Trade nodes

See also: Trade

Trade nodes are 80 static "locations" on the map where trade can be conducted utilizing merchants. The province containing a trade node must be discovered before merchants can be sent there, but trade nodes are not otherwise tied to specific provinces. Instead, nodes are tied to a collective of provinces, each contributing its trade value to determine the overall local wealth generated for the node. The node value can be modified by improving base production wealth, trade goods price changes, constructing manufactories or steering trade to and from the node.

As a general rule, controlling more provinces in a node helps in gaining high trade power within that node, although this could also be achieved by controlling only provinces with trade modifiers (i.e. estuary or center of trade). Provinces which are added to states or trade companies are more useful for trade power due to their low autonomy floor. Other means of increasing trade power involve sending merchants or a fleet of light ships to the node. Picking certain idea groups or opportunities to increase mercantilism will improve the effectiveness of taking land for its trade power.

Trade nodes with arrows showing flow of trade

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Note:The table below mentions Inland sea even though trade-wise they are not different from other sea-nodes. This is done to mark nodes in which galleys (or transports) can also be used for pirate hunting missions - though, while in mission, these fleets may occasionally arrive at non-inland sea provinces.

Trade node	Type	Continent	Total provinces	Incoming	Outgoing	Key provinces
Aleppo	Inland sea	Asia	32	Basra Persia	Alexandria Constantinople	Adana (Coastal Center of Trade) Dimashq (Inland Center of Trade) Diyarbakir (Inland Center of Trade) Halab (Inland Center of Trade) Tarabulus al-Sham (Coastal Center of Trade)
Alexandria	Inland sea	Africa	47	Aleppo Ethiopia Gulf of Aden	Constantinople Genoa Venice	Al Gharbia (Granary of the Mediterranean) Bangazi (Coastal Center of Trade) Cairo (Inland Center of Trade) Dumyat (The Nile Estuary - Granary of the Mediterranean) Iskandaria (Coastal Center of Trade) Jeddah (Coastal Center of Trade) Rashid (The Nile Estuary - Coastal Center of Trade - Granary of the Mediterranean) Sharqiya (Granary of the Mediterranean)
Amazonas		South America	36		Brazil Caribbean	Manaus (Inland Center of Trade)
Astrakhan	Inland	Europe	29	Persia Samarkand	Crimea Kazan	Astrakhan (Volga Estuary) Sarai (Inland Center of Trade)
Australia		Oceania	46	Polynesian Triangle	The Moluccas	Badtjala (Coastal Center of Trade) Eora (Coastal Center of Trade) Kaurna (Coastal Center of Trade) Tharawal (Coastal Center of Trade) Wadjuk (Coastal Center of Trade) Woolna (Coastal Center of Trade) Wurundjeri (Coastal Center of Trade)
Baltic Sea	Inland sea	Europe	44	Krakow Novgorod	Lübeck	Dalaskogen (Stora Kopparberget) Danzig (Vistula Estuary - Coastal Center of Trade) Gotland (Coastal Center of Trade) Konigsberg (Coastal Center of Trade) Memel (Neman Estuary) Riga (Daugava Estuary - Coastal Center of Trade) Stockholm (Coastal Center of Trade)
