Westeros map is Ireland turned upside down

[@tian3305]

The Wall is protecting humanity from its worst threat, the Scotts

[@readbetweenthebarz8328]

some real wildlings up there...

[@sarbo2335]

The Wights are actually black tar heroin users

[@keeganwise2598]

Yk what’s crazy the Roman’s actually built a wall to keep the picts out of Britannia

[@king_fisherXX]

*Bagpipes intensify*

[@junglebogged32]

The wall you are talking about actually existed, it was called the Hadrian's Wall

[@walterbackgammon8436]

>hey guys look at this crazy map
>covers 3/4 of map with face for entire video

[@MrDuck797]

Here’s what I think each region’s real life counterparts are:
The North: Northern England, so obvious. The Wall is the Wall of Hadrien.
The Vale: Switzerland (the Alps more in general), very high and usually snowy mountains, Gulltown I guess could be a bit like Genoa being a port city.
The Riverlands: A mix of Ireland and Germany, contains fertile fields, lots of redheads, and even some of the accents that make it Irish. Harrenhal also sounds very German.
The Westerlands: Obvious south England inspiration. Not much to go over here, English lords commonly beared sigils of lions.
The Iron Islands: Scandinavia, Denmark in particular. Ironborn are most like Vikings. They love the sea, raid and pillage all they want, and don’t get along at all with other regions.
The Reach: France. Religion is prominent here, knighthood is commonly practiced, and, of course, wine.
The Stormlands: Mix of Wales and Germany. Harsh storms, but also many misty forests that encompass the parts of southern Germany.
Dorne: Moorish Spain, except if they converted to Catholicism and didn’t try to invade everyone. Here, dry deserts are common.
King’s Landing: Constantinople. Most people see it as London, but geographically, it makes much more sense as the City of Constantine.
Dragonstone: Normandy. Both William the Bastard and Aegon the Conquerer sailed from their respective holdings to conquer the entire land. Also, both were used as the holding to the heir, until of course John Lackland lost Normandy to the French and Wales replaced it.
Now some bonus cities in Essos
Braavos: Venice. Their whole power is based entirely on the Iron Bank, and it was built by refugees.
Volantis: I see this most as India. It is humid, very populous, and elephants and tigers were two organizations in Volantis, the two animals together could really only be found in India.
Valyria: Rome. Once ruled half of Essos, then lost it in the blink of an eye. I think the particular fall of Valyria could be more comparable to the legendary Atlantis as well as Pompeii.
Qarth: Carthage. It’s kind of obvious when literally the first part of that is their name. Qarth praises themselves as the greatest city ever.
Yi Ti: China and Japan, two eastern giants slowly awakening were largely unnoticed by the western world and only came to contact with them through trade.
Dothraki Sea: Mongolia. The Dothraki are the Mongols. They love horses and enjoy raiding and pillaging random villages. However, the Dothraki do it just because they want to, and the Mongols wanted to conquer the Song.

[@logancarlile8895]

The North is based more off of northern England than it is Scotland

[@MrDuck797]

@@logancarlile8895 you’re right, my bad. Winterfell is inspired by York

[@jacobc874]

I think the far north, beyond the wall, is much more like Scandinavia instead of the iron islands, culturally and location wise the free folk are more like the northmen and pre-slavic nords

[@MrDuck797]

@@jacobc874 I see your point. Would you see the Ironborn as the more advanced Scandinavians whilst the Free Folk are the more primitive?

[@GeldtheGelded]

The dothraki are more like the turkic peoples that migrated west from altai mountains, similar to the dothraki migrating from the bone mountains, in asoiaf there's also the jogos nhai, which are a steppe folk that live north of yi ti, similar to the mongols and china in our time

[@sheealex04]

George did say that a lot of the inspiration for The Wall came from Hadrian's Wall.

[@blazergamer6425]

The Romans used to send their unwanted to guard that Wall too so I see where he got the idea for the Nights Watch.

[@jochem420]

Yea because a lot of the Game of Thrones story is based on 'the war of Roses' from medieval England, they even had their own red wedding

[@behurastudio]

I love that George even admitted to this in a funny interview lmao

[@madman4955]

The Blackwater is a river lake/river surrounding Dublin, the capital of Ireland

[@markbrennan212]

That's the Liffey, the Blackwater is a main river in County Cork

[@tarlochansingh620]

Should I tell him?

[@devon_lettuce_tomato8637]

I just laughed hard as hell but I’m not sure if it’s at the message of your intentions🤣

[@fameasser123]

Huh interesting how Ireland matches up with the Vale like that. I always thought Dorne was supposed to be the lower southwest arm of England and that Wales looked like the Stormlands

[@giovanninudo903]

I thought it was always just a reversed england

[@markbrennan212]

Well the Stormlands is Connacht which is pretty accurate for weather comparison and the shape/placement in the map

[@LilySaintSin]

Yeah, before the UK was thing, there were 7 independent kingdoms.

[@derekclinton9438]

Lannisport is in approximately the same location as Dublin.

[@avenpreston2001]

its by old town upside down

[@jasonvazquez8652]

Honestly, I always felt that the Eurropean countries that matched up most with Westeros went like this,
1.) The North: Russia/Scottland
2.) Riverlands: Poland
3.) Vale: Switerland
4.) Westerlands: England
5.) Reach: France
6.) Stormlands: Germany
7.) Dorne: Spain
8.) Iron Islands: Scandinavia
9.) The Wall: Hadrain's Wall
10.) Land's beyond the wall: Scottish Highlands

[@Sullzyy]

I live in County Kerry, the exact region that the Vale is based on 👌🏻

[@pedrosabino8751]

The North is mirrored Great Britain, its eastern part looks Wales and the western part looks East Anglia

[@Heebrohamma246]

He copied Tolkein's idea of making his world main story take place in a mimic of England.

