Faerûn is the western part of an unnamed supercontinent set in the northern hemisphere of the planet Toril, or, more formally, "Abeir-Toril." The "landmass of approximately nine and a half million square miles". Up to the Plains of Purple dust and the Great Ice Sea is about the same size as Europe up to the Ural mountains, Caspian Sea, the Plateau of Iran and including the Mediterranean Sea.
Faerûn is an open land full of kingdoms and empires, large and small, and scattered city-states and villages struggling to make their way in a landscape that can be unforgiving wilderness one mile and cosmopolitan city the next.
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