The Lands of Ice and Fire - the maps of Game of Thrones

These are the official maps of Game of Thrones, created for The Lands of Ice and Fire. They are canon – and the only maps to cover the east of Essos, including everything from Qarth to Asshai. They were created for Random House, from the hand drawn maps of George RR Martin, In 2012 I was commissioned to illustrate the official maps of Westeros and Essos for the world of Game of Thrones. Each map is 3 feet by 2 feet in size, 72 square feet of maps in total. If you’d like to know more about the process behind the maps, click through to read the articles. The maps are all © George RR Martin, 2012, used with permission Warning – the last map contains spoilers as it shows the character journeys up to the end of A Dance With Dragons.

The Known World – The first entire map of Game of Thrones

The Official World map for Game of Thrones

The Known World from Westeros to far Asshai

The entire world map of Game of Thrones stretches past the Bone Mountains that divide Essos down the middle, over to the far East. Those distant lands include Asshai, in the Land under Shadow, with the mysterious and luminous ghost grass, as well as Carcosa, and Leng – both Lovecraft references that make it into Game of Thrones on the very edge of the world. The details get sparser as you travel further east, not because of a lack of people – Yi Ti is replete with rich farmed land – but due to sparsity of knowledge. This map is created from the perspective of a Maester of Oldtown, and details on the far side of the world are filled in with more guesswork than perfect knowledge. There are more details of the map, and description of how it was created, here.

The Free Cities of Braavos, Pentos, Myr and Lys

The Free Cities – Braavos, Pentos, Myr and the Narrow Sea

Map of Central Essos – including the Bone Mountains and the Red Waste

Central Essos – from Valyria to Qarth, Ib and the Bone Mountains

Map of North of the Wall – with all the Castles of the Night’s Watch

The Lands Beyond the Wall for George RR Martin's Lands of Ice and Fire, mapping the lands of the Free People including the Skirling Pass, Craster's Keep and the castles from Castle Black to Eastwatch by the Sea

From Castle Black and the Skirling Pass, all the way north to the valley of Thenn and the Lands of Always Winter

Slaver’s Bay – showing Meereen, Yunkai, and Astapor

Official Slaver's Bay map for Game of Thrones

Slaver’s Bay – Astapor, Yunkai and Meereen

The West – including the Narrow Sea, and the Summer Isles

Map of the West for George RR Martin's series A Song of Ice and Fire, detailing Westeros, the Summer Isles, the free cities and the Narrow Sea

The West – from the Summer Isles to the far north

The City of King’s Landing – from Flea Bottom, to the Red Keep

King’s Landing – with details of the Red Keep, Baelor’s Sept, the Dragon Pit and the Blackwater

The East – with details of the Land Under Shadow, and Asshai

The East, we finally answer the question – where is Asshai? – and also discover Uthos, Yi Ti, the City of Bloodless Men and the Thousand Islands

The Map of the Dothraki Sea and the Red Waste

The Dothraki Sea – from the city of Volantis to the ruins on which Vaes Dothrak is built.

Map of the Free City of Braavos

Official map of the city of Braavos for Game of Thrones

The Free City of Braavos with details of the House of Black and White, The Ragman’s Harbor, the Titan and the Sealord’s Palace

The Westeros Map – all the Castles and Kingdoms of Game of Thrones

Map of Westeros – the Seven Kingdoms riven by the Game of Thrones

Journeys – a map of the routes travelled by all characters

Spoilers – this last map shows the character paths to the end of A Dance With Dragons. Look away now if you don’t want to know the score.

Journeys map of the character routes for Game of Thrones

Journeys – the lifelines of Game of Thrones – up to the end of A Dance with Dragons

Click on any of the maps for close up details and more information on how they were drawn. And you can pick up the posters here.

58 thoughts on “The Lands of Ice and Fire – the maps of Game of Thrones”

