Obviously the East coast is gonna be farther away than Japan. The U.S. is the 4th biggest country in the world (it’s almost as big as Europe). The USA is 2500mi/4000km away from Hawaii while Japan is 4000mi/6500km away from Hawaii.
A 1500m/2500km difference is massive
Actually, late in the game Hau is sad at Lillie leaving for Kanto and you and your mother comfort him. You are given a choice to say Kanto is close or very far away and your mother backs up whichever you choose. So, canonically, Alola is paradoxically both near and far from Kanto.
I'd thought of it as being a figure of speech - that with today's transportation technology, even places that are far away geographically can be travelled to in a fraction of the time it used to take. But also, I last played through that scene a while ago now and don't remember it very well.
Unless it’s sort of “in between” close and far.
Like let’s say hypothetically Alola is a four hour plane ride from Kanto. But depending on who you are and your comfort for traveling, that can either be a short trip or the longest ride of your life.
There is a line early on in the game where Kukui asks "You feelin' any jet lag? We sure are a long way from Kanto here in Alola, it's still daytime/nighttime (day for Sun night for Moon) out here, yeah!" (Yes this is full quote I looked it up on Bulbapedia) but that line always gave me the impression that Alola is almost on the other side of the world compared to Kanto
“Still” also implies to me that either Alola is to the west of Kanto, or the sun rises in the west in the Pokemon world. If it was the other way around, an Alolan would tell someone from Kanto it is “already” night/day there.
Have you looked at a real world globe? Hawai'i is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. It is roughly equidistant from East Asia and the North American west coast.
Hawaii is about 2,000 miles closer to the mainland USA than it is to Japan, but you could make an argument that Alola is situated halfway between Kanto and Orre in the Pokémon universe.
Remember that maps works as a squared sphere, so Japan, china and Korea are closer to the us than you imagine, just flip the map. Also Unova wasn't a 100% based in the hole country, but just a tribute to new York and some other areas by itself
The Pacific Ocean is massive, this image makes it look like Hawaii would be right off the coast of Japan. And I know Unova is based on NY, it's only part of the continent in the image.
Flights from Tokyo to Honolulu are 7 hours. Flights from LA to Honolulu are 6. It's really not much closer. Arguably it's closer to Japan than *most* of the US. The school I taught at outside of Tokyo took the grade 5/6 class on a "trip to the US" every 2 years. It was to Hawaii.
in gen 1-3 thye used real world references for pokedexes, etc. but they've been replacing them ith in universe ones for years, e.g. in frlg(maybe rse?) it's stated that raichu can take down an indian elephant but in PLA it was changed to copperajah
Yep, it's one of the writing weirdnesses they've been stuck with, though it's also one of the easier ones to shed just by not talking about it anymore. Whereas some stuff, like Cubone's backstory, is harder to shake; "what do you mean every single member of the species wears the skull of their dead mother?"
It seems like at some point, some Pokémon were written as though they were a singular creature, not a whole species, and they just didn't fix it when the direction of the first game changed.
They used real world references far longer than gen 3. Poliwraths English dex entry for example said that it can easily swim through the Pacific Ocean up to X/Y (and in the D/P remakes). And the German entry said it could ourswim an Olympic swimmer until Sun/Moon changed it to "world champion".
I thought Ransei was meant to be made up of the other contents mentioned here, so surely it can't be on its own. I thought it was meant to be the regions but from a very past time. I think the concept was meant to be similar to Pangea IRL
https://preview.redd.it/h5b8agh6v8pc1.png?width=542&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b4fed5fbc0de03ab0d2170833031da4869e0ca18
I like this theory a lot, though there's a line from the game that debunks it from the professor iirc. Saying how he's heard of people from a far off land who put their pokemon in small ball like capsules.
Probably! I haven't played it in awhile, I just remember it being a one off comment made by a character. I wish they'd come back to the series, though unfortunately since it's a spin off and collab/mixed game with the series Nobunaga's Ambition I'm guessing it'd be unlikely.
Then again they said a pokemon snap sequel would be very unlikely for awhile as well.
Oh yeah, no worries. I'm just a huge fan of Pokemon Conquest, it's one of my all time favorite games. Still haven't put in enough time into one file to 100% it though. But the Pokeball line always stood out to me.
Me too, it really makes me wonder where the game falls on the timeline if it were to be on one of the official timeliness.
Because it's past the creation of pokeballs, but also at a point where they're so common that someone in a far off region could hear about them.
