Tatooine's Map Explained: Geography, Distances, Major Points of Interest | Star Wars Lore
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- Tatooine is an Outer Rim planet and as such, while it plays a major role in Star Wars, not much is known about its layout. Today, we get out the map and breakdown where the points of interest on the planet are located, from Mos Espa to Anchorhead.
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I was watching Attack of the Clones yesterday and when Anakin was on Tatooine looking for his mother he rode a speeder bike through an area with gigantic rock formations. I always wondered where on the planet that was
Almost certainly somewhere in the Jundland Wastes.
Why has my original comment disappeared. Its
B,Thazoshe Bridge. Located in the jungleland wastes.
He streeted a speeder bike too. I believe he also boulevards on speeder bikes now and then as well. But he definitely never rode his speeder bike on roads though; too many accidents.
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That happens to me on occasion as well sometimes I think the algorithm decides I said something wrong. But other times it seems random. I saw a forum where it was discussed that it had something to do with cookies on the phone somehow interfering.
West, it’s all west
I saw some people saying “wow i didn’t think tatooine had so many people”
So I did a bit of research, the Sahara desert has about 2 MILLION people mostly in nomadic groups
Taking the square miles of the Sahara and placing it on the northern tatooine- it’s entirely reasonable tatooine could have 50 million people spread out and centered in some of its cities
Still not anything like earth or even a fair chunk of countries but not exactly empty
Could make the argument that it's space-desert Canada, with large population centers surrounded by low density rural areas, and overall underpopulated for its size.
@@eldorados_lost_searcher I mean the way the Sahara pop is counted- that could just be tusken tribes ALONE
As far as I can tell the count I looked up doesn’t consider places like Ciro or Alexandria
Populations in Star Wars tend to be peculiarly low, most of the time. I mean, there were only about 2 million clone troopers, right?
I mean 2 million people for a land mass the size of the US seems pretty small, considering the US has like 300 mill. But being in the deserts a whole different story
@@Penultimeat More than that... I do believe the senate approved more 10 million (there is an episode about it but I don't remember). Also some planets would lend their own forces to the republic like the Wookies and Mandalorians... Clone legions (10 thousand clones) weren't deployed on mass they were divided by Companies, Battalion, Brigade and Regiments... For example the 501st could be at Geonosis with 2~3 and in Fellucia with another 2~3 battalions and still have enough force to reinforce and join new theaters.
The weirdest thing for me is that Jabba's Palace is apparently easy walking distance from Mos Espa, when I (and all the maps) pictured it far away from everything else.
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If Tatoonie is around 80% the size of Earth then it has a circumference of about 32,000km. With Ben's house to the Lar's homestead being around 130km (8:05), the map in this video is showing about the same amount of area as Belgium would on the Earth's map. There is whole lot more to the planet even if only the northern hemisphere is inhabited.
totally, the area by the north pole where it's cooler is fantastic! There's an amusement park where you can visit "Earth land." However, instead of building New York or London, they build Des Moines, Iowa. Missed opportunity in my opinion.
Does anyone know why Obi Wan lived so far away from the Lars Honestead? Wouldn’t it have been easier to keep a cautiously distant eye on Luke from a nearer place?
@@LeonSKennedy7777 probably because if anyone found out a jedi was on the planet it would put all nearby people (Luke) in danger
@@LeonSKennedy7777 you ever put down a spawn beacon, and that one bone headed teammate chooses to shoot right next to it? Yeah it would be impractical if Uncle Ben lived anywhere near Luke
@@OlieWoli I see.. good point
When she points to the map, she shows Mos Isley above Mos Espa and then says “UP around here is Mos Pelgo.” She may have been showing him the map with south facing up, which might mean that Mos Pelgo is in or beyond the Northern Dune Sea.
Actually, based on the actual locations of Mos Espa and Mos Eisley relative to one another, I believe that what we're calling "east" on the map is "up".
