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After a lot of controversial and heated speculation leading up to the release of Pokémon Black and White as to what part of the world the new region was based upon, it was confirmed to be based on the New York City metropolitan area, and generally not much more research or interest has been spent on that interesting fact, which is still not all that widely known.
Among those who do know, its commonly perceived that only Castelia City is specifically based on New York City, and that the suburban and rural areas of Unova have no bearing on any actual location within the real life region, a perception which seems based on the common association with lower Manhattan as being characteristic of New York City as a whole, when they are actually primeval forests, suburban neighborhoods, and even virtually rural areas to be found there as well.
Speculators arguing in support of Unova being based on New York City rather than Shanghai unknowingly made things tough for themselves by literally zooming their maps in so close on Manhattan, that the characteristic shape of Brooklyn and Queens between the East River and Jamaica Bay (or Undella Bay) to the East was cut off.
Listed within the spoiler cut are some of the major towns and their real life analogs in New York and New Jersey.
Some of these game locations have extensively borrowed from their geographical real life counterparts, others have very little in common besides their location on the map.
Later, I'll do an update and add all photos of these places for comparison. Some are spot on, some are notably similar, and others have little in common.
I've tried to do this in other formats in the past, but wasn't satisfied that I made something really simple to look at and understand.
Hope this is of interest to you, thanks for checking it out.
Among those who do know, its commonly perceived that only Castelia City is specifically based on New York City, and that the suburban and rural areas of Unova have no bearing on any actual location within the real life region, a perception which seems based on the common association with lower Manhattan as being characteristic of New York City as a whole, when they are actually primeval forests, suburban neighborhoods, and even virtually rural areas to be found there as well.
Speculators arguing in support of Unova being based on New York City rather than Shanghai unknowingly made things tough for themselves by literally zooming their maps in so close on Manhattan, that the characteristic shape of Brooklyn and Queens between the East River and Jamaica Bay (or Undella Bay) to the East was cut off.
Listed within the spoiler cut are some of the major towns and their real life analogs in New York and New Jersey.
Some of these game locations have extensively borrowed from their geographical real life counterparts, others have very little in common besides their location on the map.
Spoiler:
Later, I'll do an update and add all photos of these places for comparison. Some are spot on, some are notably similar, and others have little in common.
I've tried to do this in other formats in the past, but wasn't satisfied that I made something really simple to look at and understand.
Hope this is of interest to you, thanks for checking it out.
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