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Masuda has said the Pokemon world is a place "really like" Earth but not exactly it, which is supported by pretty much everything in the games.
The world is charted. Just take our IRL map, change it a bit (or a lot in the case of NYC qualifying as a full region), pick interesting spots to call regions, give greater areas the same name as their IRL counterpart (USA, Guyana), and that's it.
