnic, with a Finnish minority.
The only case for which some sort of independence could be considered is the Åland Islands, which are ethnically Swedish. However, this is militarily impossible, because an enemy naval power on the islands could set up an embargo that would essentially prevent almost all Finnish foreign trade in goods. The bulk of goods imported and exported are transported by ship, and Åland can be used to control the entry point to both the Gulf of Finland and Gulf of Bothnia, where Finnish harbors are. So, the current solution – ethnic autonomy – is despite its failings the least bad solution.
If i had to choose any part of Poland to be removed it would be Varmia and Masuria (because of that ugly african border with Królewiec)
I’m from Alsace (the French region bordering Germany) and a lot of people here would like us to become independent (there’s even a party for that called Elsass Frei) since we have a culture that’s closest to Germany than France due to our history. I’ve also heard some people say that ideally, we would form a great country with Baden-Wurttemberg and German Switzerland (although I’m not sure about that last one).
The government should drown the [Noordoostpolder](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noordoostpolder) to turn Urk into an island again and give them independence
Lots of people want Greenland and the Faroe Islands to leave because of their complaining. I think they’re amazing places and make us more interesting as a whole, but the current situation of them having one foot in Denmark and one outside is becoming more and more problematic, as they’re continuously trying to push the boundaries for the self-rule arrangement. They don’t go for independence but instead use Denmark as the big bad wolf, which is really annoying by now.
So as much as I love them, if they don’t want to “behave” as part of Denmark, then please leave and we all can be friends.
If only looking at what would be best for the regions themselves, then Scania, Blekinge and southern Halland would be better off with Denmark, Jämtland-Härjedalen would be better off with Norway (due to their connection with Trondheim), and the mostly Finnish-speaking Tornedalen (Torne Valley) along the Finnish border would be better off with Finland.
Losing these regions would of course have highly negative consequences for the rest of Sweden though.
Re-unite Ireland. And carve off the most brexity elements of Essex and Kent
On the far northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia we have a region called Sápmi (sami country) where indigenous people called Sami live. I’m not Sami myself, but the way this people have been treated over hundreds of years is just disgusting. I wish they could have their very own country and rebuild what we destroyed, like their traditional way of life and old languages that are extinct or near-extinct.
No, even if Narva is a bit of a cesspool and a completely Russian city, we obviously cannot cede Narva to Russia because it is on our side of the Narva River that is a great natural barrier they wouldn’t be able to just simply cross with tanks at any time (the bridges would be blown up and the rest is largely impenetrable marshy terrain). They would gain a second front to march unhindered towards our capital if we allowed them to establish on this side of the border river.
Czechia… Ostravsko. Apologize to Poland and give back.
Not sure if this exactly fits the question since they aren’t exactly fully part of the country proper (it’s complicated), but we should let Greenland and the Faroe Islands have their independence already. Greenland because they want to and deserve it after all the shit we did to them, Faroes because their whale-killing, gay-marriage-opposing ways make us look bad.
Yes. Madrid, a less centralised Spain would be much better
Sometimes I wonder why Åland Islands are Finnish. A peace treaty gave the islands to Finland, despite being totally Swedish speaking, and having a stronger bont towards Sweden.
Today they are almost an autonomy, have their own parliament, no military service and island is demilitarized, finns from mainland can not own property unless strict criteria is met, islanders don’t have to study Finnish and so on.
Some sports teams even choose to play for Swedish leagues.
I wouldn’t care if the UK shedded some of those tax haven territories. Not the Fawklands or Gibraltar though, for trolling purposes
For Spain: the current concept of Madrid, being the capital of Spain and a black hole of the Castilla population and the resources of the whole country.
For Catalonia: I wouldn’t mind if Vall d’Aran was given back to Spain from an independent Catalonia, if they wish so
I wish my country wasn’t part of a country controlled by another country.