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==Geography==

===Physical geography===

====The Great Plain==== 

The heart of Chlouvānem civilization is the huge area usually simply described as the Plain (''dhoya'' in Chlouvānem). There is actually no single accepted name for this huge area, but commonly used ones are "The Great Plain" (''camidhoya'') or "Great Chlouvānem Plain" (''chlǣvānumi camidhoya'', but more commonly found in foreign sources). Another common name is Lāmiejāya-Lāmberah Plain (''lāmiejāyi lāmberi no dhoya''), but it only refers to a part of it.

The Great Plain is basically one of the largest plains on Calémere as well as one of its most densely populated areas; most of it is part of the drainage basins of a few large rivers: two of them, the Lāmiejāya - Calémere's longest river - and the Lirān, have a common shared delta in the northeastern part of the plain; the other major ones all have a common estuary in the southeast, formed by the outlet of the tidal Lūlunīkam Lake. All of these basins are only divided by a few minor hills, so that the impression is of being in a single, continuous plain which spans, at its largest extents, twenty degrees of latitude and almost forty-five degrees of longitude. The highest relief inside the plain itself is Kahandrāta hill, on the border between the dioceses of Mūrajātana and Pūracikāna, about 940 meters high. However, near the foothills of the Camipāṇḍa mountains, thousands of kilometers away from the sea, the plain terrain reaches similar (and higher) elevations.

The northern border of the plain is made up by the Camipāṇḍa ("great white") mountains, one of the longest mountain chains of Calémere and also the highest. It contains Calémere's highest mountain, mount Laikadhāṣṭra, is 5.Ɛ77 pā (10,31512 — about 10,717 m = 35,160 ft) high and lies on the border between the dioceses of Ñarigeiras and Maichlahåryan (the actual peak is in Ñarigeiras; the border passes through a slightly shorter peak to the northwest)

The southern border between the Great Plain and the equatorial rainforest (which is, topographically, also mostly plain) is marked by a distinct biome that makes this area so special: the huge wetlands created by the many rivers that flow northward from the various hills in the northern part of the rainforest. This area is basically a huge network of swampy forests, and is known in Chlouvānem sources as the ''halumi paɂītumi no ṣveya'' - literally "wall of igapós and várzeas", and extends through the dioceses of Dhārvālla, Tamīyahāna, the southern third of Ārvaghoṣa, Talæñoya, and the southern part of Nanašīrama. The dioceses of Vælvmaichlam and Yalyakātāma, and to a lesser extent also Ñariākātāma all have similar habitats and northward-flowing rivers (Vælvmaichlam's ones are outside the basins of the Great Plain), but are included in the major area of the southern rainforest instead.

The Lanamilūki river, which is the one with the largest flow in the area, is particularly significant as it flows through the historical homeland of the Laifutaši culture, which was one of the indigenous cultures that influenced the Chlouvānem the most; the clearwater Lanamilūki, which flows north through eastern Talæñoya, then forms the border between Lgraṃñælihaikā and Nanašīrama before reaching Lūlunīkam Lake at Līlasuṃghāṇa, the Inquisition's capital, is also symbolically important and an extremely famous and visited area today due to the relatively unspoiled várzeas around it (and igapós around its right-bank tributaries) and the many holy sites of the Yunyalīlta. The Lanamilūki river itself is mentioned various times in the Yunyalīlti holy books.

This area still has some important cities, most notably Lunahīkam (the capital of Talæñoya), while Līlasuṃghāṇa and Yāmbirhālih lie just outside this area.

====Political borders and links====

The Chlouvānem Inquisition borders, on land, 18 other countries (plus another one through a maritime border); clockwise from the southeast:

Kondutewa - Ikembete - Maji-Ndola - Ênêk-bazá - Répéruton - Aréntíya - Maëb - ''Rahīma Gulf'' - Džemleštew - Leny-tḥewe - ''Ittungaq Gulf'' - iKalurilut - Brono - ''Skyrdagor (maritime border only)'' - Fathan - Gorjan - Tulfasysz - Nēčathiwēye - Arkjatar - Aksalbor - Union of New Égéloníya

Except for Aksalbor, whose border is short and in a remote mountainous area in the taiga (the Inquisition—Aksalbor—New Égéloníya tripoint is the northernmost point of the Inquisition, a few kilometers south of the 54th parallel north), the Inquisition has road and rail links with all other bordering countries. It should be noted that the only connection with Arkjatar is sparsely travelled, due to its remote location inside the taiga; despite being just south of the 51th parallel north, it is part of the northernmost coast-to-coast crossing in Eastern Márusúturon. The links with the countries to the west are all in good conditions but the roads on the other side of the border often aren't (except for Maëb, whose roads are all in good conditions), particularly in Ênêk-bazá and Ikembete, two of the poorest countries on Calémere.

