848 Divisions and Territories

In fact, the administrative divisions of the eastern autonomous region of the United States have been adjusted under the strong instruction of Datang, and for Datang, administrative divisions play an important role in the development of the regional economy and other aspects. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoIn addition, the interests of the states are to the left, and there are also disputes over territory, so there are many problems in the division. Datang rezoned the eastern part of the United States based on factors such as topography, economic hinterland, and industrial structure.

Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina were not adjusted, and Virginia was divided into East Virginia and West Virginia along the midline of the Appalachian ridge. Maryland was canceled, and the west of the mountains was incorporated into West Virginia and the east was incorporated into East Virginia. The Demarwa Peninsula is no longer divided into Maryland and Delaware, but is all incorporated into Delaware. Washington, D.C., canceled and incorporated into Eastern Virginia. The northern boundary of Eastern Virginia is also no longer demarcated by parallel, but extends all the way to the Susquehanna River. The southern boundary also extends to the median line of water bodies such as Lake Kerr in the former North Carolina territory, making East Virginia completely divided by natural landmarks.

In this adjustment, Eastern Virginia has expanded in size and concentrated a very large economic advantage, and on the other hand, Virginia's economic status has never been comparable to that of New York in the north, ranking 10th among the 50 states in the United States. In Datang's planning, the East Virginia Autonomous State will obviously have better room for development and become another key area in the eastern part of the United States in addition to the New York metropolitan area.

Bounded by the Appalachian Mountains and the Delaware River, Datang integrated Pennsylvania's coastal elite, New Jersey and New York to form the new state of New Jersey. This area includes important cities such as Philadelphia and New York, which will better complete the integration of resources. It became the essence of the former American Northern Economic Belt.

Pennsylvania is the only area west of the mountains, and north of the river is the former state of New York, now renamed Sarato. These two landlocked states have clearly lost the advantages of the economically developed coastal areas, but the small but troublesome Appalachian Mountains have made the economic integration of these inland areas with the coastal economic belt poor. Today, it mainly relies on the Great Lakes, but the positioning is clearer.

The western part of the Great Lakes is a province directly under the Tang Dynasty, which is one less layer of vest than the autonomous region of the United States. The province of Wisconsin (Wisconsin) completely occupies the land west of the St. Mary's River, unlike the other plane in which Wisconsin and Michigan were divided.

The northeastern states of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont were merged by the Tang Dynasty to form the new Massachusetts Autonomous State. As for Maine, which is sparsely populated, undulating and has relatively little development potential, it was directly merged by Datang with New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, which belong to Canada, to form a larger Maine. A good thing for the UK is that the profits and taxes of European immigrants in Maine also belong to the UK, but there are actually no tens of thousands of European immigrants here.

In contrast, the uninhabited Labrador and the ice and snow areas of Northern Quebec are directly included in the Tang Arctic territory. Ontario's jurisdiction remained unchanged, mainly along the Great Lakes, and the other part of the north-central and western regions had long since been sold to the Tang people.

Datang also bought Saint Pierre and Miquelon from the French and Newfoundland from Denmark, and without exception, the main means of payment for these two land purchases were industrial products, and Datang did not make him pay cash. France and Denmark are also more practical, rather than robbing Datang himself after he has hated Datang, it is better to get what he can get at this time.

In this way, except for some islands in the Caribbean Sea, Datang completely controls the entire North American region, and the land of North America alone is more than 24 million square kilometers. Together with the Asia-Pacific region (Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia and Oceania), it has a land area of 31.44 million square kilometers. The sum of these two parts is more than one-third of the Earth's land area.

In addition, Datang also has three overseas territories in South Asia, three overseas territories in West Asia and North Africa, two overseas territories in Europe, and two overseas territories in sub-Saharan Africa. Some of these overseas territories are very difficult to identify, such as the Carthaginian overseas territory of North Africa, which Datang has just begun to operate, but according to the consistent style of the colonists, no one will be surprised even if Datang has been claiming the entire Sahara Desert, and the actual control area is very limited. Therefore, Datang does not take the initiative to announce the specific area of its overseas territory, which is left to be resolved later.

The situation is the same in South Africa, where the operators of Datang have advanced from the southern coast to the north, and have entered some areas of Zimbabwe and Angola, but the actual level of control is also relatively low, so the real area is not easy to say.

Even more nonsense is the 12.39 million square kilometers of the Antarctic continent, the Tang explorer Chen Beifeng arrived at the South Pole in 1799, and planted a Tang flag on the ice sheet, since then the Tang Dynasty declared Antarctica to be owned by the Tang Dynasty, and established a scientific research station here in 1802. This territorial claim was eventually recognized by most countries, of course, there is no way to agree with it, it is difficult for them to go to Antarctica, and it seems that it is useless to go. Many Europeans understand the Tang people's paranoia about the land, and simply think: If you like the land, you can play with it yourself, anyway, such a big lump of ice is worthless, just be happy.

Therefore, the territorial area of Datang is basically an imaginary number now, and people are too lazy to mention the so-called territorial area of Datang, because Datang does not know when it has added another piece of land, especially for middle school students who go to school, they will basically not have a question in the geography test, asking how big is the area of our country, because maybe the next second they write down the answer, the accurate answer will change. So at this time, when someone mentions the size of the country, people may use the description of "the earth's land area is near/more than half", or "tens of millions of square kilometers".

The Tang Dynasty still has a tendency to expand territorially, one is to expand from North Africa to the Sahara Desert, from South Africa to the north, the second is to expand from East and West Asia to Central Asia, and the third is to occupy the whole of Siberia. In other aspects, Datang has no special ambition, of course, the above four expansion directions have covered a huge area of land. These three pieces of land have one characteristic: relatively high development costs, abundant resources, and relatively small short-term development potential. Therefore, the acquisition of these territories is not a priority, but only the acquisition of these areas can be used as a reserve for the future living space of the people. (To be continued.) )