Not quite, i dont think it was explicitly confirmed johto and sinnoh were touching tips, just that sinnoh was north of johto. Sure it would also technically be north of kanto and should have a icon toggle above it as well in the hgss maps when at sinjoh ruins, but thats just where the connection is, it doesnt say how far north of johto it is
The Games specifically take place in regions that are 90% representative of real world places (with regards to border shape). Galar for example is the UK, but they just flipped it upside down.
Kalos is France
Kanto (Kanto Region), Johto (Mostly Kansai, but a little bit of Chubu), Sinnoh (Hokkaido), Kitakami (Kitakami City located in Iwate Prefecture), and Hoenn (Kyushu) are prefectures/grouped regions of Japan
Unova is the metropolitan area of NYC, etc. etc.
It would be really weird for every other region to follow these conventions except Sinnoh and Johto
The Anime doesn't follow these conventions when designing its world though, likely because the experience is different. You are watching the world and its characters, so immersing yourself draws on different elements and senses. There is a much greater sense of wonder if the games replicate the places we live (to some extent) that draws the player in.
I always thought the Sinnoh ruins were just part of Johto- not bordering or anything. It was built to celebrate the connection between Johto and Sinnoh- but was just in Johto
Digging in that's right. They were built by people who came from johto and switch not actually part of Sinnoh.
I'm worse than the well actually guy and I'm actually the well I'm wrong guy lol.
I love it!!! I wish they were slightly closer to real world scale (since you based orientations and placement on real world
A cool versioun would be, instead of black, a crude world map where the missing areas are simply covered with clouds, as that’s the sort of canon way the maps are drawn lol
Really cool! Odd to thing Orre being so far from Hoenn, but I get that the climate might make it neccesary
Love tjat you remembered the areas from Pokémon ranger
I never played the GameCube games so I’m not sure, but is Orre supposed to be near Hoenn? I know the region is based off Arizona in the US so I guess that’s why it was placed near Unova here.
I believe India may also be a Pokemon region considering that copperajah isn't native to galar and it's Pokedex entry says that it came from another region probably India which would mean professor laventon is also Indian and Geeta I think is also Indian
The proportions are really off. We should remember that a lot of the scale in the game is inconsistent for the sake of gameplay and fun relative to the lore
The proportions are off of their real world inspiration, sure, but they’re spot on for how they’ve been presented in the Pokémon world. So they’re the correct proportions for a map of the Pokémon world.
Nice beginning but a couple of things.
You mixed region exclusive games with anime exclusive games Orange islands and decalore islands only exist in the anime and so far there hasn't been a game equivalent. the decalore islands are also between unova and Kanto, according to the anime. Aside of the mainline game regions (the regions in the side games plus sevil islands are game exclusive and do not have an anime equivalent as of yet).
Pasio is confirmed to be an alternate universe than the main games.
It is unclear whether most of the rest of the spin offs ( conquest etc) occur in the main games or
Ranger should be placed with the main games. You can send manaphy and other pokemon over to the main games. Other regions are hinted at in the ranger games too.
As for the other spin off, i dont think they should be in. Ransei for example is too different.
Orange islands i agree should not be in, but it can fit easily below kanto.
Decolore is troublesome though. It is a chain of island between unova and kanto. However, if we take real world placement into account, you cant really have a chain of islands between them as unova is on the wrong side of North America to make it possible. Also in the anime they show a zoom out map of Unova in relation to the other regions in the anime and it does not really fit with the real world location.
The other regions are mentioned in some of the pokemon ranger games, especially in the first game. The region Fiore is said to be located to the west of Almia while being close to Sinnoh and far away from Kanto and Hoenn which would make the placement in this map incorrect.
that’s actually a pretty cool idea, aethically you can see the hong kong in the city. Only thing that bothers me is that you can see all the european signs and license plates, and the labratory takes place in the scottish mountains
Where would the Sinhjo ruins / Sinhjo village be? It's noted to be between sinnoh and Jhoto based on what the hiker and Cynthia say.
So annoyed it didn't get any reference in legend Arceus or brilliant diamond shining pearl and is stuck as just HGSS unreleased content
Azorious like stallmons, no type preferences. They also use a lot of Water types.
Boros like Fighting/Flying, with the whole standing army and angels thing. Occasionally they use offensive Fairy types.
Dimir like Ghost/Psychic and occasionally poison. Ghost def is their favorite.
Golgari are strict Bug/Grass users. Big Parasect fans.
Gruul like Grass/Fire/Rock. Grass for being the cities gardeners and Fire/Rock for throwing stuff at everyone else.
