How large is the world the games are set in? Imperial City, for example, is clearly visible in http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Nirn?file=Map_tamriel.jpg. With such maps and the generally similar size of game worlds in past TES games one would think that Tamriel is hardly larger than, say, Estonia or Portugal. In each province there seems to be only five-to-seven big cities. I hear Daggerfall has a huge map though.

So is Tamriel and Nirn really small places or is it just the game fooling me?

The games aren't on a 1-1 scale.

Just like the main population in any province isn't 10 bandits for a single regular citizen.

Daggerfall was about the size of the UK wasn't it?

Tamriel is 12 million square kilometers in size, as stated in Arena's manual.

The Imperial City seen in Oblivion is a scaled-down version of the 'real' thing, BTW, as with everything in the games, so I wouldn't look to it, of all things, as an indicator of Tamriel's size.

The real Cyrodiil City is probably more like Rome+Constantinople+Kyoto, rather than Minas Tirith flattened down.

This. In the novels a more realistic version of the Imperial City is presented, as opposed to a couple of hundred people and some white buildings.

We know, for example, that Daggerfall City had a population of around 100,000 when Tiber took it over. It is supposed to be relativley small when compared to places like Solitude, The Imperial City, Almamexia, and Alinor City.

Really? Solitude's bigger than Daggerfall?

Huh. I guess the Nords never struck me as the cosmopolitan type.

Solitude is supposed to be one of the largest cities in the empire.....
Tamriel is about the Size of Europe(Europe is a bit smaller)...
Yokuda was supposed to be much larger than Tamriel..
Atmora is essentially the Artic about the same size I reckon.
Pyandonea is about the size of Smmerset Isles so I'd say about 1.8-2 million sqkm
Akavir is about the size of Tamriel or slightly smaller.
So considering the distances between the continents and the considerably large seas and oceans...I'd say that nirn is about he size of Mars or at most the size of Venus(just slightly smaller than earth).

If we go the other way, the surface area of the continent of Tamriel -- were it rendered at the scale presented in the Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind -- would be equal to that of modern-day Croatia.

I was under the impression we had no idea how large Akavir/Yokuda/Pyandonea were.

I had a thread similar to this about population, and someone said that someone reliable told them that Tamriel is more the size of Eurasia, as in kind of ending at the steppes and further into Russia. This would make sense, as Akavir would fulfill the "eastern continent" role with all its really eastern cultures. Yokuda is like the Americas, except sunk. Africa has no parallel, unless its undiscovered as of yet. I wouldn't put it past Nirn to reveal an entirely new continent to us lol.

Daggerfall was about twice the size of the UK


Tamriel is 12 million square miles, as stated in Arena's manual, so it would be just barely bigger than Africa. I also don't see how you can draw any conclusions towards Nirn total size, considering how we have no definite maps of Akavir and we don't know the distance between it and Tamriel.

Ok I screwed up,I thought that Tamriel was 12 million sqaure Kilometers....I think it was in one of the atricles in The Imperial Library where I read that Yokuda used to be slightly larger than Tamriel until the earthquake atomic explosion incident....
The Pyandonea and Akavir were total guesses..But I remember reading somewhere that the distance between Tamriel and akavir is about 5000-6000 miles(Not sure of a credible source).
Considering Tamriel's size alone Nirn would be bigger than I thought it would be.

It's 12 million square kilometers, not miles.

Well, [censored]. Sorry about that. I'm stupid.

It says miles on the Tamriel page of the wiki. I didn't know that was wrong till I took a look at what the actual manual said. It's probably been misinforming people about that for years.

I always get those mixed up anyways.