Basra	Inland sea	Asia	38	Hormuz	Aleppo Persia	Baghdad (Inland Center of Trade) Basrah (Euphrates Estuary - Coastal Center of Trade) Jabal Shammar (Inland Center of Trade) Qatif (Coastal Center of Trade)
Beijing	Inland sea	Asia	28	Girin Hangzhou Xi'an	Yumen	Beijing (Coastal Center of Trade) Laizhou (Coastal Center of Trade)
Bengal		Asia	47	Lhasa Malacca Burma	Coromandel Doab	Bengal Delta (Ganges Estuary - Coastal Center of Trade) Chittagong (Coastal Center of Trade) Cuttack (Coastal Center of Trade) Dhaka (Ganges Estuary - Coastal Center of Trade) Gauda (Inland Center of Trade) Mrauk U (Coastal Center of Trade) Pataliputra (Inland Center of Trade) Sambalpur (Inland Center of Trade) Satgaon (Coastal Center of Trade) Tirhut (Inland Center of Trade)
Bordeaux		Europe	28	Caribbean Gulf of St. Lawrence Ivory Coast	Champagne	Aquitaine (Gironde Estuary - Coastal Center of Trade) Bas-Poitou (Coastal Center of Trade) Finistere (Coastal Center of Trade) Nantes (Loire Estuary)
Brazil		South America	43	Amazonas Rio de La Plata	Ivory Coast	Bahia (Coastal Center of Trade) Ceara (Coastal Center of Trade) Pernambuco (Coastal Center of Trade) Rio de Janeiro (Coastal Center of Trade)
Burma	Inland	Asia	40	Chengdu	Bengal Siam	Ava (Inland Center of Trade) Dagon (Irrawaddy Estuary) Pathein (Irrawaddy Estuary) Pegu (Coastal Center of Trade)
California		North America	73		Girin Mexico Mississippi River Polynesian Triangle	Chinook (Columbia Estuary) Ohlone (Coastal Center of Trade)
Canton	Inland sea	Asia	36	Chengdu Siam	Hangzhou Malacca Philippines	Canton (Pearl Estuary - Coastal Center of Trade) Dong Kinh (Inland Center of Trade) Hai Phong (Red River Estuary) Macau (Coastal Center of Trade) Wuling (Inland Center of Trade)
Cape of Good Hope		Africa	18	Coromandel Malacca Zanzibar	Ivory Coast	Cape (Coastal Center of Trade)
Caribbean		North America	61	Amazonas Ivory Coast Mexico Mississippi River Panama	Bordeaux Chesapeake Bay Sevilla	Barahonas (Coastal Center of Trade) Boriken (Coastal Center of Trade) Curacao (Coastal Center of Trade) Havana (Coastal Center of Trade) Jamaica (Coastal Center of Trade) Les Cayes (Coastal Center of Trade)
Coromandel		Asia	54	Bengal Deccan	Cape of Good Hope Gujarat Gulf of Aden	Bellary (Inland Center of Trade) Calicut (Coastal Center of Trade) Cannanore (Coastal Center of Trade) Cuddalore (Coastal Center of Trade) Goa (Coastal Center of Trade) Kalingandhra (Coastal Center of Trade) Konaseema (Godavari Estuary) Kotte (Coastal Center of Trade) Madurai (Coastal Center of Trade) North Kanara (Coastal Center of Trade) Tanjore (Coastal Center of Trade) Tondainadu (Coastal Center of Trade) Trincomale (Coastal Center of Trade) Velanadu (Krishna Estuary - Coastal Center of Trade)
Champagne	Inland	Europe	33	Bordeaux Rheinland	English Channel Genoa	Bern (Inland Center of Trade) Dijonnais (Inland Center of Trade) Lyonnais (Inland Center of Trade) Orleanais (Inland Center of Trade) Reims (Inland Center of Trade) Trois Eveches (Inland Center of Trade)
