South Korea 1910

Southern Korea at the start of 1910, plus Jeju, Tsushima, Iki and the northern tip of Kyushu across the strait.

The terrain follows the real landscape: the real mountain ranges, the major rivers, and forest where there is forest today. The mountains are built up so they still look like mountains at this scale, and the river plains are flat enough to build on.

53 towns sit where they really are and start at a size based on their 1910 population, so Seoul is the largest and most county seats begin as hamlets. The 97 industries are placed where they were at the time, including the Chikuho coal mines, the Yawata steel works, farms on the rice plains, fishing grounds offshore and forests in the hills.

Start year 1910, temperate climate, Korean town names. Gigantomaniac is an experimental map size and needs a strong PC.

Land cover based on ESA WorldCover 2021 (CC BY 4.0).