Or how to find a fictional country on a real map.
Sokovia is a hard case to crack. Not only because it doesn't exist in real life, but because even Marvel Studios didn't care where it's located in their fictional universe:
This is the same scene, btw. In Civil War. In the first frame, the country is located in our Northern Italy, on the border with Austria. In the second - in the Czech Republic, on the border with Slovakia. This is the same place that was shown on the map in Age of Ultron:
BUT there is no winner because both are complete BS. Why? Neither has the feature that everyone ignores: a large body of water surrounded by snow-capped mountains.
And it's not a sea, as some have suggested. There is no such coastline anywhere where the country could theoretically be. It's a large lake, and since there aren't many of them around, we can actually pinpoint the location of Sokovia.
First, we will cross out the movie maps completely and for good. There are no large lakes around and no lakes surrounded by such mountains.
Second, we'll have to go to the southeast, to the Balkans. Which is quite logical, because the language of the Sokovians is Serbian, their architecture and cars are the same as in the Balkan countries, and the history of Sokovia resembles some of them.
Some knowledgeable people have pointed out parallels between the description of recent history of Sokovia and some other details and Kosovo, or the Serbian region of Vojvodina. However, geographically they do not match, again because of the lake and the mountains. However, there is a place nearby that does.
Here, on the border of Albania, North Macedonia and Greece, are two huge lakes surrounded by mountain ranges. The place that most resembles the Sokovian landscape is on the right – Lake Prespa and its surroundings in North Macedonia.
Another match - Macedonian language is very similar to Serbian, and the writing looks exactly the same.
So here's the address: Southeastern Europe, North Macedonia, Pelagonia Region, Resen Municipality (area around Lake Prespa).
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