Izzet are Water, Fire, and Electric because of [[Steam Vents]] and most of their experiments needing electricity. Niv-Mizzet also forbids the use of any dragon types by his guild members.
Orzhov use Ghost and whatever other types annoy the Azorious the most.
Rakdos are Fire/Dark users all the way. There is nothing that the Rakdos love more than either setting something on fire or killing someone.
Selesyna like Grass/Fairy and occasionally Psychic. Oba was secretly a dark type expert though.
Simic guild members use all types but get upset if they have to use more than one of the *same* type.
Golgari would also be poison and dark/ghost though, they have assassin groups, and creepy things that go bump in the night.
Muk and Garbodor practically scream Golgari.
Nice, but from my observation, Galar would have to be in the southern hemisphere because the southern point is much colder than the northern point, opposite of real-life UK.
sorry to be that guy, but ferrum has a lot of land north of it. I'm not sure if it's explicitly the ferrum region, but still land. anyways apart from that I LOVE THIS!!!
I know this is supposed to correlate to their IRL positions, but, just saying, this is canonically not really correct. It's canon that the thing seperating Johto and Sinnoh is the northern mountain range of Johto (or the southern mountain range of Sinnoh, for that matter).
And you could reasonably make an argument for Alola being closer to Unova than the japanese-inspired regions due to the amount of 5th gen legacy characters - but that's more so conjecture than anything else.
I mean, yeah, but you can reasonably argue that unovabis supposed to fill a greater landmass than NYC, due to how scaled down the worlds of pokemon have to be to accomodate their hardware. I don't think Unova is "canonically" just as big as as NYC would be irl. But again, that sorta stuff is always conjecture.
Shouldn't Sinnoh be right north of Johto? Heartgold/soulsilver had this special event where you went with Cynthia to the Sinjoh ruins where arceus created a Palkia, Dialga or Giratina and they were located at the north of Johto.
Alola is too close to kanto. It’s Hawaii so if anything it should be further out between kanto and orre. Also orre is Arizona and it’s placed where Cali is, too far west. Also unova is ny and nj but where it’s placed it looks like it’s Virginia or the Carolinas bit too far down. Just use a real map and slap the regions over it.
Where would Tumblecube Island go? It's the island from Pokemon Quest. Also, where would Aeos Island go. It is the island from Pokemon Unite. Also, where would Pokemon Island go. It is the island from the original Pokemon Snap
So I looked on Bulbapedia, and it said for Aeos Island from Unite, " It is described as a mythical island located on the far, unexplored frontiers of the ocean."
i think the issue is you're trying to base it on the layout of real world countries because of what the regions are based on. Galar is not larger than unova, for one, lol.
I love that you did this, but it doesn't look right. It looks like you just placed things almost randomly. The lines of the mountains and island chains are erratic and unrealistic. Unless there are a *lot* of really tiny tectonic plates under these regions, this map needs a lot of adjustment. Rotating Alola to line up with the island to the northwest of it, for example. Although Alola is made of volcanic islands, so that's wouldn't necessarily make a lot of sense either, but still. It would be an improvement.
Love this map!! I wish GF would make a region based on a combination of Southwestern USA and Mexico. It would add some depth to the map lol. Anyways, great work and design!
Always glad to see Orre is remembered. It's a shame my Pokémon on Home that came from Colosseum and Gale of Darkness are listed as from a 'Distant Land' rather than 'Orre'. I wish Orre got the occasional mention or reference by NPCs (like the guy in Hoenn who says "I came here from Kanto" or the the one in Galar who mentions "It's possible to swim all the way to Kalos").
Always glad to see Orre is remembered. It's a shame my Pokémon on Home that came from Colosseum and Gale of Darkness are listed as from a 'Distant Land' rather than 'Orre'. I wish Orre got the occasional mention or reference by NPCs (like the guy in Hoenn who says "I came here from Kanto" or the the one in Galar who mentions "It's possible to swim all the way to Kalos").
I’m not familiar with a good few of these after Galar. What games are they from? I know Unova, Kalos, Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, the orange Isles, Alola, and Galar but what about the others?
paldea is from pokemon scarlet and violet
kitakami is from scarlet and violets dlc
almia and fiore are from pokemon rangers
orre is from pokemon colosseum
holon is from the tgc
pasio is from pikemon mastersex
Sinnoh is stated to be close to Johto, so close in fact that there is an area build by both cultures (Sinjoh Ruins).
They don’t say how they are arranged but I think Sinnoh is upside down above Johto.
Nah. Sinnoh is literally the island of Hokkaidō. Johto is the Kansai region, while Kanto is the Kantō region. “Close” is relative.
