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The nine city-states composing the Free Cities lie across the narrow sea, east of Westeros, on the western side of Essos, the eastern continent. Braavos , Lorath , Lys , and Tyrosh are located on islands, Myr , Pentos , and Volantis are located on the coasts, and Norvos and Qohor lie inland.
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The Free Cities are a group of nine city-states grouped along the western coast of Essos. They trade and interact frequently with the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros.
Aug 20, 2017 · The region covered by the Free Cities is vast, matching the entire South of Westeros in size. It extends for approximately 1,800 miles from north to south and for over 1,300 miles from east to west. The Free Cities region is bordered by the Shivering Sea to the north, the Narrow Sea to the west, the Summer Sea to the south and the Dothraki Sea ...
The Free Cities are a group of nine city-states grouped along the western coast of Essos. They trade and interact frequently with the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros. With the exception of Braavos...
Apr 6, 2011 · The region mapped on the Slaver's Bay map in ASoS is some distance from the Free Cities. At the end of ASoS Daenerys muses that the Free Cities are 'thousands and thousands of leagues to the west'.
- Lorath is definitely a mystery. The only person we've ever met from there was Jaquen H;ghar, and he was fake. Maybe that why he chose Lorath for hi...
- The Stepstones may have many more tiny islands that just won't show up on a map of this scale.
- I never had any clue the other continent extended so far north. Any idea where Valyria (is it an island) might be? North of Bravos? would tha...
- Wasn't there already a map of that region in AFFC? I don't have my copy handy to check...
- That is definitely a surprise. I thought the Free Cities were much more clustered together, rather than being so distant as one being on the...
- I too would have thought they are closer to each other, but Braavos is not so far North, certainly not on the same latitude as the Wall. Braa...
- That's right, I actually thought the map was way more extended than that. It makes much more sense now.
- At first glance, the mind makes you think that it is identical in size from top to bottom as all of Westeros, but just think of it as from th...
- It's more believable than from the Wall, but I mean, from the Twins to Sunspear is still a pretty big distance for cities that seem to share...
- No, if you look at the ASOS map that included the remains of Valyria, it seems like Valyria is east of Lys (just off the bottom right corner...
Most of the area of Westeros is covered by a political entity known as the Seven Kingdoms, while the far north beyond the Wall includes the free folk. The closest foreign nations to Westeros are the Free Cities, a collection of independent city-states across the narrow sea in western Essos.
Jan 3, 2024 · The largest group of settlements in Essos is a collection of independent city-states on the west of the continent known as the Free Cities. There are nine in total, and all apart from Braavos were former colonies of Valyria.
