Editing Lilliput and Blefuscu (section)

{{short description|Fictional island states in Gulliver's Travels}}
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{{Infobox fictional location
| name          = Lilliput
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| image         = Map of Lilliput - Gulliver's Travels 1726 edition.png
| caption       = Map of Lilliput and Blefuscu (original map, Pt I, ''Gulliver's Travels''). It shows their location in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of [[Sumatra]].
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| source        = [[Gulliver's Travels]]
| creator       = [[Jonathan Swift]]
| genre         = Satire
| blank_label   =  Motto
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| blank_label1  = Anthem
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| locations     = Mildendo (capital)
| blank_label2  = Language(s)
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| ethnic_groups = Lilliputians
| type          = [[Monarchy]]
| population    = 
| blank_label3  = Currency
| blank_data3   = sprug
}}
{{Infobox fictional location
| name          = Blefuscu
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| image         = 
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| image2        = 
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| source        = [[Gulliver's Travels]]
| creator       = [[Jonathan Swift]]
| genre         = Satire
| blank_label   =  Motto
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| blank_label1  = Anthem
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| locations     = Blefuscu (capital)
| blank_label2  = Language(s)
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| ethnic_groups = Blefuscudians
| type          = Monarchy
| population    = 
| blank_label3  = Currency
| blank_data3   = sprug
}}

[[File:Moll - A map of the world shewing the course of Mr Dampiers voyage round it from 1679 to 1691 (cropped) - New Holland - Dimens Land.png|thumb|[[Herman Moll]]: ''A map of the world shewing the course of Mr Dampiers voyage round it from 1679 to 1691'', London 1697. Cropped region near the fictional island Lilliput. Swift was known to be on friendly terms with the cartographer Herman Moll{{citation needed|date=August 2021}} and even mentions him explicitly in Gulliver's Travels (1726), chapter four, part eleven. The pair of islands center left on the map are [[Île Amsterdam]] (Amsterdam, seemingly corresponding to Blefuscu) and [[Île Saint-Paul]] (Saint Paul Island, corresponding to Lilliput) to the north and south, respectively.{{citation needed|date=August 2021}}]]

'''Lilliput''' and '''Blefuscu''' are two fictional island [[Fictional country|nations]] that appear in the first part of the 1726 novel ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]'' by [[Jonathan Swift]]. The two islands are neighbours in the [[Indian Ocean|South Indian Ocean]], separated by a channel {{convert|800|yard}} wide. Both are inhabited by [[Little people (mythology)|tiny people]] who are about [[1:12 scale|one-twelfth the height of ordinary human beings]]. Both nations are empires and the capital of Lilliput is Mildendo.