After ten movies, one would think that the Star Wars galaxy is a pretty big place, right? If you consider the many TV series, novels, comic books, and whatnot, then it gets even bigger. Now, Lucasfilm did us all a solid and released a complete map of the Star Wars galaxy, an interactive masterpiece that reveals just how big and weirdly wonderful the galaxy far, far away really is. The whole thing was put together by Star Wars author Jason Fry, who wrote not only the beautiful Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi novelization but also many reference books—like the one the map is based on, 2009's Star Wars: The Essential Atlas—and a huge team from Lucasfilm and DK, and it will be updated as new lore is released. It's a treasure for the fans, really, who have been geeking out about it, and here are some interesting findings.

The first thing is distance. Every square on the map equals five thousand squared light-years, meaning that the whole galaxy spans a whopping 2.1 million light-years of area. It's structured into eight macro regions: the Deep Core, the Core, the Colonies, the Inner Rim, the Expansion Region, the Mid-Rim, the Outer Rim, and the Unknown Regions. There are also "autonomous regions," so to speak, like Bothan Space, Hutt Space, and the Corporate Sector. There are also five major hyperlanes, from which smaller trade routes unravel, making traveling possible. One of those passes through Tatooine, for example, and maybe that's why this backwater desert planet is such a popular hive of scum and villainy, as it's also close to Hutt Space. A similar reasoning can be applied to every other location in the movies.