User blog:Vannesira Smith/Sizes of the Human Kingdoms: Part 1

So, while I was doing some lore research and calculations to work out the size of Greyhallow in relation to the rest of Stormwind and the Eastern Kingdoms, I came up with some interesting results on the size of Stormwind and decided I may as well post said results for anyone who wants to see/use them. Note that they are very rough calculations involving lots of averages, RPG material and estimates.

I'll only do Stormwind in this part and try and calculate the rest as Part 2 later today.

Kingdom of Stormwind
Distance from Coast to Coast

Unfortunately, Blizzard has never given exact distances or a scale on maps. Regardless, there are some notes that estimations can be made from: Therefore, the distance from Coast to Coast is approximately 1000 miles. Or a bit under twice the width of Texas.
 * World of Warcraft: Bloodsworn - A zeppelin takes four days to reach Desolace from Orgrimmar (Canon Lore)
 * "Zeppelins can cover about five hundred miles in a twelve-hour day of travel, allowing the crew time to rest and make any necessary repairs." (Non-Canon but still useful, matches with real life expectations)
 * Therefore Desolace is approx. 4 x 500 or  2000 miles from Orgrimmar.
 * Distance from Stormwind Harbour to the Redridge Coastline is approx. half the distance between Org and Desolace on the in-game map.

Total Size of Stormwind in Square Miles
Note: This only includes the main four provinces of Redridge, Elwynn, Duskwood and Westfall. Total size of Stormwind is about 500 000 square miles. Putting that in perspective, it is about the same size as the Balkans and the Iberian Peninsula combined.
 * Distance from Coast to Coast is approx. 1000 miles (See above)
 * Distance from top of Elwynn to bottom of Duskwood on the in-game map is about half the Coast to Coast distance.
 * While Westfall does stick out off the coast, it is cancelled out by the lack of a region under Redridge.

Size of Smaller Subregions

 * Elwynn, Redridge, Duskwood and Westfall are each about 125 000 square miles, give or take. So about half the size of Texas.
 * Bay of Stormwind (Fanon creation) is about 20 000 square miles, a quarter of the size of the Bay of Biscay or a third of the size of the Gulf of California.
 * The Nazferiti River is approximately 1000 miles long, so a bit over the length of the Rhine or just under half the length of the Mississippi.
 * Everstill Lake is about 15 000 square miles, or twice the size of Lake Ontario.

Population
Based on Late Medieval Era or Renaissance Era population densities, the population density of Stormwind would be: Therefore, the population of Stormwind would be between 25 million and 75 million. Of course, this would likely be near the smaller end of the scale due to the First War and the majority of a population being concentrated generally in the fertile areas (Westfall), which have been devastated. In context, the population is between 1 and 3 times that of Australia.
 * Smallest: 50 people per square mile
 * Largest: 150 people per square mile

Military Size
Note: Entirety of this part is based on the Swedish Allotment System. Total military size is between 625 000 and 3.75 million. Probably no higher than 1.5 million due to 30 or so years of sporadic warfare. This includes the Stormwind Navy and Stormwind Army. In context, the military is approximately the same size as that of the United States.
 * One soldier is raised from every four farms.
 * One farm typically has a single family of between 5 and 10 people.
 * Therefore one soldier for every 20 to 40 people, or 2.5% to 5% of total population.

If assumed to be the size stated in the RPG
Therefore Stormwind City is about 8 square miles in total.
 * The RPG gives the population of Stormwind City as 200 000 people.
 * Medieval cities typically had a density of 100 per hectare or 25 000 per square mile.

If assumed to have grown since RPG and be around the size of a large Medieval City (as befits the Kingdom's calculated size)
Therefore Stormwind City   is about   24-25 square miles total.
 * Population would be around 600 000
 * Same density