now has nine generations under its belt, and many generations have taken their players to very different locations inspired by a myriad of places from the real world.
With and being two and a half years old and coming out later this year, it looks like GameFreak will be looking toward its franchise's 10th generation relatively soon.
That brings with it speculation as to what part of the world will inspire the next generation of, and the series' overall aesthetic.
The first four regions (Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, and Sinnoh) were all based on different areas of Japan, but since then, the series has firmly based its regions abroad, from Galar drawing inspiration from the United Kingdom to Unova being based on New York City.
There doesn't seem to be much of a pattern in which areas GameFreak chooses to base regions on, going from Japan to Europe to different parts of the USA.