Game of Thrones is an HBO fantasy drama series developed by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. It is based on George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire trilogy, the first of which is A Game of Thrones.
The show was shot in the United Kingdom, Canada, Croatia, Iceland, Malta, Morocco, and Spain. It started on HBO in the United States on April 17, 2011, and concluded on May 19, 2019, with 73 episodes shown across eight seasons.
Is Game of Thrones’ Westeros located on Earth?
Westeros is a continent in the known world’s far west. It is separated from the continent of Essos by the Narrow Sea, a body of water. The majority of Game of Thrones’ action takes place in Westeros.
George R.R. Martin, the series author, has indicated that Westeros is based on medieval Britain, but as a full-sized continent around the size of real-life South America.
Historically, most Westeros were split into seven kingdoms, including all areas south of The Wall in the far north. The kingdoms were merged into one state after the Targaryen Conquest, but the common name persisted: the monarch on the Iron Throne was known as “Lord of the Seven Kingdoms.”
The two designations are sometimes used interchangeably, despite the fact that the countries Beyond the Wall were never a member of the “seven kingdoms.”
Westeros is bounded to the west by the Sunset Sea, to the south by the Summer Sea, and to the east by the Narrow and Shivering Seas. The northern boundaries of the continent have not been charted, but are thought to stretch to the northern polar ice cover.
The continent is small, around 900 miles wide at its widest point, but long, reaching over 2,000 miles from the Summer Sea to the Wall that forms the northern border of the Seven Kingdoms. The size of the wildling lands beyond the Wall is unknown.
