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Beyond the Wall
Beyond the Wall
Geographic area
Sub-arctic taiga forest (east)
freezing mountains and glaciers (west),
subarctic tundra, to uninhabitable polar waste (extreme north)
Regional capital
Date of founding
The Wall

The north side of the Wall.




Wildling territories

A map showing the territories north of the Wall.






The wildlings living north of The Wall have a hardscrabble, survival-based economy, with little settled agriculture. Most of their economic activity is fixated on hunting and gathering: they live to catch what they can eat, and they eat whatever they can catch. They use no official currency, as they are more interested in obtaining things that are directly useful to them, and thus function on the barter system.[1]

However, the wildlings do engage in at least some long-distance trade: the heavy furs of local animals adapted to the harsh cold of the extreme north are fairly valuable, and they often trade them to passing smuggler ships in exchange for iron weapons, which they cannot forge on their own. In past centuries the Night's Watch tried to stop the fur-for-iron trade along the coasts, but in recent centuries as their numbers dwindled they abandoned any attempts to prevent passage around the Wall by sea.

Notable locations

Notable inhabitants

In the books


See also


  1. "The North Remembers"

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