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Looking at the map in F&A, we can see that the equator runs through the southern part of Maztica (just below the published map), through the northern portion of Zakhara, and through the southern reaches of Kara-Tur. It falls a little south of Nimbral (I think that's Nimbral) and well south of Chult.

Abeir-Toril, according to every published source, is roughly equivalent in size to Earth. However, part of what determines the size of the tropics and the intensity of the seasons is whether or not it has the same axial tilt. Since there are very definite summers and winters, I'd say the axial tilt is the same or perhaps even a little greater (23.5-25 degrees, as a ballpark guess).

Note also, from the same map, that even including Maztica we've only seen about a third of the surface area of Toril. There's a LOT of room for more lands to explore, to the west of Maztica and/or the east of Kara-Tur (as well as to the south of everything).

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Originally posted by Cleric Generic

Upon seeing this topic, I 'shopped a google map of europe over the FR map (will upload once I've wrestled photobucket into submission).

Yeah, Feerun is big. You can just about fit Poland into Thay, the British Isles are just about swallowed up by Anauroch (and are about the size of the Moonshaes), Turkey is outweighed by the Shaar, the High Forest is just a smidge bigger than Ireland, Calimshan covers more or less the same area as Spain and Portugal, and the Chultan Peninsula goes damn near from Morocco to Egypt.

Note: For humanitarian reasons, I feel I must inform you that I've used the 4e map for this comparison, and hope that doing so will not cause any undue distress :p

EDIT: aaand here it is! http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p215/TheVoiceOfReason311/EuroComp.jpg

EDIT 2: And here's one with all Toril and Earth, using the excellent work of Markustay and (for both of them) Wizards of the Coast and Google (credit where credit is due, and all that!) http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p215/TheVoiceOfReason311/WorldComp.jpg

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EDIT 2: And here's one with all Toril and Earth, using the excellent work of Markustay and (for both of them) Wizards of the Coast and Google (credit where credit is due, and all that!) http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p215/TheVoiceOfReason311/WorldComp.jpg

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Originally posted by Cleric Generic

Ama Basin, I believe, is discussed in the old Kara Tur book(s), but beyond that I know little. Sages greater than I will no doubt have a more useful answer!

Alsom what did the maps prove?

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I have done some approximations on a typical map of Faerun. Faerun up to the Plains of Purple dust and the Great Ice Sea is about the same size as Europe up to the Ural mountains, Caspian Sea, the Plateau of Iran and including the Mediterranean Sea.

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EDIT 2: And here's one with all Toril and Earth, using the excellent work of Markustay and (for both of them) Wizards of the Coast and Google (credit where credit is due, and all that!) http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p215/TheVoiceOfReason311/WorldComp.jpg

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Thanks for this very much Cleric. I have been hoping for something like this for a while. Now the next thing that would be great in Realms geography would be a Globe (or 2, one post and one pre spellplague), complete with bumps for mountain ranges like an earth globe.

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Ama Basin, I believe, is discussed in the old Kara Tur book(s), but beyond that I know little. Sages greater than I will no doubt have a more useful answer!

Alsom what did the maps prove?

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That I was right about the size of Faerun. Jorkens said I was not.

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I have done some approximations on a typical map of Faerun. Faerun up to the Plains of Purple dust and the Great Ice Sea is about the same size as Europe up to the Ural mountains, Caspian Sea, the Plateau of Iran and including the Mediterranean Sea.

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While Europe appears smaller on your map than Faerun, your European map does not include Scandinavia.

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Originally posted by Gray Richardson

Excerpted from Ed Greenwood's post in his thread of 31 Dec 2004:

"So (bearing in mind that I can’t speak officially for Wizards), we’re agreed on Toril having a 12 percent larger diameter than Earth (therefore 8,880 miles or 14,280 km). I vote for the same gravity as Earth, so Toril must be about 90% as dense as Earth. I can live with that (as you say, we can assume divine tinkering with the availability of metals).
Adjust the latitude of all base calculations by 1.009, and I agree with your personal choice of 8.1 daylight Midwinter hours for Silverymoon and the axial tilt that results (28°53')."

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