Jade Sea Map
The Jade Sea lies in the Further East, east of the Summer Sea and south of Essos. The Jade Gates, Great Moraq and nearby straits form its western entrance; Yi Ti lines much of the northern shore; Leng and other islands fill the central and eastern waters; and Asshai stands at the far eastern edge near the Shadow Lands. Trade winds shape a broadly clockwise merchant circuit around the sea, making this one of the best regions in the known world to map as a route network rather than a set of disconnected places.
Key Takeaways
Jade Gates
Regional geography and connected routes
Confirmed places are separated from reconstructed corridors.
Great Moraq, Qal and Yi Ti coast
Asshai
Maintained for 2026 without a fixed day stamp.
Visual Atlas
Use the atlas markers to read the geography point by point.
Mapped Locations and Confidence
| Location / Zone | Confidence | Why it belongs on the map |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Jade Gates | High | The Jade Gates mark the western entrance from the Summer Sea. They are the natural starting point for understanding trade into the Jade Sea. |
| 2. Great Moraq | High | Great Moraq is the largest island in the known world and sits near the division between the Summer Sea and Jade Sea. Port Moraq gives merchants a major southern stopping point. |
| 3. Qal | High | The isle of Qal lies near the Jade Gates and helps define the western approaches into the sea. |
| 4. Yi Ti coast | High | Yi Ti occupies a long northern stretch of the Jade Sea. Ports such as Asabhad, Yin and Jinqi connect imperial cities to maritime trade. |
| 5. Leng | High | Leng lies in the northeastern Jade Sea and contains several known settlements. Its position makes it an important stop between Yi Ti and the eastern waters. |
| 6. Isle of Elephants | High | The Isle of Elephants lies in the southwestern Jade Sea and includes the city of Zabhad, a known stop on the southern leg of merchant circuits. |
| 7. Asshai | High | Asshai lies at the far eastern end near the Shadow Lands. It is remote but firmly connected to Jade Sea geography and long-distance trade. |
| 8. Saffron Straits | High | The Jade Sea narrows eastward into the Saffron Straits, which separate the Shadow Lands from Ulthos and mark the far edge of commonly mapped eastern geography. |
1. Jade Gates
The Jade Gates mark the western entrance from the Summer Sea. They are the natural starting point for understanding trade into the Jade Sea. From a navigator’s perspective, Jade Gates is part of a chain of approaches, straits, ports and stopping points. The value of the marker lies in showing movement across the sea rather than implying that maritime travel follows a single ruler-straight line.
2. Great Moraq
Great Moraq is the largest island in the known world and sits near the division between the Summer Sea and Jade Sea. Port Moraq gives merchants a major southern stopping point. From a navigator’s perspective, Great Moraq is part of a chain of approaches, straits, ports and stopping points. The value of the marker lies in showing movement across the sea rather than implying that maritime travel follows a single ruler-straight line.
3. Qal
The isle of Qal lies near the Jade Gates and helps define the western approaches into the sea. From a navigator’s perspective, Qal is part of a chain of approaches, straits, ports and stopping points. The value of the marker lies in showing movement across the sea rather than implying that maritime travel follows a single ruler-straight line.
4. Yi Ti coast
Yi Ti occupies a long northern stretch of the Jade Sea. Ports such as Asabhad, Yin and Jinqi connect imperial cities to maritime trade. From a navigator’s perspective, Yi Ti coast is part of a chain of approaches, straits, ports and stopping points. The value of the marker lies in showing movement across the sea rather than implying that maritime travel follows a single ruler-straight line.
5. Leng
Leng lies in the northeastern Jade Sea and contains several known settlements. Its position makes it an important stop between Yi Ti and the eastern waters. From a navigator’s perspective, Leng is part of a chain of approaches, straits, ports and stopping points. The value of the marker lies in showing movement across the sea rather than implying that maritime travel follows a single ruler-straight line.
6. Isle of Elephants
The Isle of Elephants lies in the southwestern Jade Sea and includes the city of Zabhad, a known stop on the southern leg of merchant circuits. From a navigator’s perspective, Isle of Elephants is part of a chain of approaches, straits, ports and stopping points. The value of the marker lies in showing movement across the sea rather than implying that maritime travel follows a single ruler-straight line.
7. Asshai
Asshai lies at the far eastern end near the Shadow Lands. It is remote but firmly connected to Jade Sea geography and long-distance trade. From a navigator’s perspective, Asshai is part of a chain of approaches, straits, ports and stopping points. The value of the marker lies in showing movement across the sea rather than implying that maritime travel follows a single ruler-straight line.
