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The wish of nations to have national homelands is not an irrational one. National self-determination is the spine of the international political system. After the First World War, the League of Nations and the mandate system were partially organized to bring ignorant political entities nearer to acknowledging the dream of a nation-state.
But many political entities continue to only dream of sovereignty. Below is a map of territories with strong nationalist tendencies.
According to Wikipedia, territories with strong national tendencies are somewhat more numerous.
Albania: Northern Epirus Azerbaijan: Artsakh Belgium: German-speaking Community, Flanders Community, Wallonia Bosnia and Herzegovina: Republika Srpska, Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia Czech Republic: Moravia, Czech Silesia Denmark: Bornholm, Faroe Islands Finland: Åland France: French Basque Country, Historic Brittany, Northern Catalonia, Corsica, Savoy, Occitania, Provence, Alsace, Brittany, Corsica, Alpes-Maritimes, Normandy, Savoy Georgia: Abkhazia, South Ossetia Germany: Bavaria, East Frisia, Lusatia, Rhineland, Schleswig-Holstein, Baden-Württemberg Italy: Emilia-Romagna, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Insubria, Liguria, Lombardy, Marche, Piedmont, Mezzogiorno (Southern Italy), Padania (Northern Italy), Sardinia, Sicily, South Tyrol, Tuscany, Trentino, Aosta Valley, Umbria, Veneto Kosovo: North Kosovo Lithuania: Polish National-Territorial Region Macedonia: Albanian community Moldova: Transnistria, Gagauzia, Taraclia Netherlands: Frisia, Groningen, Limburg Poland: Upper Silesia, Kashubia Romania: Székely Land Russia: Karelia, Tatarstan, Kaliningrad, Chechnya, Circassia, Karachay-Balkaria Serbia: Vojvodina, Sandžak, Kosovo Slovakia: Southern Slovakia Spain: Andalusia, Aragon, Asturias, Balearic Islands, Basque Country, Canary Islands, Cantabria, Castile, Catalonia, Galicia, León, Navarre, Valencia, Cartagena, Extremadura, Castilla–La Mancha, Murcia, Aran Valley Switzerland: Jura region Ukraine: Subcarpathian Ruthenia, Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Lugansk, Donbas, Kharkiv, Novorossia United Kingdom: Cornwall, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Shetland, Wales, Wessex, Yorkshire, Northumbria, Northern Isles, Orkney, Shetland, Na h-Eileanan Siar, Mercia, Isle of Man
