http://i.imgur.com/jEBLiat.jpg (based on discussions between Michael and myself). It doesn’t matter if this is exact, because it puts things into perspective. It’s easy to dismiss Bretons as French people with magic until you realize that Highrock is the size of the entirety of western Europe. Think about:

• The Chimer migration out of Alinor, equivalent to traveling the distance from Mali to Moscow (and then some).
• The Great War, with Aldmeri troops conquering what amounts to the entire Arabian peninsula and the Mediterranean sea (in addition to holding the combined area of Libya, Egypt, Chad, Sudan, and Ethiopia to start with).
• Septim’s Empire being http://i.imgur.com/RvrrRKv.jpg the size of Rome at its height, and about http://i.imgur.com/c0x1j57.jpg the size of the Mongolian Empire in the late 1300s. The logistics of managing this area, of moving troops, news, and goods. The almost incalculable number of individual cultures within its borders. How easily and how swiftly both Rome and Mongolia fell in on themselves (multiple times).
• The fact that what we call “Redguards” and “Left-Hand Elves” must, in fact, be dozens of “races” occupying a continent twice the size of Tamriel. The Left Hander’s empire was described in the Sword Meeting as three times as big as Septim’s - in Earth terms, they held North and South America as well as Africa.

(Editorial note: Yokuda is closer to Tamriel than depicted on the map. It’s was placed to overlap with the Americas for scale reference, rather than accurate relationship to Tamriel)

(Crosspost on http://ladynerevar.tumblr.com/post/66412506492/the-continents-of-nirn-scaled-to-those-of-earth)

Much appreciated, it will be nice to have something to point to when people ask.

I knew Tamriel was considerably larger than Europe, but I thought it was even larger than what you have marked on the map. [Torval was said to be several hundred miles from the Valenwood border (PGE1), if several hundred is 300-500 miles than Tamriel is a big place]

EDIT: NM, I think the map is spot on.

No Pyandonea, 0/10.

Though I seriously never thought Akavir would be so small, nor Yokuda so big.

Well now I feel foolish.

look closer, its rather small

Makes sense really. Isnt it just an Island of floating plantlife?

Yea, I figured Yokuda was that big, never would have projected Akavir as just Japan on steroids.

Also, the hell is Lyg? Some mirror continent of Tamriel?

It's there as a tiny little island.

I figured Yokuda was about that big (seeing as the Empire of the Left-Handed Elves was three times the size of the Septim Empire) but I had no idea Akavir would be that small.

Also, what exactly is Lyg?

Wait, I thought Lyg was some kind of alternate-Tamriel? Didn't think they coexisted on the same "map" at all.

EDIT: Ah, just realized...Lyg is depicted as Tamriel but mirrored.

Awesome, this is a helpful visual aid, thanks.

Very nice, thank you from the spatially backward.

Atmora's big, huh? I was picturing it more Akavir-sized and Akavir more Atmora-sized. So their ecological disaster must have been huge.

Huh, Akavir is so small. Barely deserves to be called a continent, really.