===Climate===

===Flora and fauna===

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 ==Geography==
+===Physical geography===
+====The Great Plain====
+The heart of Chlouvānem civilization is the huge area usually simply described as the Plain (''dhoya'' in Chlouvānem). There is actually no single accepted name for this huge area, but commonly used ones are "The Great Plain" (''camidhoya'') or "Great Chlouvānem Plain" (''chlǣvānumi camidhoya'', but more commonly found in foreign sources). Another common name is Lāmiejāya-Lāmberah Plain (''lāmiejāyi lāmberi no dhoya''), but it only refers to a part of it.
+The Great Plain is basically one of the largest plains on Calémere as well as one of its most densely populated areas; most of it is part of the drainage basins of a few large rivers: two of them, the Lāmiejāya - Calémere's longest river - and the Lirān, have a common shared delta in the northeastern part of the plain; the other major ones all have a common estuary in the southeast, formed by the outlet of the tidal Lūlunīkam Lake. All of these basins are only divided by a few minor hills, so that the impression is of being in a single, continuous plain which spans, at its largest extents, twenty degrees of latitude and almost forty-five degrees of longitude. The highest relief inside the plain itself is Kahandrāta hill, on the border between the dioceses of Mūrajātana and Pūracikāna, about 940 meters high. However, near the foothills of the Camipāṇḍa mountains, thousands of kilometers away from the sea, the plain terrain reaches similar (and higher) elevations.
+The northern border of the plain is made up by the Camipāṇḍa ("great white") mountains, one of the longest mountain chains of Calémere and also the highest. It contains Calémere's highest mountain, mount Laikadhāṣṭra, is 5.Ɛ77 pā (10,315<sub>12</sub> — about 10,717 m = 35,160 ft) high and lies on the border between the dioceses of Ñarigeiras and Maichlahåryan (the actual peak is in Ñarigeiras; the border passes through a slightly shorter peak to the northwest)
+The southern border between the Great Plain and the equatorial rainforest (which is, topographically, also mostly plain) is marked by a distinct biome that makes this area so special: the huge wetlands created by the many rivers that flow northward from the various hills in the northern part of the rainforest. This area is basically a huge network of swampy forests, and is known in Chlouvānem sources as the ''halumi paɂītumi no ṣveya'' - literally "wall of igapós and várzeas", and extends through the dioceses of Dhārvālla, Tamīyahāna, the southern third of Ārvaghoṣa, Talæñoya, and the southern part of Nanašīrama. The dioceses of Vælvmaichlam and Yalyakātāma, and to a lesser extent also Ñariākātāma all have similar habitats and northward-flowing rivers (Vælvmaichlam's ones are outside the basins of the Great Plain), but are included in the major area of the southern rainforest instead.
+The Lanamilūki river, which is the one with the largest flow in the area, is particularly significant as it flows through the historical homeland of the Laifutaši culture, which was one of the indigenous cultures that influenced the Chlouvānem the most; the clearwater Lanamilūki, which flows north through eastern Talæñoya, then forms the border between Lgraṃñælihaikā and Nanašīrama before reaching Lūlunīkam Lake at Līlasuṃghāṇa, the Inquisition's capital, is also symbolically important and an extremely famous and visited area today due to the relatively unspoiled várzeas around it (and igapós around its right-bank tributaries) and the many holy sites of the Yunyalīlta. The Lanamilūki river itself is mentioned various times in the Yunyalīlti holy books.
+This area still has some important cities, most notably Lunahīkam (the capital of Talæñoya), while Līlasuṃghāṇa and Yāmbirhālih lie just outside this area.
+====Political borders and links====
+The Chlouvānem Inquisition borders, on land, 18 other countries (plus another one through a maritime border); clockwise from the southeast:
+Kondutewa - Ikembete - Maji-Ndola - Ênêk-bazá - Répéruton - Aréntíya - Maëb - <small>''Rahīma Gulf''</small> - Džemleštew - Leny-tḥewe - <small>''Ittungaq Gulf''</small> - iKalurilut - Brono - ''Skyrdagor (maritime border only)'' - Fathan - Gorjan - Tulfasysz - Nēčathiwēye - Arkjatar - Aksalbor - Union of New Égéloníya
+Except for Aksalbor, whose border is short and in a remote mountainous area in the taiga (the Inquisition—Aksalbor—New Égéloníya tripoint is the northernmost point of the Inquisition, a few kilometers south of the 54th parallel north), the Inquisition has road and rail links with all other bordering countries.<br/>It should be noted that the only connection with Arkjatar is sparsely travelled, due to its remote location inside the taiga; despite being just south of the 51th parallel north, it is part of the northernmost coast-to-coast crossing in Eastern Márusúturon. The links with the countries to the west are all in good conditions but the roads on the other side of the border often aren't (except for Maëb, whose roads are all in good conditions), particularly in Ênêk-bazá and Ikembete, two of the poorest countries on Calémere.
 ===Climate===
 ===Flora and fauna===