• Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    What’s also fun is that you often still encounter these boundaries today. Many of those splotches are now administrative districts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Districts_of_Germany

    And up until 2023, you often couldn’t travel by bus across multiple splotches without getting multiple tickets from the different regional providers. It was awful.