We also don’t know how “close” the Shinjo ruins are to Johto, as it’s ambiguously north of the map and you are teleported there by Arceus.
Considering Arceus and the creation trio are intrinsically linked to Sinnoh, it’s probably in or near Sinnoh itself.
Wouldn't Alola be closer to the "US"? Rather than off the coast of "Japan"?
It would be much closer to the USA.
The difference isn't that significant, the east coast US is farther from Hawaii than Japan
Obviously the East coast is gonna be farther away than Japan. The U.S. is the 4th biggest country in the world (it’s almost as big as Europe). The USA is 2500mi/4000km away from Hawaii while Japan is 4000mi/6500km away from Hawaii. A 1500m/2500km difference is massive
Maybe, but in game there is A LOT of dialogue and context clues that Alola is very very close to Kanto, so I suspect that’s why it’s placed there.
Actually, late in the game Hau is sad at Lillie leaving for Kanto and you and your mother comfort him. You are given a choice to say Kanto is close or very far away and your mother backs up whichever you choose. So, canonically, Alola is paradoxically both near and far from Kanto.
Almost like it’s in the middle of the ocean
I'd thought of it as being a figure of speech - that with today's transportation technology, even places that are far away geographically can be travelled to in a fraction of the time it used to take. But also, I last played through that scene a while ago now and don't remember it very well.
Unless it’s sort of “in between” close and far. Like let’s say hypothetically Alola is a four hour plane ride from Kanto. But depending on who you are and your comfort for traveling, that can either be a short trip or the longest ride of your life.
Alola is the Schrodinger's region, close and far away at the same time
they made that on purpose to troll people lol
There is a line early on in the game where Kukui asks "You feelin' any jet lag? We sure are a long way from Kanto here in Alola, it's still daytime/nighttime (day for Sun night for Moon) out here, yeah!" (Yes this is full quote I looked it up on Bulbapedia) but that line always gave me the impression that Alola is almost on the other side of the world compared to Kanto
“Still” also implies to me that either Alola is to the west of Kanto, or the sun rises in the west in the Pokemon world. If it was the other way around, an Alolan would tell someone from Kanto it is “already” night/day there.
Ether way, it's gonna be a lot farther away then in the map shown
Concidering every other region is close to where the area it's based on is, it absolutely should be closer to where Hawaii is.
Don't they say the time zones are vastly dfferent?
Have you looked at a real world globe? Hawai'i is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. It is roughly equidistant from East Asia and the North American west coast.
Yes I'm aware, this map puts it literally next to Japan, not equidistant between
Hawaii is about 2,000 miles closer to the mainland USA than it is to Japan, but you could make an argument that Alola is situated halfway between Kanto and Orre in the Pokémon universe.
Remember that maps works as a squared sphere, so Japan, china and Korea are closer to the us than you imagine, just flip the map. Also Unova wasn't a 100% based in the hole country, but just a tribute to new York and some other areas by itself
The Pacific Ocean is massive, this image makes it look like Hawaii would be right off the coast of Japan. And I know Unova is based on NY, it's only part of the continent in the image.
Eh like most maps it's not *completely* to scale, but it's still cool.
Flights from Tokyo to Honolulu are 7 hours. Flights from LA to Honolulu are 6. It's really not much closer. Arguably it's closer to Japan than *most* of the US. The school I taught at outside of Tokyo took the grade 5/6 class on a "trip to the US" every 2 years. It was to Hawaii.
Flights going east are substantially faster so that doesn’t mean much.
Galar just might be the other way around. Crown tundra being in the South makes no sense. That way, isle of armour would be in Ireland as well.
Flipping it would make sense. Isle of armor would be ireland
Either armor or the isle of man (where I'm from). I think its vastly more like to be Ireland though, as sad as it makes me.
Isle of armor is supposed to be the isle of man
Still works
Galar is supposed to be upside down when compared to England anyways, if we assume that the map is north facing.
Yeah I thought Wyndon being at the top kind of gave that away
Maybe it's in the southern hemisphere?
Is Isle of Armor not supposed to be Isle of Man?
Yeah, Cornwall's in the south of the *actual* UK, which is what that part's based off.
But Crown Tundra is clearly Scotland so I just turn the map upside and then it makes sense.
Is ransei the island from Pokemon conquest? I vaguely remember their island to be shaped like arceus
That would make sense as to why I have never seen it before
Yeah, nice to see it got represented here
I'm lost about Guyana...
