The most important export of the North is lumber. Whilst the North is rich in resources, it is also poorly-equipped to exploit them: its population is small, roughly the same as the Riverlands or the Vale but spread across a much vaster area. The Bay of Seals is home to many of the same creatures and bears can be found on the island of the same name (northerners not being the most imaginative in naming conventions). Sheep can be found the aptly-named Sheepshead Hills, whilst fish crowd the Bay of Ice. It is also one of the richest in resources, with the vast forest of the Wolfswood fairly teeming with game (and not just its namesake). Making up approximately one-third the total land area of the continent (by some measures), the North is the largest region of Westeros. Other Resources: Silver mines, stone quarries, fishing, hunting (bears, wolves, seals), mutton & wool, agriculture, silversmithing, shipbuilding. The major trade goods of the Seven Kingdoms. The constant wheel of growing, harvesting, trade and travel keeps life in the Seven Kingdoms ticking over, and when it is interrupted by war, religious strife and piracy, chaos and sometimes famine results. Trade is the lifeblood of the Seven Kingdoms, merchants carrying goods and news from Castle Black to Saltshore and sometimes beyond, across the Narrow Sea to the Free Cities and Slaver’s Bay, sped on their way by steed and ship. Iron mines dot the islands named for them, and vast fish shoals can be found off the shores of the Seven Kingdoms. Proud horses are reared on immense ranches on the Reach, whilst the Riverlands’ fertile, well-watered fields yield barley, corn and wheat in immense amounts. The great forests of the North are rich with game, whilst lumber from those woods give rise to powerful longbows. Amber is mined from the Red Mountains, whilst lemon groves dot the Dornish shores of the Summer Sea. Gold and silver is found under the hills of the Westerlands, whilst marble is quarried in the Mountains of the Moon. The continent of Westeros is home to immense natural resources.

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