Questions from a new Dom 3 player

[Quitch]

I'll probably do something like that, but has anyone experience in telling where those crowns are supposed to be? They always overlap a province name, so I'm guessing they belong to that province?

[Edi]

They are above and to the left of the provimce. Download the Faerun 466 map and start a game on the adventure version. It has lots of VPs defined in the map file, so you can see how it works. The link is in my sig.