North Korea might be seen as ASB to a ATL person. How can half a nation be such a pain in the ass?
California.
Ha ha.
IMO, throw a dart at a map of Africa. Whatever you hit (unless it's Egypt or Morocco, or if it's a late POD, South Africa or Ethiopia) would be unlikely to exist, at least in its OTL form, in any DBWI.
I think an independent Madagascar seems plausible in a significant portion of ATLs.
east timor seems plausible as long as it's colonized by portugal and the rest of the region isn't.
That's how it happened in OTL, of course. You could say the same for most post-colonial countries, however artificial, especially in mainland Africa. I don't think that there was any particular reason (e.g., ethnic boundaries, geography) why Portugal only ruled the part of Timor that it did.
congo itself seems plausible, given the pre-existing kingdom of Kongo and the likelihood of the Congo river being controlled by a single state; that it was Belgian previously is odd.
Kongo was much smaller, located in the coastal area. The Congo Free State was a colonial artifact assembled from the territories of an unrelated assortment of ethnic groups and native governments. It certainly hasn't proved too cohesive since independence. I'm not convinced that there's that strong a case to be made that one country would normally control the entire river. It wasn't even navigable before the Europeans showed up with dynamite. The Nile and Danube, for instance, aren't ruled that way.
many of the latin american states derived from the internal boundaries of spanish america
OK. Were those boundaries arbitrary or based on geography?
As do Algeria, Tunisia and Libya; their borders are debatable (they had less Sahara) but the basic countries did exist even if they were eventually made part of or vassals of the Ottoman Empire.
east timor seems plausible as long as it's colonized by portugal and the rest of the region isn't.
congo itself seems plausible, given the pre-existing kingdom of Kongo and the likelihood of the Congo river being controlled by a single state; that it was Belgian previously is odd
many of the latin american states derived from the internal boundaries of spanish america