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Sorry man, I admire your desire, but it will be impossible to acheive what you're after. You have to remember that in early games, story and context was largely an after thought, so linking together all the zones an islands is impossible unless without having to assume what you think could work.

However, I'm into this kind of stuff so I'll try and help give you more understanding of Sonic's world. There was actually a topic similar in theme a few years ago, before the Yuku move, so I'll try and remember what was covered there. Its a big read, but here goes *deep inhale*

First things first, a more direct link for your zone list: http://www.theghz.com/museum/index.html Each game entry has a full Zone list, and allusions to the Japanese manuals/back stories which may be helpfull.

Secondly, Sonic 1 and all Game Gear Sonic's (including its version of Sonic 2) take place on South Island - luckily Sonic 1 (8-bit) has a map screen which shows a depiction of South Island. I'd be weary though, as the 8-bit games were out-sourced to another company and not technically developed by teh Megadrive's Sonic's 'Sonic Team' - so its reliability is questionable.

Next Sonic 2 (16-bit) was based in West Side Island, and is the home of Tails. Now, although is all just making it up as I go along, but taken at face value since Tails' workshop (and defacto home) is in the Mystic Ruins in Sonic Adventure, one might be inclined to assume that Mystic Ruins is part of West Side Island, and since the train connects Mystic Ruins and Station Square together, then SS could also be part of West Side. If you make that assumption then that leasd to the jungle area which then leads toooo...

Angel Island is the Island home of Knuckles and the location of Sonic 3 & Knuckles. Now, based on the previous assumption, the jungle contains ruins of an ancient echidna civilisation, and the area behind the temple/pyramid, right at the back of the map is an place you can't go beyond - a large open space with jungle far below (Eggmanland is later constructed there). This may be the original site of Angel Island. We already know that Angel Island rose from the planet's surface by Chaos, and the proximity of the Echidna ruin is proof that it rose from that point, or nearby. So, like I said before, following these assumptions, it can be said that Angel Island was originally part of West Side Island.
As for the individual zones, you can attempt to place the zones in S3&K on Angel Island from the Sonic & Knuckles title screen and the sprite of Angel Island you see from a distance (Knuckles' Sky Sanctuary boss fight/game ending) - for example, theres a yellowy ruin in the distant sprite that could be the approximate location of Sandopolis.
Now there are issues with Angel Island and its zones. You've got Angel Island Zone, the jungle stage from Sonic 3, and theres another Angel Island Zone in Sonic Advance, but this one is basically a grey version of Sky Sactuary. How they relate is anyones guess. Also, some have suggested in the past that Sky Canyon Zone from Sonic Advance 2 is part of Angel Island since it looks like a "Floating Island" in the map/zone slection screen. There's also Chaos Angel Zone in Sonic Advance 3 (kind of an Angel Island Bad Future) which, again where it fits inis anyones guess.

However, Sonic may have been retconned in Sonic Adventure. The Emerald Shrine is not in its former location of Hidden Palace Zone, so Tail' home being West Side Island may have also been retconned. If so all this stuff about Mystic Ruins, Station Square and Angel Island being/originating on West Side Island is worth less (see what I mean about being futile now? n__n)

In the map department, since most Sonic games include a level selection menu based on a map, you're okay for Zone placement in those individual games, but again, how they relate to each other is anyones guess.
Sonic Adventure 2's map shows that Green Hill is relatively close to the city area containing City Escape, Mission Street and Radical Highway, however its tiny in relation, and Sonic presumably doesn't leave South Island for the duration of Sonic 1, so I wouldn't take it as "official". Consider it for what it was - an extra, a bonus, a cameo.
As for the city area, it could all be part of Central City which is referenced more than once, and is the main location in 'Shadow the Hedgehog'. It also contains the home ofthe President, the 'White House'. While on 'Shadow', the cutscenes in the G.U.N. HQ/war room/strategy room include a large map with many different islands and could be the world map - however it differs greatly from the World Map you see in Sonic Unleashed.
I've got images of the SA2 map and the map that appears in Shadow the Hedgehog if you want to see them.

