5 Cities of Westeros - Map Detailed (Game of Thrones)
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- The 5 major cities within the 7 kingdoms on the
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King's Landing, Oldtwon, Lannisport, Gulltown, White Harbour
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Bran the builder was clearly the greatest architect in Westeros history
Yea the builder was a good builder
The only one mentioned*
A 9 year old Bran designed the Storm's End
Sunbro Adresse no one else could make a 700 fuckin foot high wall could they?
@Sunbro Adresse It was said by Ned that 500 men in Winterfell can hold against a siege of 10,000 (assuming sufficient provisions).
Theon took Winterfell because all the soldiers were off with Rob or at Torrhen's Square, and there were basically zero defenders. Jon took the castle from Bolton because Bolton was an idiot who wanted to show off and didn't just sit in the castle and let Jon try to scale the walls.
The show's version of Casterly Rock was utterly lackluster.
The resone why it was because,they didn't want to spend a lot of money on a 5 minute scene.
True, they did a better job on samwells family castle lol
same with high garden
@@odinvik7821 Oh my God Highgarden was the biggest fucking joke of this show.
The castle itself of Casterly Rock in the show is MASSIVE. Its the height of cliff it sits on that is lacking. If that castle was a cliff 2-3x higher then the Rock is 100% done justice.
The cities in Essos dwarf even King's Landing!
Do a vid in yi ti and the oily black stones of asshai
The Seven Kingdoms (apart from Dorne) tend to have more rural populations, in the East most lands away from the cities are quite dangerous or uninhabitable. Also the cities are mostly from Old Ghis or Valyria along with ancient remnants like Qarth and the 3 Bone Mountain cities-much older.
Volantis alone predates Oldtown and has access to the Rhoyne, the Summer Sea and the Slaver Cities via the Valyrian roads.
what about Sunspear? i thought that was a city
Ashai dwarf even kings landind volantis qarth and oldtown combined together!!!
@@Charapos asshai is as large as dorne i think
Do one about the middle-sized towns, such as Maidenpool, Duskendale, Stoney Sept, Hull, Ashford, Fairmarket, Planky Town, Weeping Town, Vinetown, Lordsport, etc
And the Shadow City and Barrowton
Ranga Rolls and winter town. It is probably bigger and richer than most of the towns in winter.
And Tumbleton, I think it's still around.
and who are the lords of Maidenpool?
@@josephleonard6695 House Mooton
Oldtown kinda reminds me of Alexandria, because of the location at sea and of course because of the lighthouse on a separate island. In Alexandria the lighthouse was named the Pharos and it was one of the seven ancient Worldwonders.
Furthermore, old town is a place of learning and home of the biggest library in the seven kingdoms- perhaps inspired by the Great Library of Alexandria
And braavos has the bronze statue in its harbour like rhodes. I wonder if all the wonders are reflected in the series.
And the sphinxes are remenicent of Egypt
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The sphinxes are more reminiscent of Babylon and Sumeria, but I might be wrong
Actually, JRR MARTIN took inspiration from those places to creat that. He already said something like that in some interviews! :)
I guess only 4 cities from now on.
Rational Thinking thanks to Danny
Rational Thinking rip the people of kings landing
Lutteo Forever fuck the people of kings landing
It’s still there, at the end of the last episode you can see the city is already getting repopulated again.
But honestly fuck the people in Kings Landing, they’ve always been vicious assholes.
Brendan Adams fuck you kratos. There were children and innocent people in that city and they weren’t that vicious, at least not vicious enough for that kind of punishment
Can you do a video about the Bastards of the series? It will be neat on how they are treated in different parts of Westeros/Essos, the meaning of Bastard last names, famous bastards other than the main characters
like in dorne how they're embraced rather than shunned
I smell a fellow bastard
Daemon Blackfyre is probably the most famous bastard who ever lived though he was legitimized later on.
Zac Crow well but he is not really a bastard though.
The reason because Dornishmen came from a union between them and Rhoynar, which were mostly are bastards, which sees bastards as gifts, rather than curses.
