World Map

World Map covers all the areas in the game. You can use it to navigate across long distances.

Baldur's Gate & Tales of the Sword Coast
The developers gave all of these locations colorful names, but not all are visible in-game. With a few exceptions, such as the Cloakwood forests, the names below are either the displayed names, or an unequivocal description of their geographical location which aids navigation; the more evocative names are shown in their respective articles.

Canon is real life politics in the service of imaginary things that can be fun, and makes them not; Baldur's Gate game is surely not seen as canon by some Forgotten Realms players. It is a matter of dispute whether areas in the game belong to Western Heartlands, or Amn. Some player are ambivalent and subscribe to more expansive of definitions of the Western Heartlands with the border line at Beregost, which roughly divides the Sword Coast up into Western Heartlands and Amn. One can also see the Coast as merging from Amn into Heartlands, or that the Heartlands stop at Baldur's Gate, etc etc. Finally, Amn and the Heartlands can be seen as being divided, with Sword Coast in between as its own entity.

Categories on this wiki are currently arranged according to the latter viewpoint. There is no strict rule here, only an aesthetic rationale: it is kind of nice for all of the areas in Baldur's Gate game to be in Sword Coast; for the Sword Coast to have its own town, Beregost; for the areas around Baldur's Gate City to be in Western Heartlands, and for Amn's borders to be on the same latitude as Nashkel.

Disc 1, the north part of Disc 2, Disc 4 and Baldur's Gate itself are both Sword Coast and Western Heartlands, Disc 3 is Amn. The rest are Sword Coast areas.and Tales of the Sword Coast areas.

Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear
In Siege of Dragonspear, you can't freely access all maps each chapter, instead, each chapter has a set of maps for you to explore.