Mike Scott
Aug 28, 2017 · 1 min read

Westeros’s cities aren’t “fairly close together” at all. It’s quite the opposite. I live near the real-life mediaeval city of Canterbury. Dover is about twenty miles in one direction, and Rochester is about thirty miles in the other direction. London is only about sixty miles away. In other words, in the real world mediaeval cities that were genuinely “fairly close together” were not much further apart than adjacent castles along the Wall (including all the ones that are now unoccupied), and there should be many hundreds of them dotted over the more fertile areas of Westeros. King’s Landing and Oldtown may be big, but they seem to be the only big cities on a continent that’s larger than Europe.

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