This effectively defines an Azerothian mile as "the distance you can run in 5 minutes", without using any speed enhancing items of course. As everybody on Azeroth is a hero, lets just define the Azerothian running speed as 12 mph as well. On earth, a marathon runner has a running speed of about 12 miles per hour. But interestingly all races move at the same running speed, so it makes sense to define the mile by the time it takes to run it. But on Azeroth "steps" aren't that easy to count, and the length of legs between the different races varies widely. The soldiers had to walk through all of Europe anyway, so you just needed to count their steps and had the place all measured up with few extra effort. The basic definition of a mile is coming from Roman times, defining a mile a 1000 double steps of a marching legion. As "a mile" doesn't even have the same length on different places on our earth, that isn't trivial. To measure a square mile, you first need to define what a mile is. But how do you measure the widths of a continent? And the second continent, the Eastern Kingdoms, while being shaped more irregularly, has roughly the same area. So if we could measure how wide it is, we would have its area. If you have a look at the continent of Kalimdor, you will see that it is roughly rectangular, and three times as long as it is wide. So I had to go out and measure it myself. But how big is this world in square miles or square kilometers? While other game companies brag about the size of their worlds, Blizzard is keeping mum about this.
It takes quite some time to completely explore every corner of the World of Warcraft, Azeroth.
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