Location

A location is a broad and generic term used by this wiki to describe a named place or area within the Guild Wars world.

Types of location
On the whole, the term location is synonymous to the term Zone, although it can be used in a broader sense. For example, a Landmark is not strictly a Zone as they are located within a Zone, but can be considered a location as it is a named place.

Lists of locations

 * The following pages list locations according to the campaign they belong to:
 * Core locations common to all campaigns.
 * Prophecies campaign locations.
 * Factions campaign locations.
 * Nightfall campaign locations.
 * Eye of the North expansion locations.


 * Locations (by Type)


 * sortable location table


 * Maps has links to many maps

Taxonomy
An indented item is an item of the type it is indented under; it follows that everything listed is a location.

The list order is (roughly) large to small.


 * Location
 * World — Tyria
 * Continent — made of regions, corresponds to one or more campaign
 * Region — usually encompasses several zones
 * Zone — displays a loading screen when you enter
 * Staging area — allows party formation, does not allow player character combat, can have districts
 * Town
 * Port — has access to intercontinental travel
 * Outpost
 * Alliance Battle outpost — allows access to an Alliance Battle
 * Mission outpost — allows access to a mission
 * Guild Hall — doesn't have districts
 * Combat area — has instances, allows combat
 * Explorable area
 * Dungeon — underground area with possibly multiple levels
 * Elite Dungeon
 * Mini-mission
 * Mission / Mission explorable
 * Challenge Mission
 * Elite Mission
 * Arena
 * Challenge
 * Landmark &mdash; usually located within a zone, usually not named on the map