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Has Star Trek ever portrayed a culture/location on Earth besides North America and Europe?
In the first episode of Enterprise, Capt. Archer travels to Brazil to persuade Hoshi Sato to leave her teaching post early to join the crew of the Enterprise. She is shown teaching a language class ...
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Has Star Trek ever portrayed a culture/location on Earth besides North America and Europe?
In Voyager's first episode, "Caretaker", Janeway fetches Tom Paris from the Federation Penal Colony in New Zealand.
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How can an address refer to the "USA" if no countries exist in Star Trek?
Enterprise takes place before the formation of the Federation in 2161. It's still possible that people would identify places by the country that place was in (Paris is both a city in France and a town ...
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What is the size of Westeros?
TL;DR Version
To sum up the points below:
Westeros is roughly equal to size of South America in our world as per the author.
Essos is equal to Europe and Asia combined according to the author.
And no,...
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How can an address refer to the "USA" if no countries exist in Star Trek?
Although countries no longer had individual governments by the mid-22nd century, at least some of the landmasses were still referred to by their previous names, even as late as the 24th century.
TROI:...
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Why did Robb attack Tywin Lannister's Army at the same time as his surprise attack on Jaime?
System Down has sufficiently answered this question.
This is merely to add graphical representation to add more clarity to the situation.
Situation before the crossing
Before Robb made his ...
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Where exactly does Eragon take place?
It's a continent, bounded by ocean on the west and more land on the east, much like Europe.
Here's a map of Alagaesia:
North and south, and more importantly east and west, of this continent are all ...
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Has Star Trek ever portrayed a culture/location on Earth besides North America and Europe?
Yes, this girl in this scene.
In a flashback seen in TNG "Violations", we see Keiko Ishikawa interacting with a Japanese cup used to wash calligraphy brushes by her Obachan(grandmother). This is ...
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What is the Real Scale of the Breath of the Wild Map?
I know it’s been a while since this thread was started, but I have something to add. I am actually the author of that Reddit post you linked. (I’m glad you found it interesting.) Since then, we've ...
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How can an address refer to the "USA" if no countries exist in Star Trek?
The other answers are great in pointing out that the names of countries continue to be used even after they have ceased to become independent, sovereign nations.
In our own world, this has happened to ...
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How big is the Circumfence barrier?
Tethis (a sea troll) tells us about the Circumfence in The Colour of Magic. It's not small.
“It could be extended for a couple of miles, if you found enough rocks and things,” said the wizard.
“...
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How can an address refer to the "USA" if no countries exist in Star Trek?
Some official and unofficial maps of the Star Trek galaxy depict space realms like the Federation or the Klingon Empire, etc., spread out over a large proportion of the galaxy. Maps often depict each ...
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Why did Robert and Rhaegar fight at the Trident instead of down south in the Stormlands?
That's because Robert's allies were up north and he did not want to get surrounded by Armies of Crownlands, Highgarden and Dorne.
Geography of Westeros
In Westeros there are nine administrative units ...
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Are the rivers Ankh and Lancre identical?
In a word, yes. They're the same river, albeit I think we can assume that it's joined by tributaries (or possibly is itself a tributary) as it progresses through the Ramtops and out onto the Sto ...
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How can an address refer to the "USA" if no countries exist in Star Trek?
You can probably think of an example close to you where one city annexed another, or cities merged, but they still retained the place name as a cultural delineation which no longer carried any legal ...
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Which countries have significant magical populations?
As far as we know all countries have a wizarding population, and they all appear to have a proportionate wizarding population. We are not lead to believe that any country DRAWS in more wizards then ...
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How long does it take to get from Moat Cailin to Mole Town on horseback?
Judging from this map is approximately +/- 1,000 miles from Moat Cailin to Castle Black and Mole's Town is just to the south.
You might be able to get 100 miles per day out the best horses, if you ...
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Does the Miskatonic River match a real place?
I think that the Saugus River is the best choice considering the description in the original post. Other reasonable choices are the Merrimack River, Crane Brook plus Crane River, and Mystic River. ...
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Does the Miskatonic River match a real place?
No
The Miskatonic River starts in north central Massachusetts and flows into the sea in Massachusetts. No river matches that description.
Supporting quotes
All quotes are from Lovecraft's works ...
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What is the Real Scale of the Breath of the Wild Map?
84 square kilometers is roughly 9.16km to a side (5.6mi). Eyeballing the map, this seems reasonable.
However, the average walking speed of a human is about 5km/hr, which means you should be able to ...
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Confusing movements of Lannister Armies under Jaime and Tywin?
The Prelude
Uncle Edmure had sent Lord Vance and Lord Piper to hold the pass
At the beginning, Lannisters amassed a large host at Casterly Rock. Upon hearing about Lannister mobilization, Edmure ...
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Which countries have significant magical populations?
All of the below have Quidditch teams of their own. So, they would have atleast a large enough magical population:
Argentina
Armenian junior
Australia
Africa
Has the Uagadou School of Magic
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Where exactly does Eragon take place?
Answering my own question: Alagaesia was most likely a continent (using logic). Here's why:
1 - Alagaesia = a continent. 2 = It stretches well beyond the border of the existing map eastwards. 3 = The ...
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What is the size of Skull Island in Kong:Skull Island (2017) movie?
Based on an eyeball analysis of the official Skull Island poster (which helpfully includes a map scale at the bottom), the island is approximately 51 x 37 miles at its greatest extent. Approximately ...
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Does the Miskatonic River match a real place?
The Miskatonic probably does not accurately represent any real New England river.
(The name itself is suggestive both of the real Mystic River as well as a Iroquoian origin.) However, I ...
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Where in France is the post-apocalyptic Malevil novel based on?
French Wikipedia has an interesting, although unsourced, hypothesis. Périgord department, where the author lived. Now known as Dordogne department. Many locations in the novel are strangely ...
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Guide to Napa Valley sites from Le Guin's "Always Coming Home"?
The Na valley is indeed the Napa Valley and some places of note are listed below. Compare satellite imagery for the locations with the Nine towns of the River map of the Valley (available here, but ...
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Has Star Trek ever portrayed a culture/location on Earth besides North America and Europe?
Memory Alpha tells us a few things about what countries existed on Earth during the eras portrayed in Star Trek. These include the African Confederation, a political entity with member states ...
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Does the Gormenghast trilogy provide enough information to answer Bellgrove's "Name an isthmus" question?
Besides the globe with "CANE SLYPATE THURSDAY" inscribed across it, as mentioned in comments on the question.
Gormenghast is often compared to the island of Sark, which is one of the British ...
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