The more bastards or Sands you got, the powerful you are.
Tier list (for me)
S- Oldtown
A- Lannisport
B- White Harbour
C- King's Landing
D- Gull Town
White Harbour is sick dude. at least A for me
@@eurongreyjoy1008 I have to agree, but maybe that's just because I'm a Manderly fan.
I have always wondered why Oldtown was simultaneously the biggest city in Westeros forever until very recently when Kings Landing finally surpassed it AND it's located on the "WRONG" side of Westeros. GRRM got it right having the city being at the mouth of the biggest river in the region so it has both access to the sea for international trade and river based trade and transportation of the huge amounts of food the Reach is able to produce with their ability to plant crop and crop back to back for years during their supernaturally long summers.
However, Oldtown is located on the side of Westeros facing away from Essos, the Summer Islands, the Free Cities (or Valyria for thousands of years), and all the other far eastern trade partners. I suppose that it was more important to be at the mouth of the Mander while any trade simply had to sail along the coast of Dorne for a little while to get there rather than being located in the East.
Because of its location and the presence of black stone, I have a theory. I think that because of this being a world living in the wake of an apocalypse that happened long ago, that Oldtown was the home port and base for trade with Ashai TO THE WEST :0 Yes, the trade routes to the West could have been well known and the city being on the West coast was more convenient than the East because their trade with whatever used to be located in Ashaii annd Yi Ti was to the West. The trade fleets would load up on tons of supplies like food and wine and tradegoods in Oldtown, trade far to the West after a months long journey, then return with all the amazing goods they have there.
Oldtown is at the mouth of the Honeywine River. I think Highgarden controls the lower half of the Mander River, with only the Shield Islands at it's delta.
Definitely could be, I think the post apocalyptic idea is solid, especially considering that our real world might be just that same thing. Human beings have been nearly wiped out several times by volcanoes 🌋
Mouth of the Honeywine river
The world isn't flat!?
Isn't Sunspear a city as well? I mean it's also pretty Important and old, it's the capital of Dorne. And Duskendale also has a huge harbour and is pretty wealthy
Duskendale is more like a castle and Sunspear is a medium sized town, with the fortress of Sunspear nearby
The town around Sunspear is called the Shadow City.
It is even called shadow city...
The shady city is a city by Dornish standards. It’s a town by everyone else’s. Duskendale has an old and massive port but it’s surpassed by these 5 my a long shot
The shadow city around Sunspear is also not that far north of Planky Town, which is a larger town at the mouth of the Greenblood.
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Indeed.
Bruh I was on the toilet when I read this
KasManian that must’ve been what i was smelling
You would think that since the Targaryens came from Valeria, a city fully of dragons, that they would know how to build Kings Landing in a way that allowed dragons to flourish.. Seems odd to me that dragons ever started being placed in the cages and chains in the dragon pit...
They were stuck with Westeros builders,beside Bran i think they couldnt make topeless towers like Valyrians could
Dragons became smaller because they weren’t needed anymore. After they were used to conquer the known world they didn’t need them anymore. It’s why when viserion and rhaegal were left locked up they didn’t grow but drogon did
@@ASAP_Kenny Dragons grow slower when they are locked away, not bc they werent needed. They still needed Dragons though, that was the whole reason the Targaryens were able to stay in power and why they started making Wildfire.
@@bestkill6888 the targaryens weren't kept in power because of dragons
Their dragons died out about 200 years before Robert's rebellion
Yes the conquered with them and need them to implement a stable dynasty
But even when dragons disappeared no one in Westeros could deny what the targaryens had done!!
Ended all the petty squabbling between the great houses even tho the replaced it with their own inner wars between targaryens
And Westeros had never known such prosperity before targaryen rule
@@ryanvercoe304 The Targs we’re kept in power bc of the Dragons, Aegon and Maegor would have been overthrown if they didn’t have them and the Dragons were a deciding factor in The Dance of Dragons. Yes they died 150 years before the The War of Five Kings but they still were incredibly important. I said “They still needed Dragons though, that was the whole reason the Targaryens were able to stay in power and why they started making Wildfire.”
