what are the best costal providence to build to max naval buildings?

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Topic.
The building topic got me thinking:
I know "anywhere" can work, but what are the best places and why?
I'm guessing poor islands, some of your poor coastline to mass produce ships , and in "bunny hops" in poor trade company Provence to keep a heavy fleet overseas.
I know full production for rich goods, trade in estuary/ICOT,forts in mountain/poor border lands, military in manpower rich same culture lands, administrative buildings to help covert/tax, but not naval.

Any suggestions for certain strategies/nations/ good strategic naval provinces anywhere in the world?

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I've sometimes built up the tier 3 along the whole coast, that adds +1 Naval force limit although to be fair once I can afford to do that (pre 1.8 at least) it's generally not much issue going WAY over force limit anyway. Other than that Naval isn't worth the micro that you're asking about IMO, so I've never really looked into it. If you don't outnumber the enemy in whatever they've got (heavies and galleys specifically), generally don't fight anyway!

If naval battles were a series of battles like on land, the answer would be different, but generally you just need to outnumber the enemy one time and you're done...
 

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Usually I build them in strategic locations, one per naval theater. Preferably poor provinces, since in richer ones I build trade/production/government buildings. This way after most battles I can repair my fleet in relatively short time.