@@GenerationFilms that makes sense
@@GenerationFilms it looked like she spun the map a bit sideways aswell so i´d say north north/east ish, maybe
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Love the usage of images from Star Wars Galaxies, and especially that shot from Star Wars Commander!!! Commander was a HUGELY underrated Mobile game I had a chance to partake in 😎
Bro the city hall in Book of Boba Fett is the same building as the city halls used for guild cities in Galaxies. I swear. I have no evidence except it looks like it, and I swear the layout is even the same. Hell, the whole city kinda looks like Mos Espa in Galaxies, I think.
I never knew much about Tatooine's map but it's cool to know!👍
Seems odd that kenobi would be "watching over" Luke from so far way. Especially when it didn't appear he had a speeder to hop on over to check up on the boy.
I sort of just assumed he could use the force to sense if he was doing okay
@@oliviaw.2842 I feel like Han Solo saying "that's not how the Force works" right now.
We know the Jedi had some minor amount of precognition as well as a certain degree of sensing when things were off, but even with those abilities I imagine Kenobi would still want to be close so that if danger *did* come he could act quickly. He doesn't appear to own a speeder, hates flying so that would rule out any sort of aircraft, and made a point of not using his Force powers in any visible way which would certainly prevent him using it to run quickly.
My point here is that even if he could sense danger, he couldn't act on it in a reasonable amount of time if he's living some 130 kilometres away. That would still take some time to travel even if he had a vehicle, and days if he was on foot. We know he acted when Black Krrsantan attacked but he didn't do much when the Storm Troopers turned up to kill Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru, so unless he specifically let them die its fair to say he probably should have been closer so he could act sooner.
We will probably find out in the Obi Wan series.
Yea doesn't make sense for Ben's house to be there. Luke said "I can take you as far as Anchorhead" meaning it was on the way, but they have Anchorhead further than Mos Eisley from Ben's house. Only way for that to make sense is if they were closer to Anchorhead than Eisley.
@@Kanglar As far as he dare go to Mos Eisley maybe. I'm sure Luke had been told to stay away from there.
I think "Book of Boba Fett" makes this map no longer valid. The biggest issue I can point to is that Mos Espa is apparently within easy walking distance from Jabba/Boba's palace. Boba always seems to be walking to town, but even if you presume he takes a speeder part of the way, Chapter 2 shows Fennec Shand bringing the captured assassin back to the palace on foot.
Or Din leaving Mos Eisley and immediately goes into Beggars Canyon
I've got a theory for that. Boba has his ship when he becomes Daimyo and Mos Espa IS a port town.
One day, nothing disney has made will be cannon. We will take the gold flakes from the pile of dust and waste and piece together a new cannon that better reflects the spirit of the franchise while paying proper homage to it's past.
Judging by your maps, Mos Pelgo seems to be Northeast or so from Espa. It seems Pelly's map is inverted with Eisley on the top and Espa on the bottom. Following her scrolling of the map would put the town in that direction. This would also account for her saying "up over here" in the dialogue.
They always seem to walk right down the road from Jabba palace but it's pretty far to town which I wonder why Boba and Fenn walk so far in the heat? No wonder Noone takes them seriously. And now I really feel for the litterbearers of the twins.
I would imagine they hid a speeder somewhere nearby off camera to keep it from being looted by some nearby criminal in every instance of someone walking up to Jaba's door. He is a crime lord after all, his place of operation is not likely to be in a very polished area where law and order reign supreme.
Early sources and reference books placed Jabba's Palace on the edge of the Western Dune Sea near Wayfar. Eversince the complete locations came out - which originally came out in 2004 (Original trilogy release), not 2016, it has since been placed near the Northern Dune Sea. I've been figuring out maps of Tatooine for at least 2 years now and I'm actively illustrating my own book with detailed drawings of settlements, based both on Canon and legends. Thanks for the video, it's a niche hobby of mine so i love any video that covers some of this topic.
Very cool! I share your love of maps.
Pretty convincing. The only thing that leaves me wondering is that except for Mos Pelgo, that's a LOT of geography within a very small radius of kilometres.