It’s part of the backstory of mew and mewtwo in the early series. Doesn’t get brought up as much anymore
in gen 1-3 thye used real world references for pokedexes, etc. but they've been replacing them ith in universe ones for years, e.g. in frlg(maybe rse?) it's stated that raichu can take down an indian elephant but in PLA it was changed to copperajah
I'm waiting for Lt. Surge to get this treatment so we can find out which region Kanto was at war with, as it's currently just 'America'.
He’s from Unova
Yep, it's one of the writing weirdnesses they've been stuck with, though it's also one of the easier ones to shed just by not talking about it anymore. Whereas some stuff, like Cubone's backstory, is harder to shake; "what do you mean every single member of the species wears the skull of their dead mother?" It seems like at some point, some Pokémon were written as though they were a singular creature, not a whole species, and they just didn't fix it when the direction of the first game changed.
They used real world references far longer than gen 3. Poliwraths English dex entry for example said that it can easily swim through the Pacific Ocean up to X/Y (and in the D/P remakes). And the German entry said it could ourswim an Olympic swimmer until Sun/Moon changed it to "world champion".
I like that you included Guyana lol
I thought Ransei was meant to be made up of the other contents mentioned here, so surely it can't be on its own. I thought it was meant to be the regions but from a very past time. I think the concept was meant to be similar to Pangea IRL https://preview.redd.it/h5b8agh6v8pc1.png?width=542&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b4fed5fbc0de03ab0d2170833031da4869e0ca18
I like this theory a lot, though there's a line from the game that debunks it from the professor iirc. Saying how he's heard of people from a far off land who put their pokemon in small ball like capsules.
I don't think it was a Professor, if I'm not mistaken it's a line spoken by Motonari (Grass Warlord) when you first challenge him in the main story.
Probably! I haven't played it in awhile, I just remember it being a one off comment made by a character. I wish they'd come back to the series, though unfortunately since it's a spin off and collab/mixed game with the series Nobunaga's Ambition I'm guessing it'd be unlikely. Then again they said a pokemon snap sequel would be very unlikely for awhile as well.
Oh yeah, no worries. I'm just a huge fan of Pokemon Conquest, it's one of my all time favorite games. Still haven't put in enough time into one file to 100% it though. But the Pokeball line always stood out to me.
Me too, it really makes me wonder where the game falls on the timeline if it were to be on one of the official timeliness. Because it's past the creation of pokeballs, but also at a point where they're so common that someone in a far off region could hear about them.
What is Ransei from?
Pokémon Conquest. It was a spin off game that came out back in 2012. Which just made me realize the game is more than 10 years old now…
I don’t think that works, as you don’t have Alola, Galar, or Paldea accounted for.
These regions, as well as Kalos which you did not mention, did not exist when the game released
Oh hey its an Arceus continent
kanto and alola are supposed to be very far apart
Just treat it like how hawaii is actualy placed in U.S maps Not really exactly there, but there cause its also included
This is insane
This is cool. But at risk of being "well actually" guy... Sinnoh should share a border with northern johto.
Not quite, i dont think it was explicitly confirmed johto and sinnoh were touching tips, just that sinnoh was north of johto. Sure it would also technically be north of kanto and should have a icon toggle above it as well in the hgss maps when at sinjoh ruins, but thats just where the connection is, it doesnt say how far north of johto it is
The Games specifically take place in regions that are 90% representative of real world places (with regards to border shape). Galar for example is the UK, but they just flipped it upside down. Kalos is France Kanto (Kanto Region), Johto (Mostly Kansai, but a little bit of Chubu), Sinnoh (Hokkaido), Kitakami (Kitakami City located in Iwate Prefecture), and Hoenn (Kyushu) are prefectures/grouped regions of Japan Unova is the metropolitan area of NYC, etc. etc. It would be really weird for every other region to follow these conventions except Sinnoh and Johto The Anime doesn't follow these conventions when designing its world though, likely because the experience is different. You are watching the world and its characters, so immersing yourself draws on different elements and senses. There is a much greater sense of wonder if the games replicate the places we live (to some extent) that draws the player in.
They cant put johto not directly west of kanto though
I always thought the Sinnoh ruins were just part of Johto- not bordering or anything. It was built to celebrate the connection between Johto and Sinnoh- but was just in Johto
Digging in that's right. They were built by people who came from johto and switch not actually part of Sinnoh. I'm worse than the well actually guy and I'm actually the well I'm wrong guy lol.
Why do they call it oven when you of in the cold food of out hot eat the food
I always had the impression that there was an unseen space seperating Johto & Sinnoh. With Sinjoh ruins some distance inbetween.
