I've just begun exploring the full world of Golarion in more detail. Looking at the poster map contained in the Gazetteer, I see the scale topped out at 240 miles. When I calculated the distance from the mouth of Nosam River in Molthune to the northern borders of Katapesh, I came up with approximately 650 miles.
Assuming a world size roughly equivalent to Earth, with an average of 69 miles per degree of latitude, that would equate to less than 10 degrees of latitude change between these two regions. This would be about the distance from the very south end of Italy to the very northern shores of Africa. Also, by comparison, the Inner Sea is roughly the same width as the Red Sea.
I'm not complaining, just wanting to make sure I haven't missed something somewhere adjusting the scale of the maps to add more interior area to many of the otherwise tiny kingdoms and to better explain the climate shifts from one region of the map to another.
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I've just begun exploring the full world of Golarion in more detail. Looking at the poster map contained in the Gazetteer, I see the scale topped out at 240 miles. When I calculated the distance from the mouth of Nosam River in Molthune to the northern borders of Katapesh, I came up with approximately 650 miles.
Assuming a world size roughly equivalent to Earth, with an average of 69 miles per degree of latitude, that would equate to less than 10 degrees of latitude change between these two regions. This would be about the distance from the very south end of Italy to the very northern shores of Africa. Also, by comparison, the Inner Sea is roughly the same width as the Red Sea.
I'm not complaining, just wanting to make sure I haven't missed something somewhere adjusting the scale of the maps to add more interior area to many of the otherwise tiny kingdoms and to better explain the climate shifts from one region of the map to another.
If you look at the original map of Varisia you will see that the scale is very different (Varisia is about the size of France). Personally I don't think they've nailed down exactly how large the world really is yet.