I know it's a wasteland planet, and the 'cities' are all tiny, but that's basically most of offworld settlement within a radius being measured in tens or a couple of hundred kilometres.
There is a science fiction prediction that if habitable planets are abundant and space travel fast and cheap people will spread out. The planets never really fill up. Once you feel pressured by something; war, taxes, rules you go to a remote corner of the planet or find an empty planet. The exception is of course the capital world like Coruscant. A capital draws in people, rich and poor, that want to be close to power.
Tatooine was base on Dune's Arrakis which also had a very small "habitable zone" protected from severe heat and sandworms thanks to the mountain formations and rocky ground.
Love all the information you are putting into these videos, I definitely learned something!
1:58 I have a 2017 version of that book. With same map. Also on the pages for mos espa/Tatooine II is a Small square shape map showing Tatooine locations.
Hey actually a good video and great information for those of us watching mandalorian and the Book of Boba Fet. Thanks
There's some inconsistencies with the now - Legends Shadows of the Empire story, where Ben's house was at the end of Beggars Canyon which also was outside Mos Eisely. Granted, that is a 25 year old story pre-dating even the prequel trilogy
True that, @Naughty Ned Flanders , although I tend to reconcile that by saying Beggar's Canyon is part of a network of old river canyons running down much of the Jundland Wastes, and terminating near Anchorhead, after an old river delta (and the Stone Needle, too, from games like Rogue Squadron 3D) And that several share the same name, as a result.
Tatooine is a desert planet because it has so little water.
But despite having 2 suns its not that hot.
Its Luke warm.
The map/locations/distances are covered in quite alot of detail in the old game Star Wars Galaxies :)
I miss playing Star Wars:Galaxies. That game was so awesome!!!
and it seems, SWTOR gets complete Ignored!
@@silentxero5955 Star Was Galaxies is still playable, and by which ever version you prefer. SWGEmu = CU version, SWG Legends = NGE version (for example). ProjectSWG (NGE version) has been an ongoing rebuild from the ground up ever since the original was put down, but the previous two mentioned here have been running since ~2012, all free to play as long as you have the original CDs of the game.
(edit) Overall though, SWG does have a pretty extensive/detailed map of Tatoonie for the planet, along with Naboo, Dathomir, Endor, Rori, Lok, Corellia, Talus, Dantooine, Yavin IV, Kashyyyk, Mustafar, and now Bespin/Cloud City.
It makes no sense for Ben's hut to be ~150km away from the Lars homestead. How is he supposed to watch over Luke while living so far away?
If you are interested in the answer to that question, I recommend you read the book 'Kenobi'.
@@juanst1 I love that book, but it has been a while since I read it. I'll have to take a look at it again.
Also, Luke offers to take Kenobi “as far as Anchorhead”, where he can “catch a transport to Mos Eisley or wherever it is you’re going”. Why take him so far away to Anchorhead when Mos Eisley is right nearby?
@@TokyoXtreme looking at Maps i have anchor head is not that far away from where Luke lives & moss eisley is further and they're not really in a different direction.
I don't think that they have speed limits for the speeder bikes and land speeders.
Thank You! Excellent map review. Tatooine locations make more sense to me know.
The SWG screenshots are making me all nostalgic. 🤧
Tatooine is probably my favourite star wars planet
This is a good map, but I would estimate that everything is much too close to everything, but sometimes overstated and out of scale. Mos Espa should be thousands of miles from Mos Eisley, but Ben's house and Tosche Station and Luke's home should all be relatively close to each other, but all about several hundred miles from Mos Eisley. But it is just my estimation.
TOSH station? REALLY?? Did you NEVER watch the first ever movie? TOSH-EEE Station is how it's pronounced.
Yeah.. I think he got the map and wookieepedia she made a video.
The thing I've always thought was questionable is the map in the mandalorian when the mechanic chick is explaining where mos espa is and she says "then you got Mos espa up over here." And then clearly scrolls the map down.
Eastward is up in that scene.
@@GenerationFilms what tells you that? Is there a compass on that map that i missed?