Eric says: April 24, 2013 at 2:57 am I bought these maps and they are great. However, they obviously are too cumbersome to look at unless you are at home. Will there be a digital version that can be zoomed in on via a tablet? Also would be nice if you could select whose journeys you wish to see and all others disappear. Reply Jon says: April 24, 2013 at 7:48 am As far as I know these will always be physical only. However, the full resolution files exist, so its possible that an app could be created in the future. Reply Elena says: April 25, 2013 at 8:59 am Do you know where I can find the full resolution files? Reply Jon says: April 25, 2013 at 10:20 am The full resolution files are © George RR Martin, and are in his and Random House’s hands. Only they have the rights to post the full resolution files. To see these in their full glory, you need to pick them up in a store. I’m afraid that’s the term of the contract for work like this! Reply danslesastres says: July 12, 2013 at 6:32 pm Aamzings maps. Westeros, and his wolrd are very fascinating. And this word are wonderful, congratulations ! Reply Tyler Durden says: August 4, 2013 at 12:39 am Unreal work! Very detailed and accurate! It’s amazing what you’ve done to help breathe life into my favorite fantasy world! Everyone I know who is a fan of ASOIAF wanted to see/own maps of Westeros and beyond while reading the series and now we can! Thank you so much! Reply Stephen says: August 7, 2013 at 5:02 pm Do you think you could release the set in book form? Great for a collection a much easier for reference when reading. Reply Jon says: August 7, 2013 at 5:29 pm Not my call I’m afraid. That’s a Random House issue. I know that the World of Ice and Fire will be coming out later in the year, probably in time for Christmas, which might be closer to a true Atlas. Reply Pingback: Reseña: The KOBOLD guide to worldbuilding Pingback: Il trono di spade di George R.R. Martin per principianti | librolandia Kenny says: October 28, 2013 at 3:58 pm Is that possible to get a unfolded copy so that I can put it in the frame? Reply Jon says: October 28, 2013 at 11:10 pm I’m afraid not. As far as I know, the only versions available are folded. I rather like the folds personally, as all the maps I grew up with were folded, and once it’s in a frame I don’t notice them. Reply Kent says: November 26, 2013 at 10:34 pm Hi, I bought these maps and they are absolutely beautiful. Wonderful job. Any possibility of getting the Tolkien publishers to have you do a map set like this for Middle Earth? Reply Jon says: November 26, 2013 at 10:37 pm Thanks a lot. I’m so glad you’re enjoying them! Unfortunately I think that Middle Earth maps are pretty much sewn up 🙂 But I’d definitely say yes if they asked. Reply Jusays: December 3, 2013 at 11:19 am Too bad they’re not available digitally and zoom-able ( without having to download them for the copyright reasons you mentioned ). I mean, I am obviously a GoT reader and would love to have a closer look at the places G.R.R. Martins mention in his books without buying having a poster that would be hard to find anyway.. They look absolutely stunning by the way, you did such a great job really ! Reply Jon says: December 3, 2013 at 11:48 am You can get a closer look of some of these in the official Ice and Fire app from Random House. But otherwise, it’s a Barnes and Noble trip (or Amazon). Glad you like them! Reply Armando Ortiz says: December 3, 2013 at 11:47 am Would be funny if there was a Google Streetview version…I can just imagine the car getting jumped at The Twins and stabbed in the eye a few times – with regards from the Lannisters, of course… 😉 Reply Jon says: December 3, 2013 at 11:50 am Some crazy people have taken a lot of this and mapped it in Minecraft. So Streetview isn’t actually that farfetched! Reply RangerJim says: October 14, 2014 at 3:31 pm Having been “Streetviewed” about a month back (I saw the car go and I wondered if they’d get me, as I was sitting in the shadows waiting for my ride to come and they sure did! Blurred my face, but anyone who knows me would certainly recognize my “boonie hat.” 😉 Reply Stuart Murray says: December 3, 2013 at 1:05 pm Seems to me the full map is still incomplete, but maybe that is by design since there are still two books left. Will there be further updates? Reply Jon says: December 3, 2013 at 2:09 pm The map is of the known world, rather than the full globe. The world map should be current for all the books to the end – but the map of Journeys will be outdated once the series continues. Reply Stuart Murray says: December 3, 2013 at 2:21 pm So more dragons could still exist outside the known lands. 