User blog comment:Jimeee/The continents of Nirn scaled to those of earth - according to Michael Kirkbride/@comment-5558140-20131204075100

i don't like to think of the in-game size's as the actual sizes of the provinces/continents, but more of a representation of them. the TES univesrse is most "alive" in the hearts and minds of the fans and writers, the games are only representing it the best way they can. one day it might be fully realized where we have game worlds the size of real world continents (ESO?!?!). its awesome info though, it seems wholly unrealistic to manage an empire 3-4 times the size of Rome for thousands of years without having it collapse into itself. how exactly did they scale the size of these? we have definite in-game confirmations of how large skyrim, cryodiil, etc.. are but not an actual continental scale size of how large they are.