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I haven’t looked in the tor protocol for more than a decade but if routing was done based on traditional networking parameters (ttl distance, ping, etc) pretty sure you would end up all your nodes in your jurisdiction.
If you were using pure random, routing may involve only US (where there are a significant percentage of nodes)
Instead you can see that rarely there are two nodes in the same jurisdiction.
Years ago there were a config file mapping countries to jurisdictions and maybe that has been ditched but still I don’t buy that it is pure random or using traditional routing criteria