I'm mainly asking this as (This is my random thoughts here) the Fallout 3 map is basically nothing compared to America. (Stick with this here, I have a reason for that).



So if the Skyrim map is roughly the same size, then that would mean the entire country(Is Skyrim and Cyrodiil etc countries or given other names?) is minuscule compared to any of our own continents.


After thinking about this, I looked at a map of Tamriel and if I used my size scale thing, then Tamriel is smaller than/ about the size of Australia! That seems wrong, so I'm wondering how big Nirn and Tamriel are compared to real-world stuff.






The above doesn't account for changes in technology to make bigger maps but there can't have been too much difference between F3 and Skyrim, can there?



If I'm completely and utterly wrong (beyond hope), then ignore this scribbling of a teenager with nothing better to think about in loading screens.

In the manual that came with Arena, it was stated that Tamriel is 4000 by 3000 kilometers, giving it an area of 12 million kilometers squared, making it larger than Europe. It is not known how large the plane(t) of Nirn is.

It's completely unknown, 'cause its radius was never mentioned. There are many theories where it is speculated to be less than Earth's, but no evidence though. Data from Arena is inconsistent with other games - for example, the real distance between Mournhold and Dagoth Ur is 250 miles in books.

But as far as we know Nirn's calendar is totally Gregorian, and even the moon cycles are the same.

There already is a current thread on the subject: http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1474195-just-how-big-is-tamriel/

As well as many others you can find that have discussed the topic...
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1434011-size-of-nirntamriel/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1321500-size-of-tamriel/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1401236-how-big-is-tamriel-in-lore-as-opposed-to-in-game/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1167207-nirn-cartography/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1057682-size-of-tamriel/