>>26542464While I think it's neat that Serebii's map was actually used in some official capacity, I don't think it's anything more than a friendly nod.
Personally I'm a supporter of the Earth globe theory; I'm aware that the region sizes don't exactly match but given the dialogue of NPCs over the course of the series I believe GF's overall intention was definitely to line the Pokemon maps up with their real world inspirations.
