AHC: Make YOUR country bigger and otherwise change nothing

In 1975 Cabo Verde and São Tomé e Principe vote to stay in Portugal with the same Autonomous Region status that Açores and Madeira got.
 
Grodno is a provincial center of Belarus, which is somewhat distinct from the rest of the country, so it would certainly change Belarus significantly. Also Poland would have a sizeable Belarussian minority.


You think that New Zealand having a large colony thousands of kilometers would change nothing?


This would be a rather significant change actually (unless you mean only those Kuril islands that Japan claims) since Japan would continue controlling the whole outlet of the Okhotsk Sea towards the open Pacific Ocean.


This leaves Slovenia without sea access and has Italy retain a large and restive Croatian minority. It's a significant change.


Whole countries getting annexed is obviously not a case of changing nothing.


This happened in OTL and was never recognized. The effect of annexing more countries would bring even more diplomatic problems to South Africa. To say nothing of the natural resources in Namibia or Botswana,the potential effects on ethnic demography or disputes with the new neighbors of South Africa.


Again, whole countries being part of another country is definitely not changing nothing. Panama being de-facto divided in two and not controlling it's main source of income is hardly an insignificant change either.
Slovenia was a part of Yugoslavia so keeping the Adriatic coast negates "no sea access."

Japan keeping the Kurils wouldn't exactly mean anything until decades later after rebuilding their economy following WWII (and I highly doubt they're bringing Russia much control in the region).

Senegambia was a nation that eventually split. Them staying together would, at best, have a positive economic effect. Unlikely they turn into a regional hegemon or drastically alter West Africa.
 
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The War of 1812 ends with a partial British victory, and Canada gets Upper Maine, Watertown, the American side of the Niagara River, Port Huron, Michigan's Upper Peninsula and all of Minnesota north of Duluth. Pretty minor territories really so nothing changes much.
 
I don’t get this thread, any attempt at significantly enlarging a country would have butterflies through the world.

That really is the point, it's making fun of the poorly done alt history maps you see every once in a while that basically makes one country huge but doesn't take in consideration what other changes it would bring.
 
The obvious choice for me is Britain claiming more, or in fact all, of Antarctica. Leopoldo Amery went a bit funny when serving as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1923 and decided it would be a good idea to paint the continent red on the map, simply find someone influential enough who gets it into their head a bit earlier around the turn of the century that it's a good idea and go from there.

France would probably be willing to recognise British claims as part of the Entente Cordiale, likewise Russia with the Anglo-Russian Convention, Australia and New Zealand can easily be convinced to sign over any claims they might have, Argentina and Chile are a touch harder but considering that Britain is at her zenith not impossible to sort out. Other countries like Germany can be forced to recognise Britiain's claims as part of the Treaty of Versailles or similar peace treaties after the Great War. Norway would remain the challenge though. Even without Norway's claims that would still be roughly an extra 5.9 million square miles of territory added.
 
Jordan manages to hold on to the lower Negev desert during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and somehow keep the West Bank and Gaza. Anything extra requires...

Hold on a minute, got a better PoD

Hashemite Union (Arab Federation b/w Iraq and Jordan) stays strong and manages to put down the coup.
 

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The War of 1812 ends with a partial British victory, and Canada gets Upper Maine, Watertown, the American side of the Niagara River, Port Huron, Michigan's Upper Peninsula and all of Minnesota north of Duluth. Pretty minor territories really so nothing changes much.
Minor territories?
Other than the enormous amounts of iron ore that just switched to the Canadian side of the border in the UP of Michigan and in Minnesota’s Mesabi range. Completely minor to the industrial development of the US in general and the creation of super wealthy individuals such as Rockefellers, Carnegie and JP Morgan.
 
OP's criterion was not "change literally nothing," which would make this challenge impossible.
Easy.

The United States conquers Antartica from the Pengiun Theocracy.

Nothing changes in the entire globe.
I don’t get this thread, any attempt at significantly enlarging a country would have butterflies through the world.

I guess the best way would be to have Antarctica claim be recognised, so countries like Chile or the U.K. have additional territory, but it could be done with minimal butterflies

Sadly, someone beat me to the idea.
 
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