Pick up a copy of the official NES Game Atlas from Nintendo Power (published in 1991), and check out the Zelda II section:

It outright compares the original Legend of Zelda Overworld region to the scope of the Adventure of Link map, and it's gigantic, with the first game's map fitting into a tiny portion of the southwest of Hyrule.

The comic book map got the scale of the southern kingdom wrong (at least according to the in-game NES maps), as it shouldn't extend outward to the eastern islands like that, but otherwise, the general notion is still correct.

On the other hand, the scope of the southern kingdom as seen from Ocarina of Time onward better fits the comic map's notion of an expanded region there, so maybe the a bit of retconning is called for, here (and perhaps has already taken place).

I could certainly live with either version, myself, and in fact the comics map works much better in this context, particularly if you're a fan of the more recent games in the series.

Personally -- in light of OoT, TWW, and TP -- I'd now probably go for the comics map over the in-game one, as even the Nintendo designers themselves have retconned/changed things after the fact to better fit their current conceptions of the Zelda universe.


Pretty much, yup, similar to Ordon Province in Twilight Princess -- both have Links originating there, and journeying into Hyrule proper to take down Ganon, et cetera.

It's quite interesting that a story-concept from an early source like the Legend of Zelda comics would show up years later in a "modern" game of the series.

I've always held the Calatia backstory to be canonical, and this was unexpectedly validated by Twilight Princess's notion of other Links being born outside the kingdom, the same as the comics.

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