8. Saffron Straits
The Jade Sea narrows eastward into the Saffron Straits, which separate the Shadow Lands from Ulthos and mark the far edge of commonly mapped eastern geography. From a navigator’s perspective, Saffron Straits is part of a chain of approaches, straits, ports and stopping points. The value of the marker lies in showing movement across the sea rather than implying that maritime travel follows a single ruler-straight line.
A sea organized by trade winds
The Jade Sea is one of the few places where the direction of a merchant circuit is especially useful for map readers. Prevailing winds encourage a clockwise route: entering near the Jade Gates, traveling east along Yi Ti, reaching Leng and possibly Asshai, then returning west through southern ports such as Zabhad and Port Moraq. The route is more meaningful than a straight-line distance map.
Yi Ti forms the northern shore
A map of the Jade Sea also functions as a map of southern Yi Ti. Asabhad, Yin and Jinqi sit along or near the coast and connect to imperial roads inland. This makes the sea a major organizing feature for one of the world’s oldest and largest civilizations.
Islands turn distance into stages
Great Moraq, Qal, Leng, the Isle of Elephants and smaller island groups break the sea into navigational stages. They create ports, straits and resupply points. That is why the Jade Sea should be read as a maritime system rather than a blank blue area between continents.
Where certainty fades southward
The relationship between the Jade Sea and the southwestern reaches of Sothoryos is not mapped with the same confidence as Yi Ti or the major islands. This page therefore keeps the southern edge deliberately less precise. The uncertainty is faithful to the source geography.
The sea is a route, not empty space
On land maps, water can look like blank background. For sailors it is the main road. Straits, prevailing winds, island chains and ports determine how a voyage unfolds. This atlas therefore reads the sea as a network with entrances, stages and return legs.
Clockwise trade and practical distance
Travel time across a sea is shaped by wind and safe harbors, not only by straight-line distance. A port that looks farther away may be the natural next stop if winds and currents favor it. That is why the merchant circuit is shown as a directional system instead of a set of equal connections.
Edges of mapped certainty
The best-described coasts and islands receive precise labels; poorly described southern or eastern boundaries remain generalized. This prevents a visually attractive sea map from implying knowledge that the source texts do not actually contain.
Reading Jade Sea Map as a connected system
A good atlas page should answer more than “where is it?” It should explain why the places belong on the same map. On this page, Jade Gates, Yi Ti coast and Saffron Straits form a useful geographic framework. The first establishes orientation, the middle shows how movement or influence expands, and the final point reveals the outer edge or closing stage of the story. Reading them together prevents the common fan-map mistake of treating every label as equally important.
The strongest relationships are spatial rather than decorative. Waterways connect settlements, islands constrain ships, mountains narrow approaches, castles dominate roads, and political centers pull surrounding territory into their orbit. That is the reason the visual atlas and the written explanations use the same set of anchor points. The map gives the pattern at a glance; the prose explains what the pattern actually means.
This also helps with scale. George R. R. Martin’s world maps are designed for storytelling, not modern surveying. Distances are sometimes described through travel time, direction or neighboring landmarks rather than numerical measurements. ThroneAtlas keeps that storytelling scale intact. Relative position is emphasized where it is strong, while uncertain margins remain visibly uncertain.
What changes when you zoom out
Zooming out from Jade Gates changes the question from local placement to regional power. A city may become one node in a trade network; a dragon location may become part of a campaign; a river bend may become a link between ancient ruins and a modern Free City. That broader view is especially important for readers arriving from a character page or individual battle page, because it shows what existed around the event rather than only what happened at the event itself.
The connections also make internal chronology easier to follow. When several moments take place in the same region, the atlas can show how the role of a place changes over time. A secure base can become a battlefield. A trade route can become an invasion corridor. A ruined city can survive as a navigational landmark long after its political power disappears. Geography remains constant enough to let different eras speak to one another.
Questions this map can answer quickly
Where do I start?
Start with Jade Gates. It provides the clearest first orientation point and makes the remaining markers easier to understand in sequence.
Which marker changes the story?
Yi Ti coast is a useful turning point because it shifts the map from simple location into movement, strategy or wider regional context.
Where does the map end?
Saffron Straits represents the outermost, final or most uncertain edge of the geographic story covered on this page.
