Suggestions for the Mongolia region,
with a minor change to the suggestions Korea region I've made above.
The city of Uiju is IRL located on the East bank of the Yalu(Amrok) river,
therefore I have replaced it with the city of Andong, currently known as Dandong (changed name in 1965).
The Mongolia Region, and some nearby tiles, based on soul-breathing's suggestions.
Most of the cities are currently the provincial capitals of Mongolia.
I say provincial capitals, but these are small towns with 10k~30k pop each.
Discussions:
1.
I've tried to fill as many possible settlable tiles as possible, and since I didn't want to fill the map with names of 1k pop villages,
I have enlarged multiple cities to 2~3 tiles.
Still, there are some tiles left to fill, e.g.) tiles around the oasis 1W of Ejina, and the riverside desert 1W of Choibalsan.
2.
Karakorum and Urga; which one should take the tile 1S of Erdenet?
This comes down to the question: which one is the more important city, the one that needs to be represented in the game?
Karakorum was the capital of the Mongol Empire, but is little more than a ruin now.
Urga is a city that rose to power in the 17c, but it is currently the capital of Mongolia, and holds half of her national population.
In the end, I decided that Karakorum should be the winner, because in DoC, the Mongol civilization features the Mongol Empire of 13-14c,
and not the shadow it was in 17c & onwards..
3.
There are two strips of moorland that connects Mongolia to North China across the Govi Desert.
One is the Urga (Ulaanbaatar) - Choir - Sainshand line;
these tiles were easy to name because Google Map showed a highway (railroad?) connecting these cities to China.
But I could find no clear sign of a big highway/railroad connecting Mongolia to Bayan Nur.
I have named these 2 tiles as Mandalgovi, the capital of a province in southern Mongolia,
but maybe this passage should be blocked with a desert tile?
This will make it easier for the human Chinese player to defend against the Mongols, which could either be a good idea or a bad idea.
4.
I've noticed that there are a few hundred tiles in Siberia that need to be named, and most of these are scarcely inhabited IRL.
Same would go for regions like the African inlands and the jungles of South America.
So: what is the policy for these regions?
Should all tiles be named before we can use the new map?
Or naming the core areas and historically/strategically important regions suffice?
