5 Cities of Westeros - Map Detailed (Game of Thrones)

The 5 major cities within the 7 kingdoms on the
Game of Thrones / ASoIaF map explained

Juan Carlos Barquet

King's Landing, Oldtwon, Lannisport, Gulltown, White Harbour

[JayTor]

The show's version of Casterly Rock was utterly lackluster.

[brooklyn]

Bran the builder was clearly the greatest architect in Westeros history

[simonjuri]

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.

[pedromenchik]

Do one about the middle-sized towns, such as Maidenpool, Duskendale, Stoney Sept, Hull, Ashford, Fairmarket, Planky Town, Weeping Town, Vinetown, Lordsport, etc

[whycreate]

The cities in Essos dwarf even King's Landing!

[rebellonedog]

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

[xadri]

Tier list (for me)
S- Oldtown
A- Lannisport
B- White Harbour
C- King's Landing
D- Gull Town

[carlhiller]

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

[HavanaSyndrome]

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.

[ddowns]

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...

[beboppapadopoulos]

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!

[dylansaccount]

I think many castles functioned as towns as well and had people live there without being servants

[johnbradshaw]

Old Town is basically the Alexandria of Westeros.

[srljedi]

Once again my friend, impeccable detail. Well done

[SuperEringarcia]

As always... Amazing Info & Great Work. Thanks

[bepis]

Perhaps you could make a video detailing the wall and the gift next

[Nemesis_T_Type]

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.

[prof.cecilycogsworth]

As always, your video is beautifully presented and with great content

[carlosg]

Great video! Im making a miniature polymer clay town and all this info is great!

[alejandrozheng]

12:01 guess I'll just head to the Oldtown Road