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.
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France and Italy share a lot of cultural features… and pairing them isn’t a particularly common thing. Thank you for spotlighting the population distribution of these countries but I don’t get the premise
France is an old country. It’s economy and political power are based in Paris for centuries.
Italy unification is recent and the Roman Empire felt long ago. It let time to other cities to develop.
France on its population spreading shares the feature of the UK.