United Kingdom (gigantomaniac 1-2)

United Kingdom (gigantomaniac 1-2) The whole of the United Kingdom - Great Britain and Northern Ireland - plus the east of Ireland (Dublin area), the Isle of Man and the northern French coast (Calais, Boulogne, Dunkirk) on a gigantomaniac 1:2 map (20.5 x 41 km). Great Britain is rotated about 20 degrees so it runs along the long axis from Cornwall to Caithness. Shetland, Orkney and the west of Ireland lie outside the frame. - 165 real cities at their real locations. Every city starts at minimum size. The big seven (London, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Liverpool, Leeds, Dublin) demand all nine cargo types; regional cities demand fewer. - It is the land of fish and chips: every town's residential district demands fish, and 78 fishing grounds ring the entire coast, centred on the real ports - Grimsby, Hull, Aberdeen, Peterhead, Lowestoft, Fleetwood, Brixham, Newlyn. - 326 industries placed by real economic geography: South Wales, Yorkshire, Durham and Central Scotland coalfields; Cleveland, Cumbria and Scunthorpe iron; Sheffield, Teesside, Port Talbot and Motherwell steel; Lancashire cotton, Yorkshire wool, Borders tweed, Belfast linen and Dundee jute; Burton and Guinness breweries and Speyside whisky; Stoke potteries clay; Aberdeen granite, Portland and Bath stone. - 15 car plants, only at real sites: Coventry, Longbridge, Cowley, Luton, Dagenham, Derby, Crewe, Sunderland, Swindon, Halewood, Ellesmere Port, Linwood, Bathgate and Leyland. - Oil and gas are as scarce as in reality: just two onshore wells (Eakring, Wytch Farm), eight offshore platforms in the North Sea (Forties, the Southern gas fields), the Irish Sea and Morecambe Bay, and the seven real refineries (Grangemouth, Fawley, Stanlow, Milford Haven, Teesside, Humber, Shellhaven). - Rivers carved from the terrain; Loch Lomond and Lough Neagh are real lakes. Tips - Ireland has no coal, no iron, no oil and no car plant. Dublin and Belfast supply cattle, grain and Guinness, and everything manufactured or burned has to come across the Irish Sea by ship. Shipping is the heart of this map. - The Highlands supply timber, whisky and fish with few consumer towns. Northern England and the Midlands are the heavy-industry core, East Anglia and Lincolnshire the granary, London and the South the consumers.