With school out for the summer, I have time on my hands. So, I decided today that I would use the map of Qaiyore to figure out just how big these societies really are, and how many people should actually be living in them, given a reasonable population density. Translated, I've spent at least eight hours counting pixels. I used the 1428 .gif map of Qaiyore on the old site. It turns out, convieniently, that one pixel equals a 5 mile by 5 mile square. Using this fact, I was able to calculate land area for most of the societies. I haven't done the Tana, yet, nor have the Videssians, the Free Cities, or the various nomads been figured in. Once I get my numbers translated out of my 7-year-old spreadsheet program into something that I know everyone's PC can read, I'll put it up on the website. For now, here's some trivia: + Mir, counting both the Isle of Celamyr and the occupied portion of Tirmar, has an area of ~51,665 sq.mi. The Isle itself is 17,525 sq.mi. in area, and assuming a maximum medieval population density(120 pop/sq.mi.), the Isle has 2.1 million inhabitants, almost exactly the figure given on the old website. Tirmar adds 34,140 sq.mi. and an additional 2.5 million people. + On the other hand, according to its determinants page on the old website, Aryisa occupies 90,000 sq.mi. and has a population of 120,000. Aryisa's actual area is 16,000 sq.mi., and its population is probably closer to 1 million than to 100,000. + Cedonia is, hands down, the largest country on the MidSea, with an area of 937,125 sq.mi. Assuming an average population density of about 80 people per square mile(due to the effect of invasion followed by civil war), Cedonia has a population of 74.9 million. The next largest MidSea nation is Tanimbar, with 241,250 sq.mi. of land and a probable population of 21.7 million. + However, Cedonia pales in comparison to Torphan. While the exact borders and territory of Torphan are unknown, an educated guess, based on the positions of natural barriers, can be made. Conservatively, Torphan has an area of around 2.31 million sq.mi., and a population of some 254.1 million. That's more than the total population of all the MidSea countries combined. + Finally, the smallest mapped country on Qaiyore is the Razanian Kingdom of Sayn, at 500 square miles and a population of 45,000 to 50,000. There are a couple other things I want to do with these numbers, including figuring the proportions of urban & rural population. Anyway, like I said, once I put the numbers into a presentable form, I'll upload them. Andrew __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price. http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send mail to celandra-off@phoenyx.net.
