What Set the irregular Country borders and Why are they not straight lines/more uniform shapes?
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Geography and history.
Geography like rivers, lakes, ridges, forests, roads etc.
History like “This city was never reconquered after the separation of half of the country and as such its borders with the cities on the other side of the conflict are now its country borders.”
Quite often country borders follow the path of the river, or others may follow the ridge lines of the mountains that separate two countries. Take a look at the borders between Switzerland and Italy for example.
A lot of the straight line borders on the Middle East have caused problems ever since. After WW1 the Ottoman Empire was divided up by the Allies, particularly the plan drawn up by Woodrow Wilson. Lines drawn on a map ignored the traditional tribal and nomadic geography. We still live with some of the consequences.
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