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Essos location     A map showing the location of Essos.
Essos is the name of the great continent lying to the east of
Westeros, across the Narrow Sea. It is the largest of the known
world's four continents, extending for many thousands of miles
into the distant east. No map yet exists of the entire
continent. The continent is bordered by the Shivering Sea to the
north and the Summer Sea and the Jade Sea to the south.
Unlike Westeros, Essos is not controlled by a single political
entity. Instead its different regions are controlled by a
mixture of city-states, nomadic tribes and a few small kingdoms.
Essos is the principal setting for Daenerys Targaryen's
storyline in the A Song of Ice and Fire novels.       Essos is
divided into several distinct cultural and geographic regions.
The western-most part of the continent is held by the nine Free
Cities, namely Braavos, Lorath, Pentos, Norvos, Qohor, Myr,
Tyrosh, Lys and Volantis. E