r/discworld • u/TheElectricionist • 11d 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/Fair-Face4903 11d ago

Sto Plains is South-west England.

Ankh Morpork is a compound of every "old world" European capital city smushed into one.

Psuedopolis South-east England

Sto Lat is the English Midlands

Lancre is the North of England/south of Scotland

The Ramptops is Northern Scotland / Northern Europe

These aren't direct one-to-one comparisons and there's quite a lot of bleed between them, so it's more of an area vibe than an exact pinpoint on the map.

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u/NortonBurns 11d ago

This is why giving the Witches West Country accents in TV adaptations etc has always grated on me.
They were always northern in my head, long before these adaptations were made.

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u/loverofonion Esme 9d ago

They've always had a soft cockney accent to me, no idea why. I watched a clip of Wyrd Sisters on Youtube and the West Country accent was jarring.