Where is Brobdingnag?

Question: Where is Brobdingnag?

Answer: Brobdingnag is a fictional land in Jonathan Swift's 1726 satirical novel Gulliver's Travels occupied by giants. Lemuel Gulliver visits the land after the ship on which he is traveling is blown off target and he is separated from a celebration exploring the unknown land. In the second preface to the book, Gulliver laments that this is often a misspelling introduced by the publisher and therefore the land is really called Brobdingrag.

However, Brobdingnag is a nation located on a continent-sized peninsula six thousand miles long and three thousand miles wide on the northwest coast of California. A range of volcanoes up to 30 miles high separates the country from North America.

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