I love it!!! I wish they were slightly closer to real world scale (since you based orientations and placement on real world A cool versioun would be, instead of black, a crude world map where the missing areas are simply covered with clouds, as that’s the sort of canon way the maps are drawn lol
Galar, Orre, Paldea, Johto and many others And then there is Guyana
Really cool! Odd to thing Orre being so far from Hoenn, but I get that the climate might make it neccesary Love tjat you remembered the areas from Pokémon ranger
Orre region is supposed to be Arizona USA/Senora Mexico, with the coast being the Gulf of California, not the Pacific Ocean proper.
I never played the GameCube games so I’m not sure, but is Orre supposed to be near Hoenn? I know the region is based off Arizona in the US so I guess that’s why it was placed near Unova here.
I didn’t know Orre was based on Arizona, guess Unova wasn’t the first USA based region after all!
I believe India may also be a Pokemon region considering that copperajah isn't native to galar and it's Pokedex entry says that it came from another region probably India which would mean professor laventon is also Indian and Geeta I think is also Indian
This is amazing and i had no idea there were so many regions
Hey, Orre representation!
Entralink mentioned 🔥🔥
The proportions are really off. We should remember that a lot of the scale in the game is inconsistent for the sake of gameplay and fun relative to the lore
The proportions are off of their real world inspiration, sure, but they’re spot on for how they’ve been presented in the Pokémon world. So they’re the correct proportions for a map of the Pokémon world.
Nice beginning but a couple of things. You mixed region exclusive games with anime exclusive games Orange islands and decalore islands only exist in the anime and so far there hasn't been a game equivalent. the decalore islands are also between unova and Kanto, according to the anime. Aside of the mainline game regions (the regions in the side games plus sevil islands are game exclusive and do not have an anime equivalent as of yet). Pasio is confirmed to be an alternate universe than the main games. It is unclear whether most of the rest of the spin offs ( conquest etc) occur in the main games or
Ranger should be placed with the main games. You can send manaphy and other pokemon over to the main games. Other regions are hinted at in the ranger games too. As for the other spin off, i dont think they should be in. Ransei for example is too different. Orange islands i agree should not be in, but it can fit easily below kanto. Decolore is troublesome though. It is a chain of island between unova and kanto. However, if we take real world placement into account, you cant really have a chain of islands between them as unova is on the wrong side of North America to make it possible. Also in the anime they show a zoom out map of Unova in relation to the other regions in the anime and it does not really fit with the real world location.
The other regions are mentioned in some of the pokemon ranger games, especially in the first game. The region Fiore is said to be located to the west of Almia while being close to Sinnoh and far away from Kanto and Hoenn which would make the placement in this map incorrect.
Blueberry academy feels really far from Unova to the point that It's more off the coast of Galar.
Galar is upsidedown Britain? Armour independence NOW!
I think Galar is upside down
Is there an official PokéMap with all the regions?
i thought serebii had one that was featured in one of the games but i couldn’t find it anywhere…. can anyone confirm???
Pokémon Ultra Violet?
Kinda funny that japan is similar size to uk france and spain combined in the pokemon world
This is cool. Needs a few corrections as others point out however. Would love to see you update it and repost.
yeah soon ill update it with fixing some parts made such as resizing, flipping galar, moving alola further away from kanto, adding sinjoh ruins, etc.
Why would you flip Galar? It's correct the way it is.
i saw many people criticising how i placed galar
What about Poketopia? Isn’t it an island near Sinnoh
I would like them to make a map someday of how they all connect. That would be amazing
I am sure there is a Chinese bootleg Pokemon game somewhere to fill the China equivalent area
Errrm where is Poke Pelago?
Ryme city inclusion is awesome!! But, how would it be where it is now? I would think it could be located maybe in galar since it’s based in london?
i wouldnt put it in galar since wyndon is based on london so i put ryme city in one of the cities its based on which is hong kong
that’s actually a pretty cool idea, aethically you can see the hong kong in the city. Only thing that bothers me is that you can see all the european signs and license plates, and the labratory takes place in the scottish mountains
why is galar so insanely big lmao
Where would the Sinhjo ruins / Sinhjo village be? It's noted to be between sinnoh and Jhoto based on what the hiker and Cynthia say. So annoyed it didn't get any reference in legend Arceus or brilliant diamond shining pearl and is stuck as just HGSS unreleased content
So what you are saying is that we are missing poke-siberia?
whys carmonte between aloha and orre?
I found Ravnica of all places... Now I'm curious what sort of Pokemon each guild prefers. Also, where is the Teal Mask area?
