http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/Proweler/Lore/distancemeasured.jpg

Explanation:

Map of Tamriel. I supperimposed Daggerfall on it. Doesn't match neatly so I fixed on getting the Balfira and Bretony which also gets the coast line of Daggerfall right. You can see that the Illiac has a completely different direction and that on the map of Tamriel the Illiac bay is not quite as wide.

Red & Blue line, ( 195 x 330 miles )

Based on http://www.imperial-library.info/fsg/danibenearticle1.shtml. Even though the map doesn't quite fit, it does provide a good indication of the ballpark we're in.

Green line, 250 miles.

Based on the first PGE, assuming Red Mountain starts at the bottom of the mountain graphic. Note that the scale is in the same ballpark as Daggerfall.

Black lines, 250 miles each 3.5 vertial, 5 horizontal.

So that's 875 x 1250 miles or 1.093.750 sq miles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe has 3.930.000 sq miles. So Tamriel is about 1/4 of Europe.

Side note:

Using the same 250 miles and the longitude notation on the daggerfall map, Tamriel has a circumference of some 12.500 miles. About half of earth. If you were to scale the whole planet up, you'd end up with Tamriel being the size of Europe. (time 2^2 because it's sq miles.)

Another side note:

The size of Tamriel is rough estimate but I'm not going to count pixels on a map supposedly made by people without satellite mapping or grantee that the Imperial Cartography department does sufficiently accurate measurements.

Another rough estimate:

If you take the lower half of Cyrodiil and put it Hammerfell you get a box of 250 x 500 miles, Cyrodiil has 125.000 sq miles.

A question that ought to be asked before any extrapolation of size from maps gets taken too seriously is how accurate the maps are. even if they're canon they still might be prone to inaccuracies by the mapmaker which were put down in good faith. my impression of the maps were that they were meant to give you a rough picture of where things are in relation to each other but not be precise with scale and such.

Basically it's continent sized, that puts it in the same order of magnitude of europe. i doubt it is as big as aisa or north america and i doubt it's any smaller than australia.

what it really comes down to though is what size the creators of the intellectual property say it is. after all cyrodill was only a few square miles in oblivion and it's a good sized chunk of tamriel.

Toril (the forgotten realms world) is a larger globe than our earth, so why couldn't Nirn be smaller?

There's no rule saying fantasy planets have to be the same dimensions as our world.

I don't know where Rhode Island is.... but it sounds much bigger then South Limburg...

South Limburg is the little bubble of the Netherlands, being the most southern of the land...


I always compared The real sized Tamriel with Australia...