The Size of the worldFollow

Hi, does anyone know how big Azeroth is? (square meters)
I have searched many places on the net, but I have not found it.

i think it has been compared to about the size of Rhode Island.

Here's someone on the O-boards that actually tried to calcuate it out. Take it for what it's worth, but he doesn't calculate area, just length.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=52865344&sid=1

In summary, he concludes that Kalimdor is 9.22 miles long.

In a related thread here:

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=52905421&sid=1

One of the follow on posters concluded that the continents had the following surface areas:

30 square miles for Kalimdor.
26 square miles for Eastern Kingdoms.

[Note: this is pre-expansion, before the added landmasses.]

My handy dandy calculator tells me that those convert to:

77699643 square meters for Kalimdor
67339690 square meters for Eastern Kingdoms

and therefore 145039333 square meters for Azeroth. Excluding islands and oceanic waters and expansion land masses.

How accurate is it? I have no clue! :)

See I was thinking differently, I was thnking take a human character to the top of one of the continents and walk from the northern most point, to the southern most point. Count the number of southward steps that are taken. You must walk straight north and south, if a path is not open to go straigh south you have to walk directly east or west to create a new north and south path, and resume counting. Then figure an average male step from back heel to front heel is aroun 3ft, just do the math from that point.

Then do the same going east to west and then you have your square footage. Takes more time and effort than I am willing to put forward.

Example of calculating
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The north and south length of this is 6 steps, or 18ft.

Just because it isn't all in a straight line the north to south counting starts and stops at the exact same point on the east-west access grid, so the length would still be the same. Of course this wouldn't give an exact square footage of the island because the island isn't a rectangle but it would give a rough idea. Why don't you go ahead try it out and tell us what you come up with.

Edited, Dec 26th 2006 4:12pm by SynnTastic

Edited, Dec 26th 2006 4:11pm by SynnTastic

Thank you all!