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Geographical introduction to Laltīmāhia
This public article was written by [Deactivated User], and last updated on 31 Jul 2016, 09:16.
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Laltīmāhia is a small planet. The Tālliyāia, jungles, deserts, plains, mountains... millions of people with many different cultures, and many different languages... yet everything is Ćhlegdarim! It can't be discovered in a single life.
Laltīmāhia - officially known as Laltīmāhei høgyṃhjøðeyaięe yāraṃhęiʔaltia, or the Inquisitorial Republic of Laltīmāhia, is the largest and most populated country on Calémere.
Its core area - known as the tadmahiekęe maḍyai, contiguous territories - is formed by the southern third of the continent of Isungatsuaq (Kaissmūhai) and its continental islands, plus some islands in the Great Ocean (Nemiðārṭya) to the East - most notably Tāhiańśīma, second-largest island on the planet, and the Kahømi islands (Kahømi ga tėtiar) off its northeastern tip -, other lone oceanic island groups - the Skūlgatnir in the southwest and the Kāṭilayāram in the northwest - and three archipelagoes geographically part of the continent of Védren (Ilūmanūk), commonly referred to as the "Limits of Védren" - Ilūmanūki cāṃkraya.
The mainland part alone may be included inside a quadrilateral figure with its northern tip at 41ºN, its southern one at 6ºS, its eastern one at 15ºE and its western tip at 90ºW.
The contiguous territories have an area of roughly 14 million km2 and a population that, at the last census two years ago in 4E 131, amounted at more than 1,4 billion people. In addition to these, Laltīmāhia includes some various external territories in other parts of the planet.
Chlegdarim culture, while being born in the extreme southeastern corner of this large area - mostly in today's dioceses of Lelīmëyaia and Hjøtechilak - has been shaped differently in various areas as the Chlegdarims, driven by religious zeal, conquered in the timeframe of 1700 years this enormous territory, which includes a vast variety of biological areas and climates. The original core was a mostly swampy and marshy coastal area, the outer limit of the largest rainforest on Calémere, the Tālliyāia, 60% of which is the basin of the Tallahāria river, second-longest river and second-largest basin on Calémere. The rainforest area is still today virgin and as a whole sparsely populated, but on the riverbanks, delta areas, and ocean shores there are some of the largest cities and metropolitan areas of the whole planet: Kaylamārśikha, in Lelīmëyaia diocese, is the capital city of Laltīmāhia, holy city of the Yūnialtia and largest city proper of the world, with 18 million people (26 million in its metropolitan area); Ilėnimarta, some 400 km northeast, in Lanturlīṭa, is the second-largest city (15 million people) and Līlta, 900 km west from the capital, is the third-largest city in Laltīmāhia with 12 million inhabitants. Other large coastal metropoles are Līṭhalyinām (9.5M) and Lūlunimarta (8M); the largest inland city in the rainforest is Pamahīnėna, inhabited by 1.2 million people.
The most populated area is however the hiyan - the Plain. While strictly referring to the Lāmiejāya basin - largest basin on the planet, and the river itself is the longest one - it refers to the whole mostly non-forested region from 12º to 25ºN and 5º to 37ºW (though its southernmost and easternmost areas are part of the Tallahāria rainforest or other rainforest areas). It is the agricultural heartland of the country and contains many of the largest cities and urban areas: the largest city proper is Kāmilehomma, fourth largest city of Laltīmāhia with 11.2 million people; the largest metropolitan area is however the conurbation of central Hūmiębhāraya diocese, which, with nearly 50 million inhabitants, is by far the largest metropolitan area on the planet; its largest city, Cami (which was the first major settlement of the Chlegdarims at the time of the Plain region's conquest), is the sixth-largest city of the country, with 9 million inhabitants. Other large major cities are Galiāk (6M, the largest inland city of Laltīmāhia), Liliańcāṃkraya (5.7M, 150km southeast from Galiāk), Kamigayūna (4.5M, largest city in the somewhat more arid and more sparsely populated western part of the plain) and Cahiadonna (4M, largest city in the southern plain).
