France (gigantomaniac 1-1)

France (gigantomaniac 1-1) All of mainland France plus Belgium and Luxembourg, the southern Netherlands (Maastricht), western Germany (Cologne, Bonn, Saarland, Rhineland), Switzerland, north-west Italy (Turin, Liguria), northern Spain (Basque Country, Navarre, La Rioja, Cantabria), Andorra and the south coast of England on a gigantomaniac 1:1 map (28.7 x 28.7 km). The map is rotated about 5 degrees. Corsica lies outside the frame. 235 real cities at their real locations. Every city starts at minimum size. The 30 big cities (Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Lille, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Brussels, Cologne, Turin and others) demand nine or more cargo types; regional cities demand fewer. 1,141 industries placed by real economic geography: Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Lorraine, Saar, Wallonia, Saint-Étienne and Alès coalfields; Lorraine and Luxembourg iron ore; Dunkirk, Lorraine, Liège, Charleroi and Le Creusot steel; Rhône valley, Basel and Leverkusen chemicals; Saint-Gobain, Arc and Baccarat glass with Fontainebleau silica sand; Champagne, Bordeaux, Burgundy, Cognac and Rioja wine; Lille-Roubaix textiles and Vosges cotton; Thiers knives and Jura and Swiss watches. 26 car plants, only at real sites: western Paris, Sochaux, Mulhouse, Rennes, Douai, Sandouville, Valenciennes, Maubeuge, Dieppe, Vénissieux, Cologne, Genk, Ghent, Brussels, Kaiserslautern, Turin, Vitoria, Pamplona and more. Oil: 19 onshore wells (Parentis, Lacq, Paris Basin, Pechelbronn, Wytch Farm), 9 offshore platforms and 23 real refineries (Le Havre, Port-Jérôme, Grandpuits, Dunkirk, Donges, Feyzin, Berre and Lavéra, Lacq, Ambès, Ghent, Fawley and others). Tips The heavy-industry heart is the coal and iron belt of the north, Lorraine and Belgium; the south is wine and farmland. Hauling coal, ore and crude over long distances is the core of this map. Coalfields, iron mines and oil wells lie far from the mills and refineries. Warehouses at junctions or ports work well as buffers on these long hauls. The south of England connects to northern France across the Channel.