Why is the US divided into so many states?

it just seems unnecessary.
Imagine if there were only 4 states like the timezones, Eastern State, Central State, Mountain State and Pacific State, imagine how cool was that.
Enlighten me as a non American why is your country , I am talking about the continental US here, why not just have like 4 huge states.
More similar to Australia or Canada.
Why have so many small divisions.

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because the idea is 50 different states each doing their own thing under the federal government, not the federal government dictating its laws upon efficient territories.

I can't imagine a block that included Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, West Virginia and Indiana coming to any sort of agreement with New York, Vermont, Connecticut and Massachusetts.

Why would that be cool? Pakistan is a country of 140 million people that is made up of 4 states. That's just silly. The states essentially become their own nations with how expansive of a government they need.

Ok , so forget about the timezones boyo.
Let's say it will be divided to Northeast, South, Midwest and West.

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Theyed be to large to effectivley govern. Your aware the whole country of germany can basically fit in texas right?

>bigger nations are easier to govern
The state of California has more people than Canada or Australia. Moreover these wouldn't even be nations, these would be states inside of nations. So the level of autonomy would be diminished. The reason why Canada or Australia have large provinces is because most of those countries is uninhabitable. Almost everyone in Canada lives on the US border, and almost everyone in Australia lives on the coast.

Germany is right between Montana and New Mexico in terms of size. Texas is almost two times as large. Germany only has one time zone, but it is divided into sixteen different states anyway.
The US originated as a federation of the ol' thirteen colonies, which were highly autonomous compared to today's states. Centralization vs. federalization is a huge issue in the US, in Spain, in India, and many other countries.
I personally believe federations should form from the bottom up and people should have a vote on with whom they form a commune.

I can't imagine a jurisdiction including Arizona and California working well.

Consider this, what you're basically doing is drawing arbitrary borders irrespective of culture, like Europeans did in Africa. You're trying to force people who don't get along to live under the same laws.

Fuck off

Sincerely,
New Hampshire