Cities Union: Creating A Province

Here are the **Guidelines to Creating A Province** for your Cities after joining the Cities Union Wiki. New users are highly encouraged to read this page before creating articles on the Wiki and experienced users are encouraged to use this page as a resource when needed.

## Title field should be kept blank

### Official Name

Type the full or official name of your Province here.

### Owner

We will link your Steam Profile here. If you don't want this information on your page, we will remove at request or use an alias

### Population

Type in the combined population of all your counties in this box. For those using a fudged population, see "Fudged Populations" below.

### Area (tiles)

Type in the total number of tiles your Province encompasses, as a combined sum of all your counties.

### Principle City

Link the primary focus city of your Province. This could be your "capital" or largest city. For help linking, see [[1]]

### Uses FP:

Type "Yes" or "No" if you use a fudged population. This information would only used when creating community rankings and polls to ensure that mayors compete with their appropriate population types.

For creative purposes, think of your province as a "folder" for you to keep and organize all your creations. For realistic purposes, think of it as a state.

* ***Admin will create your Province page upon membership***

Each Province will compete against one another in communal rankings in multiple fields.

Some things to note:

* As player, you can create as many Provinces as you want (As long as there is logical reason to do so!)

* To keep a Province realistic, all counties and cities within that province should have the same terrain theme and climate.
* For a Province to participate in community rankings, it needs to have at least three counties (more info below). However, to establish one, you only need one county minimum.
* There is no limit as to how big your Province can be, as long as it follows the other guidelines.
	+ If you would like to create a very large Province with multiple climates (like California), then make sure that you have ample tiles and land area.
* To create your flag, it is recommended that the image size be **900 x 600 px** to fit most pages.
	+ Your Motto can be anything: Get creative!
* Your Province cannot be entirely coastal: For every one coastal county, you must have at least two inland counties to offset.

## Step 2: Counties

Counties are the subdivisions of your Provinces to further organize all of your cities. For Cities:Skylines purposes, Counties are the equivalent (but not restricted) to one map. There is currently no limit to how many counties you can have within a Province and there is no limit to how large a county can be. Just remember that a Province needs a minimum of three counties to participate in community rankings so try to make your counties reasonably sized.

You can subdivide your counties however you want as well, so be creative and realistic!

## Step 3: Cities and Towns

There can be many different cities and towns within one game map in Cities: Skylines. This is where you have the most flexibility to be creative.

For general rule of thumb, the larger the 'city', the more detailed the article should be.