

Siberia (empty provinces in the area + the tribes) : 148 Central Asia (Altaic provinces west of Oirat - not included - plus Siberian, Ostyak and Turkmeni provinces) : 422 Eastern Nomads (Altaic provinces starting from Oirat, and Manchu provinces) : 445 Persia (all provinces in the Iranian culture group plus some Azerbaidjani provinces) : 473 Indochina (all provinces between India, Ming, Tibet and Malaya) : 658 If you add Filipino provinces and Taiwan (what a consistent local thalassocracy usually grabs) : 894. Indonesia (including Malayan provinces in the peninsula) : 760. Broken down in culture groups : Western Aryan 373, Dravidian 363, Hindustani 346, Eastern Aryan 331, Central Indian 62. United India (all 5 culture groups) : 1475. East Africa as a whole, from Nubia to South Africa : 564 the Arabic cultural union (Egypt + the Peninsula and the Levant) : 559 West Africa as a whole, from Mauritania to Kongo : 755 Caucasus (the culture group, plus some Azerbaidjani provinces) : 137

Yugoslavia (all Serbian and Croation cultured provinces, plus Albania) : 159 The Low Countries (all Dutch and Flemish provinces) : 222 Scandinavia (the cultural union + Finnish provinces) : 262 Tartaria (the Tatar culture group, minus provinces of Siberian cultures) : 378 the Russian heartlands (aka Russian, Karelian and Uralic provinces) : 379 Compare with continental Portugal's mere 98. Spain (Castille + Navarra + Aragon) : 387. the Ottoman or Byzantium heartlands (all Greek, Pontic and Turkish provinces, plus Cyprus and Bulgaria) : 559 the Commonwealth (grouping together al Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Prussian, Byelorussian and Ruthenian provinces) : 694 Italy (all provinces in the Italian culture group) : 708 For the full union, it's a whopping 1285, more than Ming at game start ^^ Germany (the cultural union, minus Prussian, Austrian, Swiss, Dutch and Flemish provinces) : 712. France (includes all French culture group provinces, doesn't included present day French regions like Savoy or Alsace) : 725 Here are the results if you're interested : Eventually, I had pretty much covered the entire world. The first thing I've done after having launched EU4 with the new patch and DLC was to create custom nations in order to see the total development of a number of areas, because we need to learn quickly the new standards for assessing a country's weight.