The Hjūdalak mountains (Hjūdalak ga nahiei) divide the Tālliyāia and the plain from the western desert (Samvāli dilta), a large but sparsely populated area with only a few major cities in river valleys and oasis. The northeastern branch of this chain, the Kėlameið mountains (Kėlameið ga nahiei), which include the highest mountains on Calémere, divide the plain from the arid desert of the Mūneylāhe endorheic basin. North of the plain and northeast of this basin, still on the eastern coast of the continent, there's the North (altyńjāran), which has similar land use as the plain - albeit less populated -, but includes important cities like Hīmbamurta, largest city in this area, with 7 million inhabitants, Chlou (3.6M) and Līlekhaite (3.2M).
The northwest is a sparsely populated but culturally distinct region of Laltīmāhia, and it is subdivided in two areas, too: its southwestern part was mostly a Dabuke land until 600 years ago and was one of the last areas of Laltīmāhia to be "chlegdarimized"; this is a mostly hilly savannah area with some more rugged (though not very high) mountains between some of the valleys, often progressively drier the more one travels inland. Khāracaṃkraya, in the south of this area, is the largest northwestern city with 4.1 million people; Kuma-Nimalsshia, a seaport on the estuary of the Imbandu river at the border with the republic of Inzoba, is another regionally important city with 2.5 million people.
The northeastern part of the Northwest mostly consists of the large Kātvanė Sea (Kātvanė ga dumit), the largest endorheic lake on Calémere, a little more than half of which is part of Laltīmāhia; this area is mostly sparsely inhabited steppe, with most of the population concentrated in the heavily cultivated areas along rivers and near the lake. The far northern part of the contiguous territories is occupied by the two dioceses of Vøleyīpaṇa and Utalāniya and consists of yet other endorheic basins, only annexed to Laltīmāhia about 100 years ago; these areas are thinly populated, with most of the population concentrated on the south shore of the Golden Lake (Valtainūrtāl) in southern Vøleyīpaṇa. The Iron Mountains (Haikøri nahiei) cut Utalāniya roughly in half; the northern part has only a few thousand inhabitants and its northern border at 41ºN is with the last remaining orcish land on Calémere outside polar and subpolar areas; orcs and Chlegdarims have however got along well in the last 90 years and there are actually many orcish settlements in northern Utalāniya and in the Iron Mountains.
The last truly distinct area in the contiguous territories is the macroregion of Samvālkaissmūhai - Western Isungatsuaq -. It includes four dioceses which do not share a land border with the rest of the contiguous dioceses, but do share a sea border in the east. The three dioceses on the eastern side of the Keideta mountains (Keideta ga nahiei) were colonized by the Ćhlegdarims more or less at the same time as most of the Northwest; the diocese of Gūtambāśi is a special case, however, as it is the only diocese of Laltīmāhia designed as a tālaṃhøląińańa - "diocese with foreign majority". It only became a part of Laltīmāhia 80 years ago, and its population is for 75% member of the Bazá (Baśa in
Laceyiam) ethnic group, the same of the bordering independent nation of Ɛnὲk bazá, one of the poorest countries on Calémere, in stark contrast to Laltīmāhia.
1: Kaylamārśikha — 2: Ilėnimarta — 3: Līlta — 4: Līṭhalyinām — 5: Lūlunimarta — 6: Pamahīnėna — 7: Kāmilehomma — 8: Cami — 9: Galiāk — 10: Liliańcāṃkraya — 11: Kamigayūna — 12: Ćahiadonna — 13: Hīmbamurta — 14: Chlou — 15: Līlekhaite — 16: Khāracāṃkraya — 17: Kuma-Nimalsshia
Note that the above image is an excerpt of a still work-in-progress map, that's the reason why the borders of all other countries and the terrain of other continents are lacking. ✎ Edit Article ✖ Delete Article
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