Want to see a map of the continent of Westeros from George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire? Of course you do. Also, see how Martin's fictional continent stacks up with Europe.

I've talked about this map briefly before, but renewed discussion on the subject of the size of Westeros and the Seven Kingdoms over at SFFWorld seemed to make it a good time to revisit it. This map was created by forum-member 'Tear' over at the Cartographers' Guild:


The map shows the sheer size of the continent of Westeros: about 3,000 miles (or 1,000 leagues) from the Wall to the south coast of Dorne. The city of King's Landing is about 1,500 miles south of the Stark castle at Winterfell (the two principal locations in the first novel and also in the TV series). This other map gives an idea of the size comparison between Westeros and Europe:


The map isn't quite accurate. If the Wall was on the northernmost cape of Scandanavia the south coast would actually be around Rabat in Morocco, which is a little bigger than the comparison map shows, but it's still in the right ballpark.

From what we know, the HBO TV series title sequence will show a raven being launched from Castle Black with the camera pulling out to show the continent, briefly zooming in to show locations of interest in the first season (presumably the Eyrie, the Twins, Riverrun and King's Landing), possibly with a view to changing in future seasons (Season 2 may also highlight Pyke, Storm's End and Dragonstone, for example). I'd also hope to see some kind of interactive map on HBO's website of the kind they produced for The Pacific. Interesting to see how they handle the geography in the series (an understanding of which is helpful to visualise the distances characters and armies have to travel).

This post originally appeared on The Wertzone.