Talk:Geography of the World of Avatar/@comment-1.152.77.115-20110717010446/@comment-76.22.235.162-20120301224924

@Olorin The White Yeah, I know they confirmed that the four nations are all there are and that there's nothing on the other side of the world, but it still doesn't make sense. Part of it is that the world would be really tiny, the original poster made this clear. The circumference up there assumes this world is a little over half the size of earth, with the four nations only encompassing one hemisphere. Its a fact that Appa flies from the Northern Air Temple to the North pole in two days, and I feel like 50mph is a generous cruising speed for Appa (he's not exactly a plane, if he went much faster the passengers would have to strap themselves on), and 2000 miles is assuming he's had the minimum amount of sleep (4 hours per night). If the four nations are all there is then the world is far smaller than that, that's really small for a planet, it couldn't be more than a fourth the size of Earth (smaller than our moon). More than that though, the map doesn't look like a map of the world. The poles aren't located at the top like they should be, they are islands with a bit of distance from the actual top of the world, "poles" of the world, which should be frozen over with ice, like the ones on Earth and heck even the one's on Mars. Additionally, even if the world is small, this entire world shares a common language and even a similar cultures. We can't even do that amongst our continents, not to mention our world. Even the foggy swamp people, so isolated that they literally forgot about other the water tribes, speaks in the standard language, albeit with a slight accent. I think its more probable if the the place was just one continent of a much larger world, much like southern Asia/Australia, but more in the center of the world, so the Water nation would receive heavy snowfall and still be covered in glaciers.