I guess this map doesn't count Edinburgh, Cardiff or Belfast as capital cities
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The five microstates (Andorra, Monaco, Liechtenstein, San Marino, Vatican) are wreaking havoc in south-central Europe.
Vatican, not really because it's surrounded by another national capital.
Vienna and Bratislava are creating an interesting effect too.
The Vatican being in the center of another countries capital city shouldn't have any influence.
Yet, it seems that it does.
Yeah, but it's distance to the city centre, not distance to the city, which makes a huge difference when one city is in another city. Would you say you're closer to the Vatican than Rome when you're in Rome, but closer to the centre of the Vatican than to the centre of Rome?
The true size of russia
Why is northern Italy so weird?
I get that the horizontal line north of Rome is halfway to San Marino, but the western line doesn't seem halfway to Monaco, it's right next/in Rome ... ? Is that somehow Vatican?
Can anyone make an overlay with the capitals used for this map pinpointed?
Iceland chose their capital really well!
I feel like those lines are way too straight to be proper proximities to a point.
It's a form of Voronoi diagram. If you color based on the closest point, the boundaries will akways be straight lines:

Just take 2 circles and do the same the resulting image will also have a perfectly straight line.
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