League description:
Westeros is one of the three known continents in the world. Most of its area is covered by the Seven Kingdoms. The two other continents that share the world in which Westeros resides. Essos, a vast continent, lies in the east across the Narrow Sea. The closest foreign nations to Westeros are the Free Cities, a collection of independent city-states along the western edge of Essos. The lands along the southern coastline, collectively called the Lands of the Summer Sea, include Ghis and the ruins of Valyria, the former home of Westeros's Targaryen kings.
To the south of Westeros lies the continent of Sothoryos. Little is known about the continent save that it is inhabited by dark-skinned people and is "jungly, plague-ridden and largely unexplored".
Westeros is long and relatively narrow, it extends from Dorne in the south, to the lands of Always Winter the far north. it's roughly equivalent in area to real life South America. However, there is a large amount of land to the far north that remains uncharted, due to the extremely cold temperatures and hostile inhabitants known as wildlings. The northern lands of Westeros are less densely populated than the south despite its roughly equivalent size. The five major cities of Westeros are, in order of size: King's Landing, Oldtown, Lannisport, Gulltown, and White Harbour.
Westeros was originally divided into several independent kingdoms before the consolidation of the War of Conquest. After this war all the regions south of the wall were united under the rule of House Targaryen into a nation that is known as the Seven Kingdoms. |