Leave the name like it is - you abbreviated Switz. and Azer. too (sorry, I was tired last night and i didn't look that good).
I usually prefer not to abbreviate things, but for such small territories it might only make it worse not to i guess.
As for "the spike"
if you look here
http://tudorhistory.org/maps/europe.jpg, you can see that at the bottem right part of the netherlands there is a small region going "into belgium"
it might look unimportant, but on your map without it, it looks really weird to me, as if i dont recognize my own country =/
(Maybe you shouldnt extend the bottom of the country, but cut in some of the rest of the bottom, so that its some more horizontal. So more like this:
___
. . . |
)
And i dont really know what to do with the ocean and the dark blue region. Cause i really like all of your colours, each colour is perfect on its own, but somehow there is too little contrast between them, and putting them together kind of ruines their perfectness if you get what i mean
Maybe there just shouldn't be a darkblue region (the lighter blue region is fine)
Also, the minimap might use a larger border. Or maybe no border at all, but just a "normal territory border" on the territories, leaving the minimap-ocean the same as the not-minimap-ocean.
P.S. I forgot to say so, but i like the map!
Leave the name like it is - you abbreviated Switz. and Azer. too (sorry, I was tired last night and i didn't look that good).
I usually prefer not to abbreviate things, but for such small territories it might only make it worse not to i guess.
As for "the spike"
if you look here http://tudorhistory.org/maps/europe.jpg, you can see that at the bottem right part of the netherlands there is a small region going "into belgium"
it might look unimportant, but on your map without it, it looks really weird to me, as if i dont recognize my own country =/
(Maybe you shouldnt extend the bottom of the country, but cut in some of the rest of the bottom, so that its some more horizontal. So more like this:
___
. . . |
)
And i dont really know what to do with the ocean and the dark blue region. Cause i really like all of your colours, each colour is perfect on its own, but somehow there is too little contrast between them, and putting them together kind of ruines their perfectness if you get what i mean :)
Maybe there just shouldn't be a darkblue region (the lighter blue region is fine)
Also, the minimap might use a larger border. Or maybe no border at all, but just a "normal territory border" on the territories, leaving the minimap-ocean the same as the not-minimap-ocean.
P.S. I forgot to say so, but i like the map!
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