Advice Please

[Ronin84]

I would like to use the world of Golarion but I don't want to have players buying a lot of resource material that I already have...in short, has anyone gone through and linked the countries/cultures from the Campaign book with their real world equivalents?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Rhonin

[d20pfsrd.com]

If you are asking if there are any websites that have Golarion specific "fluff" (world information) material, I'd say you can't do any better than the Pathfinder Wiki.

[Charles Evans 25]

There aren't many 'Inner Sea' countries that I would confidently place with specific 'real world' equivalents. I would say that the ones which to me have obvious roots (given it's a fantasy setting) are:
Galt - revolutionary France
Lands of the Linnorm kings - vikings
Osirion - ancient Egypt
Taldor - Byzantium

Off the map, Tian Xia could maybe be considered fantasy China, Minkai to be Japan, and Vudra to be India.

There are rather more nations which reflect real world story types, such as a swathe of lands running from Kelesh (off the map) through Qadira and Jalmeray to Katapesh which have 'Arabian Nights' flavour, the Realm of the Mammoth Lords is prehistoric tribes with mammoths and dinosaurs, Numeria is barbarians in a land with a crashed starship at its heart, etc, etc.