Pokemon Regions on map of Real World Japan

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    So, now that I finally have enough posts to add urls, I can bring to you the (Sort Of) Map Of The Pokemon World!

    [PokeCommunity.com] Pokemon Regions on map of Real World Japan


    Now, Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, and Sinnoh are pretty much undisputed, although due to their not being exact replicas of the real world counterparts, Johto is a bit bigger than it should be, Hoenn should be facing the other direction, and Sinnoh is gigantic. Almia is never explicitly said to be based off of any part of real world Japan, but it does fit onto the tail end of Sinnoh there rather nicely (although I had to break up the Japanese Prefecture of Hokkaido to put it there).

    Fiore took some guesswork and speculation. It's easiest defining features are that it has a coastline and some big mountains in the background, so I took that and ran with it. Turns out that several of Japan's tallest mountains are located near the center of the island, where Fiore has a border with Kanto and Johto on my map, which means the Fiore mountain range dissolves into the mountains near Indigo Plateau, Mt. Moon, and Mt. Silver. Fiore could probably stand to cede its northernmost province to Holon, but oh, well, too late now.

    Holon, incidentally, was a wild card, which I stuck into whatever piece of Japan didn't fit well for any of the other regions. If you haven't heard of it before, it's because it's only mentioned in the card game, never in the video games or (as far as I know) the anime. I like to think of it as being replaced by the two islands from the two video games based off of the card game, although this would mean either moving Holon off of the map or changing the geography of Japan, something I haven't got the photoshop/paint skills to do.

    Orre was based off of Phoenix, Arizona, and thus probably shouldn't be on a map of Japan at all, but I didn't have any other regions to plug into the missing space between Johto and Hoenn. It does fit, though, in that Orre-based games have a lot of Hoenn and Johto Pokemon.

    Anyone familiar with the region of Oblivia has probably noticed that it is supposed to be four islands and not just one. This is basically where you just have to use your imagination. I guess in the Pokemon world, Oblivia got hit by a meteor or something, and that caused the one island to split into several.

    The Sevii Islands and, in the anime, Orange Islands (along with Pokemon Island if we're including Pokemon Snap into our mash-up) should be in the ocean south of Kanto...Possibly they're just so far south that they're off the map.

    There is one real-life location that's still unoccupied by any region on this map: Okinawa, the island in the box in the lower right corner. Tiny thing. Maybe that's Pokemon Island.

    I particularly like this map because it fills in all of Japan with existing regions. This makes me feel better about leaving PokeJapan behind in the Monochrome generation, and heading off to PokeMerica instead. Probably due to the same kind of weird impulse that leads to me trying to map the Pokemon regions onto a map of real world Japan.

    EDIT: In retrospect, this probably should've gone in general Pokemon discussion, not the game-specific forum...Oh, well.
     
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    Wow...

    You have imagination there, I wouldn't have thought all that out and explained it as well as you did. I like the design, and it looks like it took a lot of thinking...did it?
    Such details...I love details. :P
     
    I'll toss this in Pokemon General for you, since this really isn't game-specific. Mooji, if you think I did the wrong thing, just fling it back. lol Interesting map though. Does look pretty accurate, imo.
     
    Otherworld9) said:
    You have imagination there, I wouldn't have thought all that out and explained it as well as you did. I like the design, and it looks like it took a lot of thinking...did it?
    Such details...I love details. :P
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    Depends on what you mean by "a lot." Probably took me about an hour (plus another twenty minutes to find a blank map of the Japan prefectures that didn't do something weird whenever you tried to color it in Paint). It was fun, though, because every time I stumbled across something that helped me place a region, I had this "aha!" moment, like it all suddenly made sense. Fiore's mountains are the same range as Kanto and Johto's, Orre has a bunch of Johto and Hoenn Pokemon because it's attached to that region, that kind of thing. I've always been fond of maps, personally...I like knowing where things are.

    @Sydian: Thanks for moving the thread.
     
    Chamomile13 said:
    There is one real-life location that's still unoccupied by any region on this map: Okinawa, the island in the box in the lower right corner. Tiny thing. Maybe that's Pokemon Island.
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    Okinawa is Ever Grande City. Just look at the long-ish, wiggly shaped island on the right side of Hoenn maps and you'll see it's just a sideways Okinawa.

    There's a fairly in-depth page on the real world/pokemon world connections.
     
    Yes, that page is what made it so easy to place Johto, Hoenn, and Sinnoh (I was initially going to put Sinnoh where Holon is now until I found that page, and I'm much happier with the way things turned out having found it). Didn't read much of the in-depth stuff, though, since my map was on a much more macro scale than that, and the map I'd downloaded seemed to imply Okinawa was much further away than that.

    Thanks for pointing it out, though! Just about everything's filled in, now.
     
    What are you talking about? Sinnoh is modeled from France. That is the only way I will ever accept that ghetto hat the hero has
     
    PatJamma said:
    What are you talking about? Sinnoh is modeled from France. That is the only way I will ever accept that ghetto hat the hero has
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    Hokkaido secretly is France, and the rest of Japan is secretly Italy, and Asia is a myth.
     
    I see...

    Then it if took you one hour....you didn't have any trouble figuring that out, right? Well, to put it in terms, did you find it more fun than difficult or more difficult than fun?
     
    Definitely more fun than difficult. It hasn't really changed Pokemon fandom forever and I didn't expect it to, so I was really just doing it for myself and then sharing the result just because I had no reason not to. If it was more difficult than fun, it wouldn't have been worth it.
     
    I have always thought that since Sinnoh was announced. And with the 'new continent' Unova it makes more sense.
     
    Orre is Arizona, as far as I know...I have to completely disagree with Fiore. You'd be putting Wintown lower down than Summerland...which is just stupid, no offense.

    I like how you added Almia in though. That's pretty good. And that island you randomly excluded is obviously Ever Grande City.

    What happened to the island the Battle Zone is based on? I think it's part of Russia...but very close to Hokkaido.
     
    Um. On the map of Fiore I found on Bulbapedia, Wintown and Summerland are in almost exactly the same part of the X-axis. In fact, if you start at the rightmost part of Wintown and draw a line straight down, you'll hit the leftmost part of the Olive Jungle. Wintown is, presumably, colder because it it is further inland, which is the same reason why Russia is famous for its winters but Scotland isn't. And yes, Orre is a bit of a stretch. Oh, well.

    The island the Battle Zone is based on is indeed part of Russia, which is why it does not show up on a map of Japanese prefectures.
     
    Interesting.
    For another point of view, search...

    pokemon World Map by ~Cadellin

    On DeviantArt.com, if you type it in exactly like that you shouldn't have a problem finding it. (Note: There might be more than one version, don't remember too well.)
     
    Link for convenience.

    Not really a different version, since it covers very nearly exactly the same ground as mine does, but doesn't speculate as to where the Ranger regions or Holon would fit in, or what would fill in the gaps in between existing regions.

    There was also this one, which I liked because it had Rojin, Johto, and Kanto all connected to each other. If someone filled in the remaining two spots with new regions so that Hoenn was connected to Johto and Sinnoh was connected to Kanto or Rojin, I'd absolutely love it, everything all tied together.
     
    True, I just liked the one by Cadellin because it showed just the in-game maps. I'm still waiting for the update for B&W and the other islands.
     
    B/W takes place in New York. Don't see how you could add that to a map of Japan. I'm curious as to what you mean by the other islands, though. As in, the Sevii Islands, or...?
     
    What you could have done is put "future unknown region" for the ones you didnt think fit
     
    Try to look at dates when you post from now on and not post in threads over a month old, okay?
     
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