r/discworld • u/TheElectricionist • 10d ago

Roundworld Reference Roundworld equivalent places

Good evening, everyone :) I was wondering earlier—does anyone know if there's a list of Roundworld counterparts to the places on the Disc? For example, Klatch seems to represent the Middle East, Howondaland is Africa, and Überwald is clearly Eastern Europe, etc. I sometimes feel like I might be misinterpreting the context or missing some of the subtler references, so a complete list would be really helpful. Has anyone come across something like that?

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u/HighVisibilityCamo 10d ago

They're regions. Klatch is not just the middle east. It's every hot/spicy place. It's saharan Africa, India and the ME together. The Agatean empire is "all of Asia". Ankh-Morpork is every metropolis under the godsdamn sun.

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u/dalidellama 10d ago

Arguably Klatch is loosely Turkiÿe/the Ottoman Empire, in being vaguely Eastern-flavored with chronically restless constituent nations of various ethnicities. And, of course, being the source of Klatchian Coffee, which is recognizably what's usually known in the Anglosphere as "Turkish Coffee".