Not the map, but a mechanism from the game.
I got this idea from World 2.1, one of my favorite maps, but some area's (particularly Greece) are a bit hard to see.
In A&A however, really small territories which had boxes around the edge where you could put your forces.
So my question is this, could a map maker place the circle that denotes the number of armies in a similar bos, with the location name, but where it doesn't obscure the geography?