North does NOT mean up, and down doesn't mean south. That's a man-made construct here on our world, and likely wouldn't be a universal constant. Assuming that "this is the way we know it, so that's the way it has to be" is just...arrogant.
@@Bad_Wolf_Media up and down being north and south would be an even more important constant in a Star wars universe. Assuming north and south as up and down, is how maps work, nothing arrogant about that. Arrogant, would be thinking maps should work in any other way. But hey, being an arrogant prick on the internet is all you have.
Very Interesting answered alot of questions much thanks.
This was awesome!! Thank you!!
I love that you are using SWG screen shots
Good overview, thanks!
That's a lot to learn from one little man LOL thanks for sharing it was very very interesting and I've been a Star Wars fan since 1977 when it first started May the force be with you
The book of boba fett definitely makes it seem like Mos Espa is right in the Palaces back yard. It seems like such a hike to rule over a territory 100s of miles from your headquarters.
was thinking the same thing, especially when the Gamorian guards had to help Boba Fett back to the palace and bacta tank
in way of SWTOR the book too dont work! Because he whould " walk" through areas, who are marked as absolutely Deadly for any Human beeing.
Surprised how far most Espa is from jabba palace. Sure boba does use a litter for travel like the Hutt twins but surely he took some sort of land speeder to the edge of town then walked to the mayor's office and such
I love that the hell hole on screen is the inhabitable portion.
This actually helped.
Why is the southern hemisphere of Tatooine uninhabitable? Does it have something to do with the ancient war that changed the climate of the planet?
Or does it have to do something with the twin suns of the Tatoo system?
If the planet’s axis of rotation precesses in sync with its orbital period so it’s always northern winter and southern summer, that could set up a situation where only one hemisphere has habitable climates.
But I think it’s more likely that we have the same climate zones in both hemispheres, but most of the southern habitable zone is mountainous, deep soft sand, or otherwise unproductive and difficult to build on.
The screenshots from Galaxies brings back memories.
this totally nailed my nerd jones today. thank you.
It’s very dated and non-canon now but somewhere I have this old pre Phantom Menace SW technical manual that was sold as a magazine in Waldenbooks. It has a simple map of Tatooine that totally contradicts the complete locations.
That book (and map) were originally printed as a series of 3 Starlog Magazine Specials (I have number 2 dated 1994). They were later reprinted as a single volume. My Boxtree (publisher) edition is dated 1996. Lovely books, well worth picking up if you see them about. "Star Wars Technical Journal", By Shane Johnson
As a total tangent, among the adverts in the magazine, there is one for hand-painted "animation art" from the Ewoks and Droids cartoons, "based on the cells from the series"... a bargain at $275 each!
The Star Wars Galaxies map of tat will always be the map to me ;) Interesting that it does line up fairly close to what the rest of the lore depicts too, well as much as can be reasonable for city spacing in a video game. And SWG has Jabba's Palace and the sarlacc in the south west.
I was thinking the same thing, in the video SWG is used for pictures, why isnt the map considered
I really like this one. Time to start working on creating a proper map of tatooine in unreal 5!
I love the fact luke traveled 150km to Ben's then turned around to go back (well from the sandcrawler area) home then back to that area then mos eisliey(yes it's misspelled). Landslides has must be 100mile/gallon.
I ment landspeeder.
Can you imagine R2-D2 being able to travel that enormous distance in only a handful of hours?
@@TokyoXtreme you got to wonder how far he got both times before being stopped, also I looked up the droids too speed and found nothing.
@@Monsterboy1199 R2-D2 seems to have a top speed of around 4km/h.
Very cool. Thanks.
An interesting video with some places I'd never heard of. However, this map is just no longer consistent with what we now know. TBOBF heavily implies that Jabba's Palace is in the greater Mos Espa metro area. Tour map has Jabba's Palace too far away from Mos Espa. Also, if Ben Kenobi's House is as close to Mos Espa as your map indicates, then surely Luke would have offered to take Ben there instead of Anchorhead to get a transport (to Mos Eisley or wherever it is he was going!)