🙂 Reply Jon says: December 3, 2013 at 2:23 pm It’s a big world 🙂 Reply Pingback: WIRED’s Interview with Jonathon Roberts | ars phantasia Pingback: Your cell phone is giving you up | drakeequation Pingback: Data Viz News [36] | Visual Loop Pingback: Monthly Maps: November & December 2013 « geohackers David Eoll says: February 1, 2014 at 12:15 pm @Kent, Pauline Baynes (RIP) did a splendid map poster of Middle Earth which I owned at one time. Try eBay. And, Jon, wonderful maps! Thank you! Reply Jon says: February 1, 2014 at 12:25 pm You’re welcome! And good call on the Pauline Baynes map. Reply Pingback: Mapas del mundo de Juego de Tronos | másquesig Point.Less says: January 10, 2015 at 2:28 pm No you didn’t! Whaaaat? I am a HUGE fan of A Song of Ice and Fire! That was you???? Consider me a whorshiper from now on. Reply Point.Less says: January 10, 2015 at 2:30 pm Do you watch the show? Read the books? Reply Jon says: January 10, 2015 at 2:41 pm Of course I do! I read them around 2000/2001 initially, then again around 2008. I had to get Storm of Swords on audiobook so I could catch up whilst illustrating these. Reply Jaimeleo Maldonado Romero says: April 26, 2015 at 1:23 am interesante, muy original Reply Mrs.Grumpy says: May 16, 2015 at 1:05 pm Can I ask a little question? Do you know why the Hidden Sea is darker than other inland seas of the world? Is it because it’s deeper or just artistic preference? And why is Sea of Sighs is pinkish? Please answer these if you have information regarding them. Thank you! Reply Jon says: May 16, 2015 at 3:09 pm It was clearly communicated to me that they should be, but not why. Sorry! Reply Sarah says: May 28, 2015 at 9:53 pm I finally just bought these for my husband for our one year anniversary and I absolutely cannot wait for them to get here!! I bought these as much for myself as I did for him 🙂 haha! Fantastic work, I’m fascinated! Reply Jon says: May 28, 2015 at 10:07 pm I hope you love them! Reply Pingback: “Game of Thrones”-Podcast: Ep. 5.01: “The Wars to Come” | Fortsetzung.tv kevin e. smith says: June 2, 2015 at 5:30 pm i love theses i have them the only problem is there is no scale, for war games purposes. i have no clue how far anything is Reply Jon says: June 2, 2015 at 7:42 pm You’ll find no maps have scales on for these lands. That’s intentional. But if you take the wall as 300 miles, that’s a good start. Reply Tom Price-Nicholson says: April 24, 2016 at 4:00 am Another good scale is the distance from Yunkai to Meereen. Daenerys goes past 163 mileposts along the road, so the distance is 163 miles. Reply hello says: December 27, 2015 at 7:46 am Does anyone else notice that Westeros and The Eastern Kingdoms (in Azeroth) are very similar? Reply Dallas says: February 9, 2016 at 11:24 pm Hey Jon, do you do any freelance work? Reply Jon says: February 13, 2016 at 12:35 pm I do – but pretty busy just now. Reply Dallas says: February 20, 2016 at 10:06 pm That’s understandable, I wont take up too much of your time, im looking to see if you would be interested in gameboard map design. If you have some time to chat about it let me know. Thanks!! Reply Cptnf says: March 30, 2016 at 5:07 pm Hi, I am curious how kept the proportions same for all the different maps. I am in the process of digitalising my own maps for an rpg campaign I am making, and I want to have one World Map as well as several local maps. I want to have the proportions and scales on the local maps as accurate as possible to the world map. I noticed you were able to keep the coastlines and the general geography true to the world map in the local ones. At the moment I have landed on using vectors as guidelines for the different maps, but I am no photoshop pro and would love to learn how you did it with these maps. Reply Lex says: April 26, 2016 at 11:45 am Hey Jon, Any chance on you making any map makers for the book characters? I know Dark Horse has made some but they only cover the houses in Westeros and not all of them. May be a good market for this considering it would be fun to reread the books and move the markers around these maps while reading. Reply Lex says: April 26, 2016 at 3:03 pm markers* Reply Tom Price-Nicholson says: May 3, 2016 at 5:04 am I’ve just got these maps and they are amazing. If you sent the OS map guys to Westeros they couldn’t have done a better job. Thanks so much for making them. Reply JDsays: August 21, 2017 at 4:36 pm Hi Jon, these maps are amazing! I don’t know if you monitor these comments anymore, but thought I’d let you know… For the “A World of Ice and Fire” Android app, the map of “The Known World” has a typo, with “The Milkwater” spelt as “The Milkwaer” instead. Reply Jon says: August 27, 2017 at 4:17 pm Ha, thanks! That typo must have been there from the start. There’s so many labels… Reply Enola of Game of Hodor says: October 4, 2017 at 11:18 pm Congratulations for this! I know it took them a lot of effort just to make an extensive map just like this one. It is really a job well done and it looks great too! My dad is a huge fan of game of thrones as well as my boyfriend. I hope these are available in the market for it would be a perfect gift and a collectible for them. Reply ajohn020 says: December 22, 2017 at 4:24 pm Hi there. I was wondering if it would be okay to use the images of essos, ulthos and sothoryos for a youtube video I hope to make. Would it be okay to use these images? Reply Jon says: April 12, 2020 at 5:56 pm I’m afraid not – GRRM owns the copyright to these. Reply Matt Zi says: October 18, 2018 at 9:27 am Your work is awesome! Using this all for some inspiration and tips for my current map project. Reply Jenny says: March 5, 2019 at 7:48 pm Are “The West”, “The East” and “Central Essos” the same scale, relative to each other? Reply Jon says: April 12, 2020 at 5:45 pm Roughly. The East and Central Essos are at the same scale. The West is a slightly different scale to fit to the map better. So you can’t quite line these up side by side to one big map. Reply