If you are like me a keep restarting games until you get 5 or 6 neighbors an alternative is to map edit your starting location. It is much quicker than restarting 5 or 6 times until you like your starting province.
It is a simple command:
#specstart <nation no.> <province no.>
You can simply insert it at the top of the MAP file using notepad if you don't have a text editor.