I think many castles functioned as towns as well and had people live there without being servants
Do a video on some of the more notable castles. I know there are a lot but it would be interesting info. Great content as always. Cheers!
The best Castle is the unnamed baelish Castle lol.
If you analyze the map, I don't understand why Balon Greyjoy wanted to attack the North instead of doing what Theon suggested to join up with Robb Stark and attack the Lannisters.
Because he had a personal vendetta and the western shores of the north are far more vulnerable. Lannisport and Casterly Rock require too much to be taken so he opted for the safer option. It’s the same reason why euron attacked the Reach when it was preoccupied
Revenge against Starks. Robert and Ned destroyed Greyjoys.
He was probably aware how unforgiving it was to attack Tywin's homeland.
I think the entire Ironborn Navy and army together couldn't feasibly take Lannisport and Casterly Rock. At best they could raid the coasts.
Once again my friend, impeccable detail. Well done
Perhaps you could make a video detailing the wall and the gift next
As always... Amazing Info & Great Work. Thanks
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Four cities
Danny had some fun
Old Town is basically the Alexandria of Westeros.
As always, your video is beautifully presented and with great content
Thank you :)
This is excellent! Thank you!
Great video as always👍
Its jon snow not john
The Pro of living in those cities is White Harbor has good fish and clean. Oldtown has the maesters, education and trading seas. Lannisport is he best city of trade and luxuries goods. Gulttown is the best place that sells candle and good trade with free essos.
The King's landing has the best whore-houses, goods trade with Pentos.
The Cons of those westeros cities: White harbor is too cold. Lannisport is often attacked and sacked by Ironborn riaders, prices is too high. King's Landing is too populated and too smells horrible like Blackwater. Gulltown is boring and has not a good standards of living. Oldtown seems like the only good place to live, expect Euron Greyjoy is gonna attack there with his iron fleet, only in the books!
@@Syndixal bro ik its Jon snow, but my IRL name is John
@@johannilsson5846 oh ok
Why did you kill me Jon Snow.
Tell me!? Why!?
Great video! Im making a miniature polymer clay town and all this info is great!
Can you make a video on the red keep, like a map and detailed description of every part of the red keep, and perhaps all the rooms in the tower of the hand or Maegors holdfast
Great video, my favourite channel on CZcams!💯👍
12:01 guess I'll just head to the Oldtown Road
There's also quite a few towns and a lot of villages even though it would take George forever to create a bunch more. Just look at the village of Cairns where Jaime encounters Brienne
I thought that was Pennytree.
Good video, earned a sub👍🏻
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Another great video, your stuff is better than most ASOIF lore videos by a mile
I’m gonna take my horse to the Oldtown road.
Ffs
im gonna ride till i can’t no more
I really want more game of thrones shows, one idea I had was the plot was focused on a local in the big town/cities and that shows off the cities missing from the GOT tv show and the life of the local of course
Excellent video! Very informative. I hope we can see White Harbor for the first time when Jon and Dany land in the North.
Bran the builder can we make it!? Bran the builder YES WE CAN!!
That should be the new prequel.
Oh, the good content 😍
I got 4 of them dang . Missed gulltown
great video
2:43 I didn't know Louie CK was a maester!
"Oldtown is old"
We have ourselves a scholar
Just a small correction: lannisport is the origin city of the Lannister family. One of their ancestors during the age of heroes was a famed trickster, and he stole casterly rock from the casterlys through a game of wits.
It is not made clear if Lann the Clever started the Lannister family or if he came from the city called Lannisport. As cities spring up around ports the city came first
Lann the clever came from the reach. And lannisport was built thousands of years after his existence. It was built during written history
1. Oldtown
2. Lannisport
3. Gulltown
4. White Harbor
5. King’s landing
I never liked the idea of the Starks giving away the most valuable piece of land to outsiders. To limit the Manderly’s power I would’ve built 3 other trading ports.