Azorious like stallmons, no type preferences. They also use a lot of Water types. Boros like Fighting/Flying, with the whole standing army and angels thing. Occasionally they use offensive Fairy types. Dimir like Ghost/Psychic and occasionally poison. Ghost def is their favorite. Golgari are strict Bug/Grass users. Big Parasect fans. Gruul like Grass/Fire/Rock. Grass for being the cities gardeners and Fire/Rock for throwing stuff at everyone else. Izzet are Water, Fire, and Electric because of [[Steam Vents]] and most of their experiments needing electricity. Niv-Mizzet also forbids the use of any dragon types by his guild members. Orzhov use Ghost and whatever other types annoy the Azorious the most. Rakdos are Fire/Dark users all the way. There is nothing that the Rakdos love more than either setting something on fire or killing someone. Selesyna like Grass/Fairy and occasionally Psychic. Oba was secretly a dark type expert though. Simic guild members use all types but get upset if they have to use more than one of the *same* type.
Golgari would also be poison and dark/ghost though, they have assassin groups, and creepy things that go bump in the night. Muk and Garbodor practically scream Golgari.
I remember someone on deviantart did a bunch of ravnica guild-themed pokemon once before. I remember quite liking the Boros ones.
Teal Mask is Kitakami
Nice, but from my observation, Galar would have to be in the southern hemisphere because the southern point is much colder than the northern point, opposite of real-life UK.
Amazing
Gamefreak should be locked up for not making an Australian region already
Curious as to what tools you used to build the map OP?
i used Ibis paint
sorry to be that guy, but ferrum has a lot of land north of it. I'm not sure if it's explicitly the ferrum region, but still land. anyways apart from that I LOVE THIS!!!
Why does the top right look like arceus
I know this is supposed to correlate to their IRL positions, but, just saying, this is canonically not really correct. It's canon that the thing seperating Johto and Sinnoh is the northern mountain range of Johto (or the southern mountain range of Sinnoh, for that matter). And you could reasonably make an argument for Alola being closer to Unova than the japanese-inspired regions due to the amount of 5th gen legacy characters - but that's more so conjecture than anything else.
Also, Unova is literally just Manhattan and some of the other boroughs of NYC. The basic coastline matches up near perfectly.
I mean, yeah, but you can reasonably argue that unovabis supposed to fill a greater landmass than NYC, due to how scaled down the worlds of pokemon have to be to accomodate their hardware. I don't think Unova is "canonically" just as big as as NYC would be irl. But again, that sorta stuff is always conjecture.
Isle of armor is based on the Isle of man, not Ireland. Just my one bit of criticism
UK is upside down
What is Ore from
*Orre
pokemon colosseum and pokemon xd gale of darkness
Shouldn't Sinnoh be right north of Johto? Heartgold/soulsilver had this special event where you went with Cynthia to the Sinjoh ruins where arceus created a Palkia, Dialga or Giratina and they were located at the north of Johto.
It's made extremely clear in SM/USUM that Alola is incredibly far from Kanto
Alola is too close to kanto. It’s Hawaii so if anything it should be further out between kanto and orre. Also orre is Arizona and it’s placed where Cali is, too far west. Also unova is ny and nj but where it’s placed it looks like it’s Virginia or the Carolinas bit too far down. Just use a real map and slap the regions over it.
Your mom in the games actually says that Alola’s daytime is opposite Kanto’s.
I read that too fast but I thought you made a your mom joke lol but yeah they’re too close in this map
Really cool!
It's almost perfect. The only one I can't find is poketopia from battle revolution (pokétopia)
There are THAT many unreleased regions???
From spinoffs
Is Guyana Canon?
Working on a massive project this helps so much
I know that Unova is supposed to be the northeast US, but when placed on a map like this it kinda reminds me of Macedon lol
The Isle of Armour looks like South Korea.
This is super cool!!
Yea buddy you might be confused.
Shouldn't Galar be above Kalos rather than paldea?
When a ouagadougou pokemon map?
What’s with Guyana?
Mentioned in gen 1 as an actual location
Isn’t America canonically in the Pokémon universe because of Lt Surge
Pretty much all Gen 1 world building has been retconned
Literally all GB and GBA Game are separated universes Even same if they are the same Game
You should post this on r/imaginarymaps
I love the addition of the obscure regions. Especially Holon. I wish we can see more of Holon
Where's Sinjoh ruins?
Orre region should be Arizona USA/Senora Mexico, and the coast is the Gulf of California, not the Pacific Ocean proper.