Tatooine is my favorite planet in the Star Wars galaxy. So much has happened there! Pod Racing, Anakin's home, Mos Eisley Cantina, Docking bay 94, jaba, Mandalorian stuff, boba fett stuff. Man, I wish disney would build a Tatooine Land where we can visit and experience all we have seen in these Star wars movies. Kinda like how Universal made a Harry potter land where you can visit stuff from the harry potter movies.
... I'm impressed by the fact that American Ben used the metric system
A fictional measurement system is appropriate for a fictional universe.
Well metric is still better then what a drunk mathematician came up with while rolling a dice
Thank you A.B.
Many thanks
I would be the type of guy buying a simulator/game solely located on tatooine. You know, explore, find, map, battle, conquer and such stuff
Next Imma need a breakdown of the little known urban cities of Mos Def and Ron Isley
You forgot to mention the Eastern Dune Sea. When you were going over Anchorhead would've been a good time to.
"Not much is known about what can be found there. Aside from the fact that a tribe of Sand People more aggressive that the one near Anchorhead makes its home there. There is also a cave where a Krayt Dragon once made its home, despite not being native to the area. And in this cave, could be found sparse remains of an ancient empire long forgotten."
The Chott Salt flats isn't a made up name - in Tunisia, the Lars Homestead building is still standing (only just) on a place called the Chott el-Jerid.
I'd love to see a star wars geography series on your channel!
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After Roleplaying in the Star Wars universe since the mid-late 80's refreshing to see more content in the Star Wars universe being brought up. Mos Pelgo would be supposedly located in the Northern Hemisphere of Tatooine (as it says in the description). My guess is that Mos Pelgo would be on the other side of the Dune Sea or above Mos Espa... 500km. If you consider that the likes of Mos Espa are the most North of all the cities that we know of near Mos Eisely then Pelgo is much further North. Consider Mos Eisely in the Dakota's or Germany area, and Pelgo would be in Canada-Alaska, or Iceland Murmansk respectively.
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With such repetition, what would be an approximate translation for "MOS"? Town? Refuge? Camp? Station?
More than likely, it would probably be akin to real world cities that contain "los" (Angeles) and "San" (Francisco). Lucas grew up in CA where many cities had similar naming conventions.
I haven't heard of any canon translation, but some people also speculate it might be shorthand for the word "moisture" as moisture farming is common there, and so perhaps cities included it in their names to let travelers know they had water! And over time it was shortened to "mos"
Maybe "Port" would be the best approximation, though I do like the idea of it being a corruption of "moisture"... though still probably indicating a meaning of "port". As for the 'comparison', I'd say it's more like the usage of Spanish "Ciudad" rather than Los or San. But it could also be similar to Arabic Al- and Abu- and such.
Well, if we look to Earth's own example, Mos Def, it just means Most (and Def is Deaf with one letter removed). Using this logic, Mos Espa must mean Most Vespa as they have the most Vespa gangs on Tatooine.
I have been to all these places in Star Wars galaxies
Very cool, thnks!
Ah Mos Espa base of operations for the Sith Empire, good times good times.
I like how Din leaves Mos Eisley in his new N-1 and is directed straight to Beggars Canyon, no where near Mos Eisley.
When I first saw the trailer for the show, I was shocked. Mos Espa on the show looks very similar to my guilds player city, Mos Nihil, which was built in the giant crater North of Mos Espa and west of the Krayt Graveyard in SW Galaxies. The city looks 80% like our city, enough so that I wonder if someone on the show played Galaxies and was inspired by our city. It was one of the more popular cities on our server (Bria) and defiantly had a unique feel being built inside the crater. Was a bit disappointed when I watched the show and they were saying it was Mos Espa. For a couple weeks, I was wondering if they were going to make our city cannon...
What about Fort Tusken? Or was that only canon to Star Wars Galaxies?
Star Wars never really makes this clear but almost everything Tusken Raider-related takes place in or is located in the Jundland Wastes. According to Legends, Fort Tusken is on the northern edge of the Wastes but that's still a fairly sizeable area. Nonetheless, if accurate, it's probably somewhere not too far from Ben Kenobi's house.
