Sinnoh
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The Sinnoh region (Japanese: シンオウ地方 Shin'ō-chihō) is a region in the Pokémon world, the setting of the Generation IV games Pokémon Diamond and Pearl. It is based on the geography of the Japanese island of Hokkaido, and according to the anime, the Sinnoh region is located north of the Kanto region.
Geography
Sinnoh features a broad range of new and classic environments for the player to explore including, for the first time in a Pokémon RPG, snowy routes. The region also features full-land geography, with only five sea routes to go through, and three lakes at the northern, western and eastern ends of the region; Lake Verity, Lake Acuity and Lake Valour. Later on the game it was reveal that there was a fourth lake; Sendoff Spring next to Turnback Cave. Due to the large size of Sinnoh, it is split into three sub-regions. The region, also for the first time in the RPG series, is divided by a mountain range, splitting continental Sinnoh in two sub-regions Western and Eastern. This split causes some instances of regional speciation; Shellos differ on either side of the range, for example.
Northeastern Sinnoh a small sub-region off the coast of continental Sinnoh, with one city (Fight Area) and two towns (Survival Area and Resort Area). At Northeastern Sinnoh there is also two major location in the area: Battle Park where trainers gather around the world to battle and an ancient volcano, Stark Mountain where legend say a mystical magma stone that creates earthquake as soon as someone move the stone.
Locations
Cities and Towns
- Western Sinnoh
- Eastern Sinnoh
- Northeastern Sinnoh
Areas of interest
- Amity Square
- Battle Park
- Hall of Origin
- Eterna Forest
- Flower Paradise
- Fullmoon Island
- Iron Island
- Lake Acuity
- Lake Valor
- Lake Verity
- Newmoon Island
- Mt. Coronet
- Pal Park
- Turnback Cave
- Sendoff Spring
- Sinnoh Underground
- Spear Pillar
- Stark Mountain
Routes
Much like Hoenn before it, Sinnoh's routes are numbered so that they don't follow sequence directly from previously-known regions' routes. Routes in Sinnoh are numbered from 201 to 230. Compared to previous generations, there do not seem to be many sea routes; there are many land routes and mountains. The idea of routes with differing weather conditions was also brought ahead from Generation III. For the first time ever in a Pokémon game, some of Sinnoh's routes have snow covering them.
Another quirk about the routes in Sinnoh is that some of them do not go directly east/west or north/south, but actually turn before reaching their destination, most notably Route 212, which has two limbs of equal length. While Hoenn's Route 114 did this on the Game Boy Advance, it was not to this scale, so one may presume that the GBA was limited in this sense.
League
Main article: Sinnoh League
The Sinnoh League is the regional Pokémon League of the Sinnoh region. The Elite Four and the Champion are located at the Sinnoh Pokémon League
Gym Leaders
The following is a list of Gym Leaders in the Sinnoh League:
Elite Four
The following is a list of the Elite Four and the Champion in the Sinnoh League:
See Also
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