Chengdu	Inland	Asia	20	Lhasa	Canton Xi'an Burma	Chengdu (Inland Center of Trade) Chongqing (Inland Center of Trade) Dege (Inland Center of Trade)
Chesapeake Bay		North America	55	Caribbean Ohio	English Channel Gulf of St. Lawrence	Chesapeake (James Estuary) Lenape (Delaware Estuary) Manhattan (Hudson Estuary) Massachusetts (Coastal Center of Trade) Santee (Santee Estuary)
Constantinople	Inland sea	Europe	42	Aleppo Alexandria Crimea	Ragusa	Constantinople (Center of Trade - Bosphorus Sound Toll) Hüdavendigar (Coastal Center of Trade) Sinop (Coastal Center of Trade) Sugla (Coastal Center of Trade)
Crimea	Inland sea	Europe	35	Astrakhan	Constantinople Kiev Pest	Azov (Don Estuary) Bessarabia (Danube Estuary) Caffa (Coastal Center of Trade) Odishi (Coastal Center of Trade) Tbilisi (Inland Center of Trade) Trabzon (Coastal Center of Trade) Yedisan (Dnestr Estuary)
Cuiaba		South America	41		Lima Rio de La Plata	Asuncion (Inland Center of Trade) Chuquiabo (Inland Center of Trade) Jujuy (Inland Center of Trade)
Deccan	Inland	Asia	40	Doab	Coromandel Gujarat	Bidar (Inland Center of Trade) Bijapur (Inland Center of Trade) Burhanpur (Inland Center of Trade) Daulatabad (Inland Center of Trade) Golconda (Inland Center of Trade) Ujjain (Inland Center of Trade)
Doab	Inland	Asia	43	Bengal	Deccan Lahore	Central Doab (Inland Center of Trade) Delhi (Inland Center of Trade) Dhundar (Inland Center of Trade) Kannauj (Inland Center of Trade) Lower Doab (Inland Center of Trade)
English Channel		Europe	52	Champagne Chesapeake Bay Ivory Coast Lübeck North Sea		Amsterdam (Coastal Center of Trade) Antwerpen (Coastal Center of Trade) Calais (Coastal Center of Trade) Caux (Seine Estuary) Cotentin (Coastal Center of Trade) Den Haag (Rhine Estuary) East Frisia (Ems Estuary) Gloucester (Coastal Center of Trade) Lincolnshire (Coastal Center of Trade) London (Thames Estuary - Coastal Center of Trade) Vlaanderen (Coastal Center of Trade) York (Inland Center of Trade)
Ethiopia	Inland	Africa	53	Katsina	Alexandria Gulf of Aden	Darfur (Inland Center of Trade) Gonder (Inland Center of Trade) Soba (Inland Center of Trade)
Genoa	Inland sea	Europe	41	Alexandria Champagne Ragusa Valencia Tunis		Aix (Rhône Estuary - Coastal Center of Trade) Firenze (Inland Center of Trade) Genoa (Coastal Center of Trade) Lucca (Coastal Center of Trade) Milano (Inland Center of Trade) Napoli (Coastal Center of Trade) Palermo (Coastal Center of Trade) Pisa (Coastal Center of Trade) Roma (Coastal Center of Trade)
Girin		Asia	75	California	Beijing Nippon Siberia	Furdan (Coastal Center of Trade) Girin (Inland Center of Trade) Tyr (Amur Estuary)
Great Lakes	Inland	Africa	28		Congo Zanzibar	Buganda (Inland Center of Trade)
Gujarat		Asia	41	Coromandel Deccan Lahore	Gulf of Aden Hormuz Zanzibar	Ajmer (Inland Center of Trade) Chaul (Coastal Center of Trade) Chittor (Inland Center of Trade) Khambhat (Coastal Center of Trade) Mansura (Inland Center of Trade) Surat (Coastal Center of Trade) Thana (Coastal Center of Trade) Thatta (Indus Estuary)
