Western Heartlands

Anauroch
Type	Magocracy (city of Shade), tribal (the Bedine)
Race(s)	Humans, asabi, gnolls
Notable locations	Shade (none for Bedine) (capital)
Population	114,048, not including the city of Shade

Chult
Type	Tribes, theocracy (Mezro)
Race(s)	Humans, goblins, lizardfolk, wild dwarves, pterafolk
Notable locations	Mezro (capital)
Population	440,000

Cormanthyr
Type	none
Race(s)	Drow, elves, half-elves, humans, halflings
Notable locations	Myth Drannor (capital)
Population	154,000

Dragon Coast
Type	City-states
Ruler	none
Race(s)	Humans, halflings, half-elves, gnomes
Notable locations	none (capital)
Population	820,000

The Hordelands
Type	Tribes
Ruler	Hubadai Khahan
Race(s)	Humans, gnolls, centaurs, dwarves
Notable locations	none (capital)
Population	133,000

The Moonsea
Type	City-states
Ruler	none
Race(s)	Humans, orcs, half-orcs, halflings, dwarves, ogres, gnomes
Notable locations	none (capital)
Population	1,750,000

The Savage Frontier
Type	City-states, tribes, clans
Ruler	none
Race(s)	Humans, orcs, dwarves, half-elves, elves, half-orcs, halflings, gnomes
Notable locations	none (capital)
Population	560,000

The Shaar
Type	Nomadic
Ruler	various chieftains
Race(s)	Humans, wemics, gnolls, centaurs, loxos, thri-kreen
Notable locations	none (capital)
Population	590,000

Silver Marches
Type	Confederation
Ruler	Alustriel Silverhand
Race(s)	Humans, dwarves, elves, half-elves, halflings, gnomes, half-orcs
Notable locations	Silverymoon (arguably) (capital)
Population	1,090,000

The Sword Coast
Type	City-states
Ruler	none
Race(s)	Humans, dwarves, orcs, half-orcs, elves, halflings, gnomes, half-elves
Notable locations	none (capital)
Population	660,000 (not including Waterdeep and Baldur's Gate)

This is a list of fictional regions, geographical features, and other locations on the continent of Faerûn from the Forgotten Realms setting. These locations have appeared in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the multiple series of novels set in the Forgotten Realms, or the numerous video games set in the Forgotten Realms, or any combination thereof.

There are separate lists for cities and nations of the Forgotten Realms setting.

Anauroch, also called The Great Sand Sea, is a magical desert on the continent of Faerûn.

The desert is a remnant of the once-powerful Netheril Empire. It is now inhabited by the Bedines, magically transported there from Zakhara, the vicious asabi, the dreaded phaerimms and, since very recently, by the archwizards of Shade.

Elminster has said of Anauroch that "It is not a natural desert, and it is not all hot sands." In fact it is three deserts. The hot, dry desert of sand dunes which most folk imagine all Anauroch to be like is known as "the Sword" and actually makes up only roughly the southern third of the region. North of that lies a region of wind-scoured bare rock, called "the Plain of Standing Stones" despite very little of it being flat plain. The most northerly region is a vast sheet of ice overlying bedrock and marked with many rifts named "the High Ice."

The Empire of Shadows is nebulous country in southern Anauroch, mainly consisting of whatever territory the City of Shade controls at any given time. The Shadovar are striving to make the Empire of Shadows into a cohesive and permanent nation.

Hlaungadath is one of the three floating cities that Mystra saved during the destruction of Netheril. It is a city that landed near the High Ice and was eventually abandoned. The drow in the War of the Spider Queen series arrive here by means of a portal. They are forced to flee after they are set upon by lamias (humanoid lions that work magic) and their legions of asabis.

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