So that modding teams can add other provinces? That is one of the greatest things about Oblivion.

http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/8366/40135698.jpg

I'm not sure how they'll do the boundary. I'm guessing they'll have mountains act as the boarders and do the you can't go any farther direction. I'm guessing somebody will be able to mod it.

Looks mighty mountainous lol. Still you should be able to do it regardless, you might just have to be creative about it.

All that has to be done is change one of the values in ini.

I have played lots of mods that add lands to Morrowind and Oblivion. The best way to do this is create a new area that you fast travel too. Too many of those mods messed the existing landscape and caused problems when adding in other mods that changed the land.

With Morrowind, it was really easy to stick an island off the coast for this, in Oblivion, one could "expand" the borders to get away from messing up other important areas. With Skyrim being part of the Mainland, not sure if there will be much moddable land within the current map. And, we don't know how the borders are going to be defined. Is the Skyrim area a large valley? If so, then your going to get to your new area via some tunnel.

I can only hope that the ingame map only shows the areas that we can get to so people will not think there are areas of the map left blank because the Devs are lazy or mean.