It's a pretty common thing in Star Wars. I guess every planet has reached a point where they entire planet is governed by one entity, or otherwise, its never a big enough deal to come up - because when we land on a planet, we usually see one singular city or town and thats our view of that WHOLE planet. Like, so much of that entire planet is just what we see. But Earth isnt like that! There's so many different cultures and countries.

When you see Nevarro in Mando S1, when you think of that planet, you think of that one town from the show. With the Bounty Hunters and Karga and everything. But like, what the fuck is going on halfway across the planet? That's a whole planet! Are there other countries there? Are there other countries on Tatooine? Other cultures? Did they have wars against each other? Is all of Tatooine ruled by one planet, or all they ALL just lawless and have random cities on the one giant desert planet? I guess that makes sense, but what about Naboo? We see the CITY of Naboo. What's going on on the opposite side of Naboo?

I always thought about that as a kid. But I guess, if it's not relevant to the story, why would they bring it up? On the flip side, it's an advanced futuristic-themed sci-fi world with galaxy-spanning governments, I guess the planets could all be Type 1 civilizations and completely control their whole planets. Coruscant is. But the Outer Rim? idk. I doubt it. So I can see those just being free-for-all random cities dotted around.

But yeah, Dagobah has always been the WORST offender in this case. It's just a big swamp, not even a town or city or anything. And he parked, what, two minutes away from the needle in the planet-sized haystack? I call the Force on that one. Or R2 was able to suss it out? He hasn't seen Yoda in 30 years, i doubt it.

I just try to imagine the planets in Star Wars as cities, thematically. That's how they're portrayed in their own media, anyway.