Gulf of Aden		Africa	48	Coromandel Ethiopia Gujarat	Alexandria Hormuz Zanzibar	Aden (Coastal Center of Trade) Harer (Inland Center of Trade) Hobyo (Coastal Center of Trade) Mogadishu (Coastal Center of Trade) Mukha (Coffea Arabica) Shihr (Coastal Center of Trade) Zabid (Coastal Center of Trade) Zeila (Coastal Center of Trade)
Gulf of St. Lawrence		North America	51	Chesapeake Bay Hudson Bay Ohio	Bordeaux North Sea	Osheaga (Inland Center of Trade) Stadacona (Saint Lawrence Estuary)
Hangzhou	Inland sea	Asia	27	Canton Nippon	Beijing Malacca Xi'an	Fuzhou (Coastal Center of Trade) Haizhou (Huang He Estuary) Hangzhou (Coastal Center of Trade) Ningbo (Coastal Center of Trade) Suzhou (Yangtze Estuary)
Hormuz		Asia	30	Gulf of Aden Gujarat	Basra	Hormuz (Coastal Center of Trade) Mogostan (Coastal Center of Trade) Muscat (Coastal Center of Trade) Shiraz (Inland Center of Trade) Siraf (Coastal Center of Trade)
Hudson Bay		North America	47		Gulf of St. Lawrence	Muskegon (Nelson Estuary) Winnipeg (Inland Center of Trade)
Ivory Coast		Africa	38	Brazil Cape of Good Hope Congo Timbuktu	Bordeaux Caribbean English Channel Sevilla	Benguela (Coastal Center of Trade) Benin (Niger Estuary - Coastal Center of Trade) Calabar (Coastal Center of Trade) Cape Coast (Coastal Center of Trade) Cayor (Senegal Estuary) Gabu (Coastal Center of Trade) Gold Coast (Coastal Center of Trade) Ndongo (Coastal Center of Trade) Ngoyo (Congo Estuary)
Katsina	Inland	Africa	37		Ethiopia Timbuktu Tunis	Borno (Inland Center of Trade) Kanem (Inland Center of Trade) Katsina (Inland Center of Trade)
Kazan	Inland	Europe	22	Astrakhan Siberia	Novgorod	Kazan (Inland Center of Trade) Nizhny Novgorod (Inland Center of Trade)
Kiev	Inland	Europe	46	Crimea	Krakow Novgorod	Kiev (Inland Center of Trade) Smolensk (Inland Center of Trade) Vilnius (Inland Center of Trade)
Congo	Inland	Africa	32	Great Lakes	Ivory Coast Zambezi	Luba (Inland Center of Trade) Kuba (Inland Center of Trade) Mpemba (Inland Center of Trade) Rund (Inland Center of Trade)
Krakow	Inland	Europe	31	Kiev Pest	Baltic Sea Saxony Wien	Breslau (Inland Center of Trade) Krakow (Inland Center of Trade) Lublin (Inland Center of Trade) Lwow (Inland Center of Trade) Warszawa (Inland Center of Trade)
Lahore	Inland	Asia	36	Doab Lhasa	Gujarat Persia Samarkand	Kabul (Inland Center of Trade) Lahore (Inland Center of Trade) Multan (Inland Center of Trade) Roh (Inland Center of Trade) Sirhind (Inland Center of Trade)
Lhasa	Inland	Asia	24		Bengal Chengdu Lahore	Katmandu (Inland Center of Trade) Lhasa (Inland Center of Trade)
Lima		South America	32	Cuiaba	Panama	Chanchan (Coastal Center of Trade) Cuzco (Inland Center of Trade) Guayaquil (Guayas Estuary) Lima (Coastal Center of Trade) Quito (Inland Center of Trade)
Lübeck		Europe	43	Baltic Sea North Sea Rheinland Saxony	English Channel	Akershus (Coastal Center of Trade) Bremen (Weser Estuary - Coastal Center of Trade) Elfsborg (Coastal Center of Trade) Hamburg (Elbe Estuary - Coastal Center of Trade) Holstein (Coastal Center of Trade) Lübeck (Coastal Center of Trade) Sjælland (Sound Toll) Stettin (Oder Estuary) Stralsund (Coastal Center of Trade) Ostjylland (Coastal Center of Trade)