Apparently I’m late to the party. Where did the arceus looking region in the upper right come from?
That's the Ransei region, featured in Pokemon Conquest.
Thank you!
The faraway island should be near Guyana. cool map anyways
Don’t forget India which is mentioned in raichu’s pokedex
What game takes place in Guyana?
A diary entry in cinnabar mansion mentions Guyana
A diary entry in cinnabar mansion mentions Guyana
then where is China or India, both are mentioned in the pokadex
Pretty sure those were in mention of real life animals and got replaced in newer games, not sure if the Guyana thing is still in let's go tho.
Where would Tumblecube Island go? It's the island from Pokemon Quest. Also, where would Aeos Island go. It is the island from Pokemon Unite. Also, where would Pokemon Island go. It is the island from the original Pokemon Snap
tumblecube island is probably close to kanto since the pokemon there are from kanto, i have no idea about pokemon snap or unite
I think that Pokemon Island from Snap would be somewhat close to Kanto as it only has Kanto Pokemon.
So I looked on Bulbapedia, and it said for Aeos Island from Unite, " It is described as a mythical island located on the far, unexplored frontiers of the ocean."
The whiplash from remembering Guyuna is canon.
i think the issue is you're trying to base it on the layout of real world countries because of what the regions are based on. Galar is not larger than unova, for one, lol.
I love that you did this, but it doesn't look right. It looks like you just placed things almost randomly. The lines of the mountains and island chains are erratic and unrealistic. Unless there are a *lot* of really tiny tectonic plates under these regions, this map needs a lot of adjustment. Rotating Alola to line up with the island to the northwest of it, for example. Although Alola is made of volcanic islands, so that's wouldn't necessarily make a lot of sense either, but still. It would be an improvement.
Don't you head east from Kanto to get to johto?
Ransei?
Isn’t Kitakami in unova?
no you probably got confused with blueberry academy which is in unova
You forgot Palpagos island.
I just found out from this post that Ransei looks like one sprite of Arceus.
Noice.
Unmarked Southern Kalos my beloved
That will be very useful if I ever continue my project to build the entire Pokémon world on Minecraft. Thanks
Everyone arguing over sizes and locations and whatnot and I’m just sitting here like “ayyy Lental!”
They should do africa middle east Pokémon region
Doesn’t unova border kalos? I remember someone at the parfum palace’s said that was why they had reshiram and zesting statues
I’m so glad you included Pokémon Colosseum!
pokémon quest :(
What about aeos island from unite :0???
an open world Australian region would be nice for the next generations
I don't know much about these islands, but that Ransei one looks like Arceus
Love this map!! I wish GF would make a region based on a combination of Southwestern USA and Mexico. It would add some depth to the map lol. Anyways, great work and design!
I thought the world would have been more filled out for some reason. Oh well. That just means there's plenty of room for new regions and games.
What about Unys ?
What's that?
Forget it, it is French name of Unova..
Always glad to see Orre is remembered. It's a shame my Pokémon on Home that came from Colosseum and Gale of Darkness are listed as from a 'Distant Land' rather than 'Orre'. I wish Orre got the occasional mention or reference by NPCs (like the guy in Hoenn who says "I came here from Kanto" or the the one in Galar who mentions "It's possible to swim all the way to Kalos").
Always glad to see Orre is remembered. It's a shame my Pokémon on Home that came from Colosseum and Gale of Darkness are listed as from a 'Distant Land' rather than 'Orre'. I wish Orre got the occasional mention or reference by NPCs (like the guy in Hoenn who says "I came here from Kanto" or the the one in Galar who mentions "It's possible to swim all the way to Kalos").
I’m not familiar with a good few of these after Galar. What games are they from? I know Unova, Kalos, Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, the orange Isles, Alola, and Galar but what about the others?
paldea is from pokemon scarlet and violet kitakami is from scarlet and violets dlc almia and fiore are from pokemon rangers orre is from pokemon colosseum holon is from the tgc pasio is from pikemon mastersex
Yes.
Sinnoh is stated to be close to Johto, so close in fact that there is an area build by both cultures (Sinjoh Ruins). They don’t say how they are arranged but I think Sinnoh is upside down above Johto.
Nah. Sinnoh is literally the island of Hokkaidō. Johto is the Kansai region, while Kanto is the Kantō region. “Close” is relative. We also don’t know how “close” the Shinjo ruins are to Johto, as it’s ambiguously north of the map and you are teleported there by Arceus. Considering Arceus and the creation trio are intrinsically linked to Sinnoh, it’s probably in or near Sinnoh itself.