An important point to remember is that while you have the locations of South Island, West Island, Angel Island etc., not all the zones take place on Islands since they are either Eggman's Air Ships, or in space. These include Sky Chase Zone, Wing Fortress Zone and Death Egg Zone in Sonic 2; Flying Battery Zone, Death Egg Zone and Doomsday Zone in Sonic & Knuckles and all those Ark and Black Comet areas in Shadow the Hedgehog. You can probably work out the rest from in-game level maps.

My final thing. Sonic Battle is !#@#@+%%. There are way to many inconsistancies with other Sonic games for it to be cannon (all chaos emeralds are green, lack of Angel Island etc.)

Woah, woah, woah! Okay, I've got some major issues with some of your logic P1.

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Anyway there is also a real 'Angel Island' in real San Fransisco bay. Knowing that the SA2 map has a desert area with Pyramids just like Sandopolis in S+K, and some of the machines, (The flamethrower traps come to mind) and terrain in Sky Rail, and Pumpkin Hill are very similar to Red Mountain from Sonic Adventure/ DX, I assume the Angel Island in Sonic is from around San Fransisco bay also. (Though it was not an island but part of the main land I guess 3000 years ago.)

So, what you're saying here is that the desert, mountain range and lagoon areas in SA2 are Angel Island? This doesn't work since looking at the map reveals it is all one big land mass. And trying to explaining it is 3000 years ago doesn't work since the land mass is grounded on the earth and in the present day, and should be floating above it if it really was Angel Island.

Taking the above to be true and knowing what we know from Sonic Adventure 1/DX, from Tikals flash backs, the Emerald shrine being next to the Mystic Ruins 3000 years ago... we can assume that Sonic Adventure 1/DX takes place in/ next to SA2/B map. The 'Square' that the train 'Station' is in, is part of Capitol city (ie San Fransisco bay) and the Mystic Ruins are a short train ride away.
(...I always assumed that little circle of bulidings in the top left corner of SA2s map was Station Square and the mystic ruins were north of there off screen.)

Looking at that "circle of buildings", although the theory sounds good, it can't be Station Square. Station Square in Sonic Adventure looks out onto an open sea, with no hint of another land mass in the form of SanFran Bay/City Escape/Radical Highway etc., which there should be according to your theory. The same is true in SADX, which came out AFTER SA2. Had this been the intention, SEGA could've easily changed the horizon in SADX, and since they didn't it would be wrong to just say its true anyway.

I believe that the map from Rush 1 is just North of SA2's map/San Fran Bay. Leaf Storm is jungle ish like Mystic ruins (Kinda), Water Palace is like an above ground Hydrocity zone (From Sonic3 Angel island which we have estabilishd as being from the area), Mirage Road is clearly Sandopolis/ Sand ocean etc. Tails Workshop looks very similar to the one in SA1/DX which also kinda fits.

Again, this is impossible. The map is all one land mass, with no hint of the presence of Angel Island, so saying that Water Palace is overground Hydrocity and Mirage Road is Sandopolis is just ridiculous. Judging by the types of foliage found in Leaf Storm, I wouldn't bet on it be the same as Mystic Ruins. Leaf Storm is more of a tropical Jungle/Forest and Mystic Ruins is dark and dence with very few flowers and other brightly coloured plants found in Leaf Storm. There is a Mytic Ruins in Sonic Chronicles though that is almost identicle in design to the SA one, and again, nothing like Leaf Storm, so I'm sue that Leaf Storm and Mystic Ruins are two very different locations. Additionally, while it is similar in design and close to to a heavily green area I don't think this is the same Tails' Workshop - its orientation and placement in releation to SA's Workshop is very diffient, for example the hanger doors do not look out onto the ocean.
But, given that yo've got Tail's House and Workshop in Emerald Town from Sonic Battle and another Workshop in Central City from Sonic Chronicles, it would be safe to assume that there are, in fact, many Workshops that Tails uses. It would make sence that since he travels the work in the Tornado with Sonic he would need suitable places to dock.

That would also help explane Cream the Rabit. Her mothers house is very close to 'Capitol City/San Fransisco' which is where Amy lives and Cream seems to sleep over in. (As seen in Battle.)