Malacca		Asia	67	Canton Hangzhou The Moluccas Siam	Bengal Cape of Good Hope	Brunei (Coastal Center of Trade) Kutaraja (Coastal Center of Trade) Melaka (Coastal Center of Trade) Palembang (Coastal Center of Trade) Pasai (Coastal Center of Trade) Pattani (Coastal Center of Trade) Siak (Coastal Center of Trade)
Mexico		North America	76	California Rio Grande	Caribbean Panama Polynesian Triangle	Cuetlaxtlan (Coastal Center of Trade) Mexico (Inland Center of Trade) Sayultecas (Coastal Center of Trade) Tlapanec (Coastal Center of Trade)
Mississippi River		North America	66	California Rio Grande	Caribbean Ohio	Chitimacha (Mississippi Estuary - Coastal Center of Trade) Tamaroa (Inland Center of Trade)
The Moluccas		Asia/Oceania (Vogelkop Peninsula only)	56	Australia Philippines	Malacca	Banten (Coastal Center of Trade) Demak (Coastal Center of Trade) Kalapa (Coastal Center of Trade) Makassar (Coastal Center of Trade) Palu (Coastal Center of Trade)
Nippon		Asia	68	Girin Polynesian Triangle	Hangzhou	Chikuzen (Coastal Center of Trade) Gyeongju (Coastal Center of Trade) Hanseong (Coastal Center of Trade) Musashi (Coastal Center of Trade) Settsu (Coastal Center of Trade) Suo (Coastal Center of Trade)
North Sea		Europe	41	Gulf of St. Lawrence White Sea	English Channel Lübeck	Ayrshire (Coastal Center of Trade) Bergenshus (Coastal Center of Trade) Cork (Coastal Center of Trade) Lothian (Coastal Center of Trade) Trøndelag (Coastal Center of Trade)
Novgorod	Inland sea	Europe	40	Kazan Kiev	Baltic Sea White Sea	Moskva (Inland Center of Trade) Novgorod (Inland Center of Trade) Neva (Neva Estuary- Coastal Center of Trade) Pskov (Inland Center of Trade) Yaroslavl (Inland Center of Trade) Yuriev (Inland Center of Trade)
Ohio	Inland	North America	67	Mississippi River	Chesapeake Bay Gulf of St. Lawrence	Bodewadmik (Inland Center of Trade) Honniasont (Inland Center of Trade)
Panama		North America	43	Lima Mexico Polynesian Triangle	Caribbean	Bogota (Inland Center of Trade) Cartagena (Coastal Center of Trade) Cauca (Coastal Center of Trade) Panama (Coastal Center of Trade)
Patagonia		South America	20		Rio de La Plata	Candelaria (Coastal Center of Trade) Picunmapu (Coastal Center of Trade) San Antonio (Coastal Center of Trade)
Persia	Inland	Asia	47	Basra Lahore Samarkand	Aleppo Astrakhan	Herat (Inland Center of Trade) Isfahan (Inland Center of Trade) Mashhad (Inland Center of Trade) Shirvan (Kura Estuary) Sari (Inland Center of Trade) Tabriz (Inland Center of Trade) Tehran (Inland Center of Trade) Yazd (Inland Center of Trade) Yerevan (Inland Center of Trade)
Pest	Inland	Europe	30	Crimea Ragusa	Krakow Wien	Pest (Inland Center of Trade) Pozsony (Inland Center of Trade) Torda (Inland Center of Trade) Tîrgoviste (Inland Center of Trade)
Philippines		Asia	23	Canton	The Moluccas Polynesian Triangle	Butuan (Coastal Center of Trade) Cebu (Coastal Center of Trade) Manila (Coastal Center of Trade) Panay (Coastal Center of Trade) Pangasinan (Coastal Center of Trade) Sulu (Coastal Center of Trade)
