Now, while I do pride myself upon knowing a good amount of Geography, it does not extend to knowing the exact sparsely populated regions, filled with nothing but idyllic mountains/plains/hills/dead bodies etc outside my own country.

So I call upon you, nationals of Europe to illuminate me when it comes to your own country.

This is related to the map/encyclopaedia project you may or may not have seen.

Any help is much appreciated.

For now, although others would be noted for future reference, I was focusing on these countries/islands:

Ireland-since history is different, it can be either in the Republic of Ireland or in the territory held by Her Majesty.

Spain and Portugal-I would prefer it to be somewhere on the coast, but since it is unreallistic to consider any inch of coastline is not swamped with loud tourists, it can be inside the mainland as well.

Germany, Czech Republic, Austrian Empire*-due to the last war, and the necessity of maintaining an old place, I do ask it be concentrated around Berlin/Brandenburg, Praha or Vienna.

If you misunderstand me, you may consult Vlad-the-inhaler's far superior map to my measly efforts here.

*I know it's a republic, I merely like the ring of it...

Thank you in advance, eternal praises of the gods be upon you, may blah blah (insert dozens of well wishing for propaganda purposes.)

 

Google must be having a racist moment...

Thanks a great deal. I think I will be using the area east of the River Oder. It is sufficiently close to the traditional centre of power and empty enough for my purposes.

Since you responded first, Austria and the Czech Republic have become superfluous. Thus Germany has earned the right to host the capital of the Quirinal Gothic Magical Configuration...

Once more thank you for helping me out.

 

Oops sorry about that. Retarded moment and all. It's true wizards don't care much about Muggle borders. That is why I ask that no one gets annoyed at their countries being larger/smaller, non-existent or amalgamated.

Seeing as Grindewald lost in the west it would be naturally for the territory to be ceded to the victors. There was an eastern front, since if you do notice certain parts of Finland are now in the Khanate.

 

I think we all can appreciate a world where big bad Poland rules over Mitteleuropa.

"Not through speeches and majority decisions will the great questions of the day be decided - that was the great mistake of 1848 and 1849 - but by blood purity and wands" ~ Polish Representative to the International Federation of Warlocks.

 

As a German and more importantly somebody who has spent 18 years of his life in that part of Berlin, I have to disagree. Köpenick (I lived in Treptow, which is right next to it) is not scarcely populated at all. And even the unbuilt-on areas... I admit that it lacks the huge appartment buildings that make up some other parts of Berlin and has quite a few small woods... still, even if you go outside the "border" of Berlin into Brandenburg, there are smaller villages everywhere. You just have larger amounts of land surrounding the houses... you can't really say that it is unbuilt-on. Even in the woods, it is impossible to go far without finding one again. It's just too popular (epecially for families) to live there because it's close to Berlin (especially via public transport) and still "in the green". And especially away from Köpenick and Treptow those villages/towns almost overlap: You exit one and immediately enter the next.

Having finished being a smart-ass, I would also make the suggestion to look into the part north of Brandenburg - Mecklenburg Vorpommern. I went to the baltic sea by bike once (from Berlin) and I can really tell you - there are places where you feel like you are in the middle of nowhere. For the first maybe 30 or 40 kilometres going north, there still are quite a few. But as soon as you get beyond that... except for farms, you can go on kilometer after kilometer without seeing a village or whatever - and those then mostly consist of aforementioned farms. So if you want to stick a bit more to the "real" world concerning the borders of the countries and still be in Germany, you might want to look into that.

 

You didn't say anything different per se. But "I have to disagree" sounds way better than "Let me just expand what was said before". Way better!

 

Let me see if I get this right. The eastern coast is populated with large cities, obviously. The South has some large towns if I remember my geography, but the centre, west and north west are mostly unspoiled land?

 

Just remember BMW. (Border, midland, western.) Those are the least populated areas of Ireland.

The East(Leinsteir) is the most populated area.
Then the South(Munster) which houses the second largest city in Ireland, Cork.
Then the North(Ulster). You have to remember that Northern Ireland is under the UK except for 2 or 3 counties.
Finally the West(Cannaught).

Leinsteir houses the head of state.

Munster has the second biggest city in Ireland.

Ulster is mostly under British rule.

Cannaught got hit badly during the Famine. Emigration, deaths etc. lowered the population by a lot and there has been no real need to repopulate it due to it being mostly having infertile soil and the lack of jobs.