SimCity 4 > Basics > Regions, Cities & Tiles
SimCity 4 begins with a region, a vast land divided into cities of various sizes. These cities can interconnect: They can buy and sell the resources of their neighbors, and their sims can travel among them. Certain rewards in SimCity 4 (such as the Tourist Trap) are contingent on the presence of neighboring cities.
Cities in SimCity 4 come in small, medium and large sizes.
| City Sizes (in tiles) | |
|---|---|
| Small | 64 × 64 |
| Medium | 128 × 128 |
| Large | 256 × 256 |
In SimCity 4 proper the cities are perfectly aligned with each other. Not so with the Deluxe Edition, where the cities are in no particular alignment.
The cities in turn are divided into tiles. These are sixteen meters square. On these zones, roads and other city components are laid. All components are measured in tiles.