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I'm talking canonically, this was mostly out of curiosity.
I of course looked it up and found these:
1. https://www.reddit.com/r/Breath_of_the_Wild/comments/6tx7ep/calculations_about_botws_map_size/
2. https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/5w55og/zelda_botw_is_approximately_14_the_size_of/
The first one gives us 72 sq km.
The second gives us 8.3 sq miles, or 21.4969 sq km.
Now, while the first one is the most likely to give us the in-game map, I feel that it is the second one that provides the key to get the canon size. The method of finding how long it takes to jog across the map and by equating that to avg human speeds, we can find the size of the map. However, I propose that we use the in-game clock as the amount of time it takes.
I've always seen Hyrule as bigger than the map, this was aided by the fact that going by the gliding minigame, it takes Link 45 in-game minutes to glide 450 m, (less actually according to the first method). Thats about avg human jogging speed, when gliding is roughly the same speed as Link's sprint.
The second method found that it took 28 min to go N/S and 33 min to go W/E (as I'm finding the entirety of Hyrule I will not be including the .90 multiplier).
One real-time min = one hour in-game.
I will be using the avg, human jog at 6 mph/ 9.65606 km/h.
And so we have:
9.65606 * 28 = 270.36968
9.65606 * 33 = 318.64998
multiply the two and we get: 86153.293124606 square km
A bit bigger than Utah. I'm also pretty sure this is an incredibly low end.
Like I said, I don't know if this is useful.
I of course looked it up and found these:
1. https://www.reddit.com/r/Breath_of_the_Wild/comments/6tx7ep/calculations_about_botws_map_size/
2. https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/5w55og/zelda_botw_is_approximately_14_the_size_of/
The first one gives us 72 sq km.
The second gives us 8.3 sq miles, or 21.4969 sq km.
Now, while the first one is the most likely to give us the in-game map, I feel that it is the second one that provides the key to get the canon size. The method of finding how long it takes to jog across the map and by equating that to avg human speeds, we can find the size of the map. However, I propose that we use the in-game clock as the amount of time it takes.
I've always seen Hyrule as bigger than the map, this was aided by the fact that going by the gliding minigame, it takes Link 45 in-game minutes to glide 450 m, (less actually according to the first method). Thats about avg human jogging speed, when gliding is roughly the same speed as Link's sprint.
The second method found that it took 28 min to go N/S and 33 min to go W/E (as I'm finding the entirety of Hyrule I will not be including the .90 multiplier).
One real-time min = one hour in-game.
I will be using the avg, human jog at 6 mph/ 9.65606 km/h.
And so we have:
9.65606 * 28 = 270.36968
9.65606 * 33 = 318.64998
multiply the two and we get: 86153.293124606 square km
A bit bigger than Utah. I'm also pretty sure this is an incredibly low end.
Like I said, I don't know if this is useful.
