User blog:Shadow at Morning/Determination of the Size of Vale via Cartographic Analysis

Introduction
Remnant, the planet on which RWBY takes place, is a world ripe for analysis. The confinement of humanity to four cities on the entire planet makes presents an interesting problem in the field of fictional geography and cartography. Vale is a major location on Remnant, the site of the first several seasons, and is thus both an important area of study and the most easily performed, due to the existence of city maps. From the existing maps, we can determine the approximate size of the city.

Previous work in the field by The Devil's Advocate WP and DiegoAnime3000 have provided insight into both the basic geographic features of Remnant [1][2] and the determination of the locations of the Kingdoms [3]. However, as yet, there have been very few analyses of the size of both the planet and the Kingdom of Vale. Subsequent critique of a previous analysis revealed significant flaws in the underlying assumptions that resulted in underrepresenting the size of Vale by orders of magnitude [4].