Yesss
I wish we saw more of gulltown. In asoiaf. In the Books white Harbour is much more important and we never see it in the show. But we never see gulltown in the either.
If I have to choose a city to live in out of these 5 It would be between Old Town and White Harbor. Probably White Harbor since its safer and probably prettier plus I love the cold
I would have thought that Sunspear should have been a large city due to their proximity to the Summer Islands, Sothoryos, and large cities in Essos.
I think its similar to highgarden, because of sunspears location by a river on a vast desert, its mostly rural farmland with great manors down the river. Highgarden likely hspas more population than any of the cities, but because of thier massive fertile farms it is more spread out and rural instead of dense. Therfore highgarden might contain more people in its borders but has a very small metroploitan area.
Yes 4 years later, this matters. TECHNICALLY Sunspear is the fortress. The town is called something else and it's a medium sized one
@@rosshugecaulk It's called the Shadow City.
i would like a video of the differences between the series and the books
to see the giant castles and cities of got would be absolutely stunning to see in real life. these castles dwarf modern skyscrapers
okay maybe not dwarf but are very very very much larger than the old medieval castles still present today
Can you tell me where you got those arts?
This was interesting but you really should have included populations
As Westeros is based on Britain, I can say - kings landing is London, Lanisport is Bristol, white harbour is Grimsby, oldtown is Canterbury, dragonstone is Newcastle.
I would say that Lannisport is Liverpool (similar name, history and location), White Harbour is Newcastle, Dragonstone is Hull and Oldtown is Bristol.
Grimsby isn't big enough or successful enough to be a comparison. It's not a city. I live quite close to it and I would compare it more to Duskendale.
Was Oldtown called something else before it became Oldtown? Asking for a friend lolol
Maybe newtown hahaha
Thanks!
Great video thank you!! I look forward to watching more. :)
Oh me oh my
Did you do a map detail video of the free city's?
Yup! In my Valyria map video
Great content
Visenya's hill really loves fire
i would also say White Harbor has done so well Bc of there silver mines
Oldtown has literally everything. Oldest and cleanest city. Center of learning. Center of religion. Richest house in the Reach. etc
If the Hightowers became ambitious the continent bleeds
Everyone's glad that they have so many stairs that they're too tired to scheme
Sunspear is also a city
Notification squad ;)
I swear, you're like the BlackySpeaks of Game of Thrones
underrated comparison
We need an ASOIAF video game !!!
The funny thing about the black cells in Kings Landing is, that they are the one of the very few underground prisons in fantasy that make sense. The thing is, if you put your prisoner into a room in the basement, all he needs to do to escape is getting one or two levels up and he is on the ground level with the exit of the building he is in. thats why prisons in the real medieval times were in the towers. they were in the top most rooms, so they had to make their way through the entire tower to escape. But in a world where dragons existed, all you need to do to free a prisoner would be to fly up there, smash a hole into the roof with the dragons tail or claws, mount the dragon and fly away. So yes, in such a world the Dungeon is more secure.
what about the shadow city , the one where sunspear is located , i thought it's a city based on the description in the books
It’s a large town comparable to salt pans, maidenpool, or barrowton.
The cities in Westeros are massive. Plenty of other towns, like Stoney Sept, Barrowton, and the Shadow City, would be considered cities by medieval standards
. I seriously doubt any of the Free Cities are bigger then Kings Landing, except maybe Volabtis. Westeros is the largest and most owrfuk country in the world, and can support larger cities.
an owrfuk country for an owrfuk ruler
King's Landing has a population of about 500,000 as stated by Tyrion. The free cities are large and many live outside the city proper.
@Reckoning 500,000. Jamie says "Half a million. population of King's Landing."
@@kc_1018 Jon said 1 million, that’s about as big as a medieval city could get.
Westeros is a predominantly agriculture society. 90% of it's population live in a rural setting. The continent isn't large enough to support a massive rural population that could support a massive urban population like that of Essos.
