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I'm pretty sure I have a general idea of what cores are but could you tell me. Also, how can you tell which provinces are your cores and how does it benefit you?
 

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I'm pretty sure I have a general idea of what cores are but could you tell me. Also, how can you tell which provinces are your cores and how does it benefit you?
Your core provinces are those provinces that in the political map shows your shield above them.
They give you Permanent CB against the country that owns them. Also, annexing those prov gives you less BB.
 

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But seriously, cores are a rough approximation of the land holdings of your nation at its peak, or lands which it could be reasonably said to have a cultural or historic claim to. You can tell which ones are your cores by going into the political map and looking for provinces that have little shields on them that look like your nation's flag.

Cores, in most cases I believe, give you a permenant CB on any other nation that possesses them, and in most cases cost you less BB when you claim them in wars. Honestly I'm not entirely sure, but hopefully that helps.
 

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In addition to what others have said for version 1.09:

You can get more census tax from cores, aways if your centralization is less than full. Also cores have less war exhaustion. For the same amount of modified base tax, in core provinces, you are able to recruit twice as many men or build twice as many ships (but one ship is the minimum if there is any modified base tax at all).