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Sinnoh (Japanese: シンオウ Shin'ō; Shinou, Shin'ou are common) is a region in the Pokémon world, and will be the setting of the upcoming games Pokémon Diamond and Pearl. It is based on the geography of the Japanese island of Hokkaido.

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 is divided by a mountain range.

Locations Within Sinnoh

Futaba Town

Futaba Town was the first location revealed in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl and is the town in which the game begins (similar to Pallet Town, New Bark Town and Littleroot Town). It is home to the game's professor, Professor Nanakamado (the Japanese word for the Rowan tree), as well as the main character's home and his or her rival's. From the screenshots revealed in popular Japanese manga magazine CoroCoro Comic, it is clear that Futaba Town is close to a body of water and sports brightly colored grass. Futaba (双葉) means bud or sprout, and literally means two leaves.

Masago Town

Masago Town was recently featured in a promotional video for Diamond and Pearl. The video featured the female protagonist walking through the town towards a beach south of Masago. The beach is part of Route 219, and is in close proximity to the town itself. Masago will play the same role as Viridian City, Cherrygrove City or Oldale Town, serving as the town closest to the protagonist's hometown.

Routes

Much like Hoenn before it, Sinnoh's routes are numbered so that they don't follow sequence directly from the previous region's routes. Routes in Sinnoh are numbered from 201 to 230. Many of the routes are unfamiliar territory with familiar situations, as it seems that to progress beyond Route 219 the player needs to use Surf, much like it was for Route 19 in Kanto. 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.

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.

See Also

• Pokémon Diamond and Pearl
• Futaba Town
• Masago Town