Why is France so centralized and Germany so decentralized?

French monarchy vs HRE

Germany is more densely populated and urbanized. This isn't necessarily corelated to de/centralization. It is for France and Germany but not for all countries. One can also compared Denmark or the Netherlands to Slovakia or Lithuania.

Because "France" is just Paris ruling over other provinces that were conquered by force. Germany wanted to unite.

Take a guess

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Define "relevant"

more like this ivan

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let's start by fixing those borders

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B-but, Austria is not a part of Germany?

REEEEeeeeee they speak a dialect (south bavarian) that makes them different from Germany that definitely doesn't have dialects reeeeeee

Economically, culturally, and politically influential. Paris seems to be the center of everything in France so it definitely seems to me to be its most relevant part.

The Kingdom of Prussia contained most of the population and industry of Germany and it was a single state. Germany has always been horribly unbalanced with its regions, with huge powerful states and tiny irrelevant ones.

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dare I say based?

Holy based and Elsaß-Lothringen pilled

Unser Land indeed

Barak allahu fik

the Alsacien being based as always

Most importantly, both.
Along with other divisions.

Not when they were part of the HRE, no, that was Austria

>alsacien

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Elsässer, please.

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Didn't you try that already?

Yes let's bring in more land for Paris to populate with migrants and destroy the local culture.

Your average frenchman is convinced that centralism is the ONLY way to keep a country united and strong. Disregard successful federal countries like Germany, the US, etc. adding some elements of federalism to France would necessarily turn us into Spain on steroids.

i was talking about the modern era when industry was a relevant thing. Which is why I said "Germany has always been horribly unbalanced".

it would seem that you are mistaken, it's the french who are desperately trying once again, but it is clear that as always, we shall come back to our ancestral Fatherland

imagine living in the french countryside... must be very comfy

The US has states as large as France. and federalism isn't a guarantee of success.

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today it isn't so unbalanced
also, in the Weimar Republic there was a proposal to create more evenly sized and powerful federal states, but that was rejected

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>wanted to unite
proof

so Prussia was still by far the most powerful and influential state
although contrary to what you might think at first Prussia wasn't what brought the Nazis to power, in fact it was governed by democratic parties throughout the interwar period and there was a coup d'etat in Prussia which transferred all its power to the federal chancellor just before the Nazis got to power

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