@Generation Films i coupd totaly see a hermit jedi seting up shop next to an abandoned and formerly important battlefield, just feels like somthing theyd do
I have a 2017 version of the complete locations & on the page for mos espa
it has fort tusken on a map.
LOVE the use of SWG!
How did fennec Walk all this way with the assassin in the second episode of BoB? And if they used like a Speeder why park IT in the middle of the desert?
It’s on Tatooine! You’re welcome. Saved you some time!
Thanks for Galaxies. ;)
Are we sure that Mos Eisley is the largest city? Mod Espa is depicted to be significantly larger in The book of Boba Fett.
Coincidentally (?) I was just talking with my kids today about Tatooine and how many cities it had. We agreed on "at least 3".
You saying Mos wrong is killing my soul.
random thought. Mos Espa is huge! I bet that is a million "life forms"
Could you do one of these for Coruscant?
Fantastic ! Thanks ! Get a tanker and get an agreement from KAMINO to fill it with water and make a fortune from planets like Tatooine !
Mandalorian Season 2 also showed the city locations when Din was looking for Cob Vanth
My personal favorite Tattooine city is Mos Quito
It may be spelled "Tosche" but Luke pronounces it as "Toshee" in A New Hope...
Mos Ila would be somewhat south from Anchorhead
Why do all the city names and tattooing start with Mos?
Same reason Spanish cities start with "Los"
Isn’t Mos Espa we’re the Sith Empire had their outpost?
Coming across a map of the planet is hard to find.
One city I would like to know is the city of Mos Ila (Known from SWTOR)
On the map from the game, Mos Ila is Directly south of Anchorhead with The Jundland Waistes in between...
So there are plants on Tatooin O.O Never knew that.
There should be a comparison of this map and the one from Sony's SWG Online ( now dead, wiki's still active ) and take into account that both maps do not wrap around, planets do.
Is Carkoon the name of the Sarlak that was in the pit?
What about the jawa city in the battlefront 2015 jawa refugium map
I wonder if in the map where Jabba’s palace is nearby the Pit of Carcoon, there’s “remains of a Tusken camp” underneath the first N of Jundland Wastes
Could that be the site where Ani killed “not just the men, but the women and children too”?
So where is Jabba's Palace? Seeing as Boba and Fennec walk to Mos Espa, it can't be that far from town
I wouldn't count on this being canon, I expect it will be completely reworked after book of boba. mos Eisley is defiantly smaller than mos Espa. jabbas palace is within easy travel distance to mos Espa
Chewbacca flies? Oh, his co-pilot never mind...I see.
There is (or was in Legends) a Mos Gamos in Star Wars Bounty Hunter where Jango Fett shot Up Longo Two-Guns and his gang for Jabba the Hutt. Not really sure where it was though.
Mos Espa is about 10 clicks West, as the DeLorean flies.
Where is the Expanse content? The last season just ended and nothing?! I swear if American Ben does not set this right, I will align myself with the WarHammer crowd in order to send his soul to the Immaterium.
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Okay, maybe one video... 😭❤️
@@GenerationFilms Just one??? We want more!!! Say, maybe...two?😁😐
Is it not a level on Rogue Squadron for Nintendo 64?
In the old rogue squadron games you could fly around parts of the planet in a
T-16 skyhopper.
So according to this video, the inhabited/mapped area of Tattoine is the size of New England.
Why with superior technology over Earth , Tatooine have no pavement? Heck even Earth’s desert cities have pavement.
I think it's a little ridiculous that Tatooine gets so much important events happening there.
i wish it looked like it did in Rouge Squadren
They have space ports. They should easily be able to map the entire planet in greater than Google Maps detail.
I always though Ben' s house was close to Luke's home, but 136 km, or 85 miles?
watching book of boba fett, it seems mos espa is much more cosmopolitan than eisley. the depictions across canon are so inconsistent although it could be chalked up to cities changing across time