Map of Westeros

About this map of Westeros

Westeros is the western continent of the world of A Song of Ice and Fire, home to the Seven Kingdoms of Game of Thrones. It stretches roughly 3,000 miles from the frozen lands beyond the Wall to the deserts of Dorne, and about 900 miles across at its widest point; George R.R. Martin has compared its size to South America. Nine regions make up the realm ruled from the Iron Throne: the North, the Iron Islands, the Riverlands, the Vale of Arryn, the Westerlands, the Crownlands, the Reach, the Stormlands and Dorne.

This map is an original vector illustration drawn for mapofwesteros.com, based on the geography described in the novels and the official maps that accompany them. It is deliberately spoiler-light: it shows the political map of Westeros at the start of the story, so you can follow the books or the show without learning who ends up holding which castle. Every label on the map is real text, which means you can search it, copy it and read it in your own language.

Use the layer controls to show roads, rivers, borders and the seats of the Great Houses; click any castle or city for a short description and a link to its own page; or switch on the distance tool to measure how far it really is from Winterfell to King's Landing.

A complete guide to this map of Westeros

This page is an interactive map of Westeros, the western continent of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and the setting of HBO's Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon. Everything below explains what the map shows, where the geography comes from and how to use the search, layer and measuring tools. If you would rather just explore, drag to pan and scroll to zoom.

Whether you came looking for a GOT map of Westeros or a map of the Seven Kingdoms, this is the same map. Most versions online are screenshots too small to read and blurry the moment you zoom in. This one is vector artwork with every place name stored as real, selectable text, so a detailed map of Westeros stays sharp at any magnification.

What the interactive map of Westeros shows

The map covers the continent from the Lands of Always Winter down to the southern coast of Dorne, plus the western edge of Essos across the Narrow Sea. More than 170 places are plotted: the five true cities, the seats of the nine Great Houses, the castles of their bannermen, ruins such as Harrenhal and Summerhall, market towns, and landmarks including the Wall and the Tower of Joy.

Four layers switch on and off independently. Roads draw the Kingsroad, the River Road, the Gold Road, the Rose Road and the Ocean Road. Rivers draw the Trident and its three forks, the Blackwater Rush, the Mander and the Greenblood. Borders outline the nine regions, and the houses layer colours each seat by its ruling family. Turn everything on for a full map of Westeros, or strip it back to coastline and cities to find one place quickly.

A detailed map of Westeros drawn from the books

The geography follows the novels and the official maps in The Lands of Ice and Fire, but none of it is traced. Every coastline, river, road and mountain range was drawn from scratch as coordinate data, which is why this map has its own visual style.

That choice has a practical advantage beyond the licensing. Because the map is data rather than an image, the same source produces the interactive version, the nine region maps and the downloadable files, so a correction made once appears everywhere. Where the novels and the television series disagree about where something sits, the map follows the novels and the difference is noted on that place's own page.

The map of Westeros with houses and their seats

Nine regions, nine ruling families. The houses layer marks every ancestral seat and tints it in that family's colours: Stark grey at Winterfell, Lannister crimson at Casterly Rock, Tyrell green at Highgarden, Baratheon gold at Storm's End, Arryn blue at the Eyrie, Tully red and blue at Riverrun, Greyjoy black at Pyke, Martell orange at Sunspear and Targaryen red and black at Dragonstone.

Switching that layer on gives you a map of Westeros with houses in the sense most readers mean: who holds what, and how far apart their seats really are. Click any castle to see its house, its region and the places nearest to it. The Great Houses page lists each family with its words, its sigil and the lands it rules, and the same colours carry across every region map and across the Narrow Sea, so a map of Westeros and Essos with houses stays readable in one glance.

Map of Westeros and Essos across the Narrow Sea

Westeros does not sit alone. The main map extends far enough east to show Braavos, Pentos, Myr, Tyrosh, Lys and Volantis, which makes it obvious how narrow the Narrow Sea actually is and why the Free Cities matter so much to the story. Dragonstone lies closer to Pentos than King's Landing lies to Winterfell.

For the wider view, the Westeros and Essos page covers both continents together: the Free Cities, Slaver's Bay, the Dothraki Sea, Qarth and the long road east toward Asshai. It also sets out the scale relationship between the two, which is what a detailed map of Westeros and Essos usually gets wrong. Essos is far larger, and most drawings flatten that difference until the two look like neighbours of equal weight. If you want an interactive map of Westeros and Essos rather than a static one, the search and panning tools work over there too.

Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon on one map

The political borders shown are those at the opening of A Game of Thrones and the first season of the show, so this doubles as the Game of Thrones map of Westeros most viewers already carry in their heads. Nothing on it depends on later events, and it stays accurate whether you are on the first book or the final episode.

House of the Dragon takes place roughly 170 years earlier, during the Dance of the Dragons. The coastline, the rivers and the roads are unchanged, and so are most of the castles: Dragonstone, King's Landing, Harrenhal, Storm's End, Riverrun and Oldtown are central to both stories. The differences are political rather than geographic, since the Targaryens still held the throne and several later houses had not yet risen. Reading this as a House of the Dragon map of Westeros mainly means ignoring the modern house colours and watching the rivers, because the Dance was fought up and down them.

Distances and travel times you can check

The map is calibrated so that the ride from Winterfell to King's Landing along the Kingsroad works out at roughly 1,500 miles, matching the month-long journey described in the books. Every other distance on the site follows from that same scale, so the numbers stay consistent with each other.

Switch on the measure tool and click any two places to get the straight-line distance, an estimated distance by road, and how long the journey would take on horseback, on foot or under sail. The distance calculator page gives the same answers as a table, with canonical figures marked wherever the novels state one.

Download a high resolution map of Westeros

The download page offers the map as a PNG at 4000 by 6000 pixels, smaller PNGs at 2000 and 1200 pixels wide, and an SVG that stays sharp at any size at all. The largest raster file prints cleanly at around 60 by 90 centimetres, which is enough to hang a high resolution map of Westeros on a wall rather than only use it as a desktop background.

All four files are free for personal use with attribution. Because the SVG is vector artwork rather than pixels, it scales to any poster size without the labels going soft.

Eight languages and no spoilers

Place names are translated into Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese and Korean as well as English, following the official book translations wherever they exist. The map redraws itself with the names of whichever language you pick.

Every description on the site avoids major plot events, deaths and endings. You can read a castle's history and its place in the realm without learning what eventually happens there, which is the point of a spoiler-light map: useful on a first read, still useful on a fifth.