The size of your map is fine... but the icons/areas are not.
Or.. the size of some icons is fine, but the size of others and the size of the areas is not.
OR the size of the areas is right, but the size of the icons and the island/continent is not. (This is why I said you need a different program, cause the icons don't mesh, size-wise)
It all depends on what level of detail you want to show in your map.
If your map is "65x90" miles, it would be an island. Think about it... that's an HOUR driving, in a car.
I grew up near St. Louis, Missouri. The distance from St Louis to Springfield was about an hour and a half. (St Louis to Springfield)
That's 95 miles.
The distance from Springfield to Chicago (In the same state!) is about 3 1/2 hours... at around 200 miles. More than twice the size of the longest part of your island.
Ireland is about 100 miles wide at its' NARROWEST point. at the longest, it's
But, okay, that's travel by car.
The average for how far a person can walk in a day is 20 miles. So you'd have a 3 day trek from one side of the island to the other, for casual, long-distance travel. An army, or a runner could make it in far less time.
You have a total area of about 5850 square miles. The closest ISLAND to the size of yours, is melville island, off the coast in australia.
Google maps images of melville island:
The islands in that tiny circle:
The LENGTH of a typical mountain range is 1500 miles.
They range from 500 miles long, to 4300 miles long.
So.. you could put in some single mountains, or volcanoes on an island that size. Hawaii is smaller than your island and theres a huge volcano there! But you aren't going to find mountain ranges, or deserts, or uncharted lands and vast plains.
For that, you need more LAND.
Common distances.... depends on the time period, really. Medieval times? A village was almost always AT LEAST a day's walk from another village (20 miles), usually it was more. It could be 3 days walk (60 miles) or a week long trip (140 miles+).
If you figure the capitols in the center of each nation, and the capitol spans 10 miles, and each village is 5, then... you couldn't fit 2 nations on an island that size... I'd say from one capitol to another would be.. ? ... uh... ? at least a couple weeks of journeying, so probably about 280 miles? That's just a guess though, and it's a low guess...
If you want your map to have everything it includes, I would say... the WIDTH of your island should be at least 1500 miles. The length at LEAST 3000.
Personally, I'd make it much bigger.
I'm glad you switched to GIMP, it will make it much easier to adjust things
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