Quote Originally Posted by A Very Super Market View Post
Bit off an odd question there, but I'll answer it. The game map ends after straying just a bit into India. I believe on of the settlements (Sulek) is located within modern day China, at the very farthest Western bit. Anyways, this doesn't really answer your question.
Except that the northern-eastern edge of the map is not directly north of the south-eastern edge of the map. The earth is a globe, remember. There was actually a debate about how far east the EB map stretched, when discussing the inclusion of the Yuezhi. The area around Sulek is the Tarim basin.