To some extent things like province names are governed by design philosophy as much as anything.
The ridings are clearly there as you say, but on principle the map tries to avoid using east/west/north/south in province names.
The nudging of cities to be as close to the names capital of a province is also generally not adhered to. The wish has often been in the past to make sure they don’t obscure province names and other things more than anything (personally I do like when they are close to the province capital, but since this can change depending on start date or actions in game it’s not always possible).
Shapes can also at times be distorted for clarity of adjacency (connections need to be clear and more than one or two pixels) or size. London has had to eat some of it surroundings for instance, distorting the region a bit.
Now that said provinces should absolutely always contain the city they are named for, and it’s fine to argue that they should be named after another constituent city than they currently are.
Adding more trade centers is always a question of balance but moving around existing ones can always be considered (and so can adding new ones but the argument needs to be made specifically for why an additional one is needed).
Tagging @neondt for consideration of suggestions in detail
The ridings are clearly there as you say, but on principle the map tries to avoid using east/west/north/south in province names.
The nudging of cities to be as close to the names capital of a province is also generally not adhered to. The wish has often been in the past to make sure they don’t obscure province names and other things more than anything (personally I do like when they are close to the province capital, but since this can change depending on start date or actions in game it’s not always possible).
Shapes can also at times be distorted for clarity of adjacency (connections need to be clear and more than one or two pixels) or size. London has had to eat some of it surroundings for instance, distorting the region a bit.
Now that said provinces should absolutely always contain the city they are named for, and it’s fine to argue that they should be named after another constituent city than they currently are.
Adding more trade centers is always a question of balance but moving around existing ones can always be considered (and so can adding new ones but the argument needs to be made specifically for why an additional one is needed).
Tagging @neondt for consideration of suggestions in detail