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[edit] Ankh-Morpork Topographic Map

I'd like to try and come up with a Topographic_map of Ankh-Morpork. I've read most of the novels over the last 18 years and do remember Terry talking about parts that are below the level of the river, etc, etc. We know Nap Hill is a hill but how high is it? If you would like to help then please include the book title, page number and extract. --Mikecook 20:38, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs have already published one, called The Streets of Ankh-Morpork. It was basically done in the same way as you describe - putting together all the different bits of information from the books. -=# Amos E Wolfe talk #=- 07:59, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] misc

I'll check, but I think the stuff about Nobby Nobbs being related to royalty was a fiction invented by Dragon King at Arms. DJ Clayworth 20:58, 13 Feb 2004 (UTC)

There's a throwaway line near the end of the book hinting that there may have been more truth to the fiction than even Dragon King of Arms realised. —Paul A 00:59, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)


great! --Yak 11:20, Mar 3, 2004 (UTC)


Is there any actual fact to connect Carrot with the Royal familiy, except very broad hints? I liked the old Version better. --Yak 11:35, Apr 2, 2004 (UTC)

The end of Men at Arms seems pretty clear, but no, there's no actual evidence, and Carrot will do everything in his power to ensure it stays that way. Daibhid C


Where does the figure of AM proper being one mile in diameter come from? That sounds awfully tiny for the Disc's largest city, and I distinctly recall a passage in Gaurds! Guards! in which Colon describes it as being eight miles wide... 20:55, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

In a thread on alt.fan.pratchett, Terry said, "The centre shown in the Mappe is about a mile across". It's the Disc's largest city because there's so much of it outside the city walls, which isn't "AM proper" in that sense. (It's kind of like the difference between London and the City of London.) --Daibhid C 16:47 5 Nov 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] The Big Oyster?

When has A-M ever been called the Big Oyster? I recall "pearl of cities" in TLF, but that's as close as it gets. Daibhid C 14:19 19 Oct 2005 (UTC)

Yep, it's been that said that comparing Ankh-Morpork to the diseased secretions of a dying Mollusc is very apt! The Kinslayer 14:46, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] fiction tag

What's the deal with this Wincanton business? I mean... what... what's the deal? Melchoir 07:44, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Link to BBC articles added. They explain it. Fishies Plaice 23:12, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

The fiction tag is bogus. The article makes it clear throughout that the city is part of a series of stories. Who could read that and think otherwise? I'm going to remove the tag.--Eric TF Bat 00:23, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Coat of Arms

The plural of hippopotamus is hippopotami. 195.190.143.254 (talk) 11:04, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Much better coat of arms featured on inside cover of hardback "Going Postal" on postage stamps.

The coat of arms on the page currently is shamefull. Here is a better picture: http://disquemonde.free.fr/discw


This [1]is taken from the cover of "The Streets of Ankh Morpork", but I'm not sure how to copyright it or post it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.150.230.126 (talk) 19:53, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mended Drum

"Curiously, this romantic disreputable place is what Twoflower thought naively in Colour of Magic." - this sentence looks like it's trying to go somewhere but got lost. I have no idea what it is trying to lead to so I'll leave it alone and bring it to other people's attention.

[edit] The Thames and The Ankh

Hi all, Seeing as virtually every representation of the city clearly shows the river with an identical 'Thames Meander' (thoses who know the Eastenders opening credits will know what I mean!), I added this little fact into the opening paragraph of 'The River Ankh', which also draws comparisons to the Thames. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.153.111.44 (talk) 21:23, 28 October 2007 (UTC)