How big is the Discworld Universum?
Do any dimensions appears in the books?
For example, if we extrapolate dimensions of Ankh-Morpork to get Disk radius and based on this calculate size of 4 elephants and turtle.
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Do any dimensions appears in the books?
For example, if we extrapolate dimensions of Ankh-Morpork to get Disk radius and based on this calculate size of 4 elephants and turtle.
Circumference: 30,000 miles (ish)
"Ten thousands of miles. I just patrol this length.”
“That’s a third of the way around the disc!”
The Colour of Magic
As you can see from this top-down map from the Discworld Mappe Atlas, Great A'Tuin isn't dramatically wider or longer than the Disc's 9,549 mile diameter.
The area of the disk is approx 71,619,724 Miles2 which is slightly bigger than the pacific ocean.
Land area calculations for the Discworld continents can be found at Aleph Zero Heroes. The page uses Green's Theorem to calculate the areas of the continents from a contour integral around the edge of the maps (the full map appears on GitHub).
Compared to the total Discworld area of 78.5 million sq miles. The calculation presumes a 10,000 mile diameter which is a little different from the calculation above, but an often quoted diameter.