8:48. is that blue mosque ob the lef top ? :D
Nope, that the Sept of Baelor.
I think the artist took inspiration from the great Hagia Sophia church/mosque in Konstantinopel/Istanbul.
No, the swords came from those who were vanquished by Aegon, not from those who surrender ed to him
Both of them
This content is more about the history of the houses and storyline, less about the cities themselves.
Your voice is so pleasing
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Wrong
the shows depiction of westeros really makes the world look small and underdeveloped like our own medieval era. The books descriptions and fan art make the world seem more like fantasy. Asoiaf would be a great animated series.
I hate king's landing it smells shit,old town or gull town would be my pick.
"Oof! I can smell the shit from the 5 miles away!"
-Lady Olenna Tyrell
@@josephleonard6695 true words tho
I would pick white harbor it’s the cleanest and I like the cold and northern culture is my favorite
What about Sunspear?
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It's interesting that all there major cities are by the sea.
The largest city in Game of Thrones is not even on the map because it has not been discovered yet.
Gid Michigan ?
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What city?
So citadel is like Alexandria's lighthouse
These cities seem smaller (save King's Landing) and more primitive than Essos, which is ironic when you consider the Dothraki.
Sun spear is a technical city
I don’t know if Gulltown was ever considered a city...
Where’d you get your data supporting this supposition?
It has always been considered a city accorsing to the books, considering it is larger that White Harbour
Sunspear is also a city but isn’t talked about a lot
Planky Town is bigger than the shadow city beneath Sunspear.
@@paulraines9635 I didn’t know that, thanks for telling me
"I don't know if you've noticed but a lot of location in Game of Thrones aren't cities"
The Answer to the is Production Budget
isn`t sunspear one of the big cities in westeros also?
As a spartan once said when asked why doesn’t your city have walls These are my walls as he pointed at his spartan soldiers
Why can’t game of thrones have a society like that / city like that that would be cool
Still love game of thrones tho and LOVE your content !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dothraki?
ClassicAdden ehhhh not really they are split into multiple tribes not one society but kinda close
What a stupid fucking comment
@@charlesharmon3658 I believe he means a city like that would be a prime target for the Dothraki.
@@charlesharmon3658 They don't have any walls, just a force made out of muscular men. They roam and take everything, giving nothing back. I think it's very similiar.
I love how King's Landing is a purpose built city, and it's the shitiest one
No more Aegon high high?
if you think abudt it oldtown has no business being as big as it is as people from essos would have to sail arund dorn same goes for castlerock
Is sunspear a city or just a big ass castle?
We can guess King's Landing destruction was forshadowed in the passages we see Arya and Tywin in the devasted city of Harenhall. In S8 they are almost mirrored. So in the show we were already shown what a dragon can do to a "well fortified castle". Both places were regarded as such, and well, now we know...
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What about the shadow city in dorne?
Ironically just a town
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What level was Ned strark in, cause he’s in a black one but he’s noble
prince Daemon Targaryen founded the gold cloaks. Armed, Armour, and trained them.
Would you happen to have a source on the part about Petyr Baelish being master of customs in Gulltown and performing well? I'd like to know.
Its in one of the info videos about the Great Houses of Westeros, Petyr's actor voices it and tells the story about his house.
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I just watch free solo and can't help to wonder how tall is yosemite el capo compare to The wall in asoiaf?
just did a quick Google search. el capo's tallest face is about 3000 feet while the wall in GoT is 700 feet tall.
I would live in gulltown
Duskendale was the largest before Aegon. Yet it is not even a large city in Westerosi measures.. figures.
Isn't sunspear another Big city?
Tyrell Wilson sunspear is a castle
I mean it certainly blurs the lines between city and castle. To be fair, a lot of the "castles" in Westeros are flipping huge, both in size and population.
I think it’s too small to be truly called a city, the five cities he talked about dwarf Sunspear and in the Soiled Knight chapter they talk about how the shadow of the castle covers almost all of sunspear