Given that prior comments about CENTRAL City and its irrelevance to Sonic Rush's map, this would also be fundimentally wrong. I don't thik I can explain it in the same way as Tails, that wouldn't work, but in real life people travel large distances to visit family and friends, so I'm suggesting that Cream would have travel to travel to Central City to visit Amy. I don't believe it says anywhere in Sonic Battle that Cream lives close to Cental City, although I might be wrong. Can anyone tell me?

From there I assume Emerald Beach, Capitol City, Night Babylon are simply areas of Capitol city/Sanfransisco.
Just based of the fact characters clearly live there in Battle, and other characters somewhat imply they live in the areas the Adventure Games take place.

As I've said earlier in the topic, I don't give a lot of credit to Sonic Battle. According to that game you can just walk to Knuckles' House with no problem, completelry ignoring the fact that he lives on an island that floats in the freaking sky.

Shadow the Hedgehog does somewhat cause a slight snag. In that game Westopolis and Capitol city, to me are implied to be ceperate cities. Except the 'West' in Westopolis suggest San Fran to me. I guess it is a small point.

Because there is no Level Map in Shadow, any attempt to place any of the locations is pure conjecture. You might say that given the fact that the Central City Stage and the Westopolis Stage are basically clone stages that they are two locations that sit right next to eachother where the same elements of architeture bleed into eachother in a way that they become indistinguishable.

Next is Heroes/Riders1/2. All feature (a) very hi tech city(s). I am going to take inspiration from Final Fantasy 8 and say Sonics Japan is Estar. Hey, 'Japan' is not in Unleashed for a reason. (I said there would be fan wank.)

What?! You can't really be saying that because Grand Metropolis, Metal City and Meteor Falls are hi-tech cities are the same location can you? And tryign to say its Japan?! By that logic, all big Metropolises in the world are the same city - Tokyo, New York, Dubai, London - all they say basic thing, right? And back with Sonic, that Green Hill Zone and Emerald Hill Zone are the same place because they're green and they have hills, DESPITE the CLEAR FACT that they are on TWO SEPERATE ISLANDS! I mean, there's conjecture through simple logic and there's talking out of your brown eye.

Anyway, Heroes Grand Metropolis is implied to be next to the Casino stage, which is said in the Chaotix level run to be next to the Rail Canyon stage, which again in the Chaotix stage is said to be next to the Lost Jungle. Hang Castle (Thanks to the Eggman/Metal Sonic statue is clearly one of Eggmans Bases stages) and thus presumably Cryptic Castle from Shadow rhe Hedgehog is also in the area.

Actually, this I don't have much of a problem with. Hang Castle could, in this instance, very well be related to Cryptic Castle. Although, just because you go from one level to another, doesn't neccessarily mean that they are geographicly next to eachother, and Chaotix plays in the same linier pattern as all the other Team Stories, but you're making it sound like they're different to the others.

Speaking of Riders... 'Babylon' suggests Iraq. As with that in mind, does the Sand Ruins stage. Metal city and the rest is anyones guess.

Now, what's been getting to me is your eagerness to relate the stages from the games to real world locations like it means anything. Look at the the world map in Sonic Unleashed, and the map that appears on the wall from Shadow the Hedgehog. They are completely different to any World Atlus you may look at. Sure, various stages take inspiration from real world locations, but thats all. Their geographic relevence is comletely contradictory. The Mystic Ruins' real world inspiration where the Mayan Ruins in South America, but you can't get a train ride from there to a North American coastal city like SanFran which you claim to be Station Square. Or in Unleashed, like Apotos (Greece) being west of Spagonia (Italy), or Shamar (Saudi Arabia) being mysteriously inbetween Chun-nan (China) and Apotos, where the Sonic version of the U.S. should be (This geography comes from my understanding of the Wii/PS2 version of the game which might differ from the 360/PS3 version which includes Empire City (New York), an exclusive location). It just doesn't work and none of it helps determine Sonic's world geography.

Sonic The Hedgehog 2006 is in (Real world) Venice. (Though it should be noted everything other than the end of the last story ending, happened in a altenate time line. Everything. Destroying the God of Time would have more than a slight impact on the time lines. For example... how would efect the time stones in Sonic CD?))