Those three questions are intentionally simple. They make the page useful for readers who want a fast answer, while the deeper sections remain available for people comparing lore, routes and regional geography. That two-layer approach is especially important on ThroneAtlas because map searches often contain both quick-reference intent and deep-lore intent at the same time.
Atlas Field Notes: interpreting distance, movement and control
Map reading becomes more reliable when three layers are kept separate: physical geography, political control and narrative movement. Physical geography includes the coastlines, rivers, mountains, islands and fixed settlements that make the world legible. Political control is more fluid; houses, city-states, emperors and armies may claim spaces that they cannot always police. Narrative movement is different again, because a character, dragon, fleet or caravan can pass through territory without controlling it. On the Jade Sea Map, those layers overlap but are not treated as identical.
That distinction also prevents a common error in fan cartography: assuming that the shortest visual line must be the route taken. Roads bend toward crossings, ships follow navigable straits and favorable winds, armies seek food and defensible ground, and dragons respond to the choices of their riders. Even when the beginning and end are known, the middle may not be. The atlas therefore uses sequence and regional corridors where appropriate rather than manufacturing a modern GPS track.
Readers can also use neighboring maps to test scale. If a location appears close to another on a world map, opening the regional page may reveal intervening rivers, bays, mountain chains or political zones. ThroneAtlas is designed as a connected atlas for exactly that reason. No single page needs to carry the whole known world; each page can focus on the level of geography where its subject becomes understandable.
Finally, confidence labels are not rankings of importance. A low-confidence area may be central to the lore while remaining geographically vague. A high-confidence river junction may be narratively minor but extremely useful for orientation. Keeping confidence separate from story importance lets the map remain both readable and intellectually honest.
Map Accuracy and Canon Confidence
High confidence is used when a location, river, island, city or event site is directly named and geographically established in the published material. Medium confidence is used for a regional route or movement corridor that is strongly implied but not described turn by turn. Low confidence is reserved for areas where the chronicles themselves remain uncertain.
This system is deliberate. A fantasy atlas can look impressive while quietly inventing precision. ThroneAtlas takes the opposite approach: it shows what can be mapped, explains what must be reconstructed, and leaves genuinely unknown geography unresolved.
Source Basis
This atlas follows the geographic relationships shown in The Lands of Ice and Fire and described in The World of Ice & Fire. The northern and island anchors are relatively clear, while the sea’s relationship with far southern Sothoryos is less certain.
The page is written as an interpretive atlas rather than a substitute for the novels and world books. Named places are organized to answer practical map questions—where a location sits, what lies around it, what route connects it to neighboring places, and why the geography matters to the story. This keeps the page useful for readers without flattening uncertain lore into false certainty.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where is Jade Sea on the map?
The map places Jade Sea within its established regional context and uses Jade Gates, Great Moraq and Qal as the first major orientation points. The page focuses on relative geography rather than invented modern coordinates.
What is the most important location on this Jade Sea map?
Jade Gates is the starting anchor, while Saffron Straits is equally important for understanding the wider route or regional relationship. The answer depends on whether you are reading the map for chronology, strategy, trade or lore.
Is this Jade Sea map based on book canon?
Yes. The base geography follows the published world and history material. Where television imagery overlaps with the same places, it can help with visualization, but the map does not use screen scenery to invent unsupported coordinates.
Are the routes shown exact?
No. Confirmed locations are marked separately from reconstructed corridors. When the source names two places without describing every step between them, ThroneAtlas shows the relationship without pretending the exact path is known.
Why are some areas less detailed?
The source material is uneven by design. Some regions, rivers and castles are mapped closely, while distant interiors or intermediate movements are only broadly described. The atlas keeps those differences visible.
What other maps connect to Jade Sea?
The related-map section links to the strongest geographic neighbors and story connections already available on ThroneAtlas, letting you move outward from this page without treating it as an isolated article.
Does map scale equal real-world miles?
No. The schematic atlas is built for relative position, sequence and strategic understanding. It should not be used as a precise mile-by-mile measurement tool.
What does High confidence mean?
High confidence means the location or relationship is directly established by published maps or narrative descriptions. Medium indicates a strong regional inference, while Low is reserved for genuinely uncertain areas.
Why use a visual atlas as well as a table?
The atlas helps readers grasp spatial relationships quickly, while the table preserves names, confidence levels and explanations in a form that is easy to scan, quote and compare.
When was this Jade Sea map updated?
This ThroneAtlas page is maintained as a 2026 edition. The page avoids a fixed day-and-month stamp so minor corrections and map refinements do not create a misleading sense of event-specific freshness.