[@Grant-gk5mw]

Did everyone not know this. It's obvious that it's Britain.

[@TerRowle-ut2ns]

As drawn by a chimp maybe. The only part that’s obvious is south Westeros as Ireland.

[@yellowbudd9344]

Yes we knew this. Old regurgitated news. The North is also Great Britain mirrored, not just placed on top of Ireland.

[@raskolnikov7049]

Beyond The Wall: Scotland (kinda, only because of geographical location)
The North: Northern England (kinda because geographical location, but any cold country fits)
Iron Islands: Viking countries
Riverlands: Ireland (kinda, similiar-ish cultures)
The Vale: Switzerland (again kinda, but The Vale was neutral in TWO5K, so that's a similiarity)
Westerlands: Southern England and maybe northern Germany/The Netherlands
The Reach: France, Italy, Spain and Portugal
Crownlands: Southern England (Terrain fits and London is there)
Storms End:Southern England (Next to sea and terrain is mostly the same as with the Crownlands. Could also be Germany, but in a different way than what the Westerlands are)
Dorne: Spain, Arabia (There's no real culture really all that similiar to Dornish)
GRRM definetly took heavy influence from history, but not that much. It's not easy to say what is what.

[@DeeN4sty]

Yeah we knew. George mentioned it in an interview.

[@GuffGuffGuffy]

You had to flip England around for it to match the westeros map lol

[@DawnKing]

THANKS CAPTAIN OBVIOUS

[@thetaikonaut8397]

Jon Arryn: I chose rebellion.

[@cherylbaxter8986]

The Fingers

[@paulrasche7559]

Cool, learned something new again

[@G9projects]

you gotta flip great britain horizontally

[@davienonwilliams]

Oh so you’re saying Scottish people are wildlings? 👁️👄👁️

[@hasnainrazzaq9736]

I’m pretty sure George said something like that once lol

[@jonny-b4954]

Well yeah. The entire thing is based off Britains history

[@elbruno3515]

even though the north reminds me starkly of the jutland region near copenhagen in denmark

[@vendetta8022]

There are more.
Sevrn kingdoms represent the real seven kingdoms in history. The Lannister is in the west with mines, irl Hwicce is in the west and have mines too.
The wall represent the real wall Roman built.
The wildlings are basically scots or vikings and it is funny that theu actually find a redhead to act wildlings, and redhead is a symbol of Celtics.
Aegan the conqueror is basically William the conqueror.
Kingslanding is basically London.
And there are so many more.
GOT universe is heavily influenced by irl British history.

[@loganm8631]

Wait until you hear about the War of the Roses

[@RiverSprite30]

And Asshai is India. 🤣 Or Sri Lanka, as sea levels rose, the city of Asshai defied the oceans and formed what is now Sri Lanka. 🤣 Fun idea. 🤣

[@dalj4362]

The show is loosely based on British history. So google says. War of the Roses etc

[@Gswankin]

The that’s exactly what it is and Ofcourse for copyright purposes or other purposes they can to change it up a little bit and make it look a bit different

[@verihimthered2418]

Dude this entire series is a copyright violation

[@avenpreston2001]

i would say the north are like the Norse (no vikings wernt berserk raiders they had proper armys)

[@danielfaraoanu9515]

The Dorne: Spain or Greece
The Reach: France
The Stormlands: Wales
The Westerlands: England
The Vale: Switzerland
The Riverlands: Germany
The Iron Islands: Norway
The Crownlands: London
The North: Finland
Beyond the Wall: Scotland

[@Angron_Of_Nuceria]

Martin has already explained this and broken it down for us, you were close but not q
quite right

[@verihimthered2418]

The story is stolen from emperor barbarossa to, grr is kinda a hack

[@BeerBellyBerserker]

And Westeros is a city in Sweden spelled Västerås

[@tyrrejm5824]

looks like a kid just learnt how to use paint

[@Morrisseyyy]

Yeah I forgot the famous deserts of ulster

[@not_averge]

No, that's not scotland

[@srb9608]

Westeros is Balkanized upside down Great Britain

[@giraytube]

essos like anatolia current turkey armenia azerbaijan georgia

[@duggy5725]

So what ur saying is that its ireland and a deformed Britain

[@marcopolo2418]

Except England is flipped. Lol The map of this world isn't even original. Lol

[@IcarodaSilva45]

Por um erro

[@Alikk784]

well thats just lazy

[@thomasbrennan1038]

It’s just smart

[@HarveyCostello-pw2pr]

Westeros is England
The North is Scotland
Iron Islands is Ireland
Darthraki are Viking
Volantis is Atlantis

[@danielfaraoanu9515]

The North is Sweden, Beyond the Wall is Scotland

[@uzaidgurjee4798]

@@danielfaraoanu9515😂😂😂 the north is not Sweden it’s based of York and they have northern English accents

[@danielfaraoanu9515]

@@uzaidgurjee4798 I know. But I didnt want both the North and Beyond the wall to be Scotland

[@Vanillagorilla1529]

How is iron Islands irish?