First, as I've said, Soleanna is mearly BASED on Venice, it isn't the same. Secondly, just because the games events didn't happen, or happen in an "alternate timeline(?)", it doesn't mean the place doesn't exist. Just because Marty McFly went back in time to prevent Doc Brown's death, doesn't mean that California doesn't exist anymore.

Geographical difeerenecs between Shadow the Hedgehog and Unleashed can be fan wanked away through the events of Advance 3. Splitting the world into 3 peices may have an effect on geography. And both maps can be seen to some what, I guess if you give them the benifit of the doubt and then some, to be a varient on our world.

*sigh* Worst. Contradiction. Ever! Look, when you break a vase, the pieces have to go back in the exact same place, overwise it wouldn't fit to gether and it all fall aprat again. When he planet broke up in Adv. 3, it would have had to have been put together in the same way it was before. This is what happens in Sonic Unleashed. Geez, even Star Fox Adventures did the same thing with Dinosaur Planet! So, geoqraphy couldn't have just changed - its just one of those things that can not, and will not, ever be explainable.

Sonic Advance 1 Kind of fits agreeing with my above thoughts of San Fran Bay. (Neo Gree hill= Sonics 'Home' from Emerald town in Sonic Battle, 'Secret Base' in the first part of the first base is under a Golden gate 'ish' base like 'Metal Depot' in, Sonic Battle.

Nowhere does it say that "Sonic's Home" is in Neo Green Hill/Emerald Beach. As far as his biography suggests, he doesn't have or need a home. That's what happens when you're as free as the wind. The rest, of trying to relate everything to SanFran, is just garbage.

Sonic Advance 2 take palce... erm somewhere? Though Sky Caneon is Angel Island Floating by the area,

You can't just say that Sky Canyon IS Angel Island. As I said before "some have suggested in the past that Sky Canyon Zone from Sonic Advance 2 is part of Angel Island". Its only been a theory, and no one can say for sure. I believe that there is a scale issue. Sky Canyon's floating Island is very small, and largely brown - I hardly believe that such a thing can contain ALL those other zones from S3&K, and other depitions have shown it to be quite green and mountainous.

Aonic Advance 3... All over the world. Route 99 Is probably Sanfransisco. Chaos Emerald is clearly Angel Island. The rest... pick a place.

Yes... becuase everything in Sonic takes place in San Fran-freaking-sico... ¬_¬ Likewise, stop trying to tie everything in with real Earth Geography.

Oh and CD is on little planet.

This IS true, but not technically part of the planet, although it is an important "place" in the wider Sonic Universe. With that in mind, here's another thing to add to you're geography list, Wraith - Never Lake. Here's a little more information about it, but no hnts as to where it is in relation to other locations.

Rush Adventure is on the islands nearby altermate dimersions version of South Isand, Southside Island. ( A cross between sonic 1 and 2)

Rush Adventure's locations are not a part of "Mobius"-proper (I say mobius just becuase thats how Wraith is refering to it, and becuase Sonic's World-proper doesn't sound as good), and thus not essential to Wraith's cause. By the way, "nearby altermate dimersions version of South Isand, Southside Island"? Where the hell is this from? What the hell is Southside Island? This has never come up anywhere in any game script or backstory. Pure conjecture.

Sorry if I've been mean, but most of this has been you trying to explain things by tying it in with Earth geography, or trying to simplify things by saying that multiple levels are the same basic location, and frankly it doesn't work and your explainations are full of contradictions, and you provide some very weak evidence and vague logic to argue your points. Just accept that not everything is explainable and thatn ultimately, its the creators that decide how the games geography works, and unless they've specifically stated nothing can be definate.

Wraith, I'd forget most of that "info" if I were you. On the plus side, I've got another site for you to go through:
http://sonic.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Locations
Now, a lot of the mentioned locations are from continuities other than Sega Sonic, but each entry will tell you which continuity they are from. Give it a try, although some of the information is somewhat questionable.

Oops. Musta got a tad hot-headed there ^^;