Polynesian Triangle		Oceania	35	California Mexico Philippines	Australia Nippon Panama	Micronesia (Coastal Center of Trade) Oahu (Coastal Center of Trade) Tonga (Coastal Center of Trade)
Ragusa	Inland sea	Europe	40	Constantinople	Genoa Venice Pest	Athens (Coastal Center of Trade) Dubrovnik (Coastal Center of Trade) Durazzo (Coastal Center of Trade) Lika (Coastal Center of Trade) Nandorfehervar (Inland Center of Trade) Selanik (Coastal Center of Trade)
Rheinland	Inland	Europe	42	Saxony Wien	Champagne Lübeck	Dortmund (Inland Center of Trade) Frankfurt (Inland Center of Trade) Köln (Inland Center of Trade) Mainz (Inland Center of Trade) Nürnberg (Inland Center of Trade) Straßburg (Inland Center of Trade)
Rio de La Plata		South America	33	Cuiaba Patagonia	Brazil	Quisquisacate (Inland Center of Trade) Rio de la Plata (Parana Estuary- Coastal Center of Trade)
Rio Grande		North America	42		Mexico Mississippi River	Coahuilteco (Rio Grande Estuary) Pueblo (Inland Center of Trade)
Safi		Africa	27	Timbuktu	Sevilla	Agadir (Coastal Center of Trade) Draa (Inland Center of Trade) Gharb (Coastal Center of Trade) Mitidja (Coastal Center of Trade) Tafilalt (Inland Center of Trade) Tala Imsam (Inland Center of Trade)
Samarkand	Inland	Asia	52	Lahore Siberia Yumen	Astrakhan Persia	Kashgar (Inland Center of Trade) Khiva (Inland Center of Trade) Merv (Inland Center of Trade) Samarkand (Inland Center of Trade) Yarkand (Inland Center of Trade)
Saxony	Inland	Europe	35	Krakow Wien	Lübeck Rheinland	Berlin (Inland Center of Trade) Erfurt (Inland Center of Trade) Magdeburg (Inland Center of Trade) Prague (Inland Center of Trade) Sachen (Inland Center of Trade)
Sevilla		Europe	52	Caribbean Ivory Coast Safi Tunis	Valencia	Burgos (Inland Center of Trade) Cadiz (Coastal Center of Trade) Cantabria (Coastal Center of Trade) Leon (Inland Center of Trade) Lisboa (Tagus Estuary - Coastal Center of Trade) Porto (Douro Estuary - Coastal Center of Trade) Sevilla (Guadiana Estuary - Coastal Center of Trade) Tangiers (Coastal Center of Trade) Toledo (Inland Center of Trade)
Siam		Asia	60	Burma	Malacca Canton	Ayutthaya (Coastal Center of Trade) Phnom Penh (Coastal Center of Trade) Prek Russey (Mekong Estuary) Vientiane (Inland Center of Trade) Vijaya (Coastal Center of Trade)
Siberia	Inland	Asia	53	Girin	Kazan Samarkand	Mangazea (Taz Estuary)
Timbuktu	Inland	Africa	53	Katsina	Ivory Coast Safi	Gao (Inland Center of Trade) Jenne (Inland Center of Trade) Jomo (Inland Center of Trade) Massina (Inland Center of Trade) Timbuktu (Inland Center of Trade)
Tunis	Inland sea	Africa	27	Katsina	Valencia Genoa Sevilla	Djerba (Coastal Center of Trade) Tripoli (Coastal Center of Trade) Tunis (Coastal Center of Trade)
Valencia	Inland sea	Europe	21	Sevilla Tunis	Genoa	Barcelona (Coastal Center of Trade) Tarragona (Ebro Estuary) València (Coastal Center of Trade) Zaragoza (Inland Center of Trade)
Venice	Inland sea	Europe	25	Alexandria Ragusa Wien		Ferrara (Po Estuary) Istria (Coastal Center of Trade) Mantua (Inland Center of Trade) Venezia (Coastal Center of Trade) Verona (Coastal Center of Trade) Urbino (Coastal Center of Trade)
White Sea		Europe	20	Novgorod	North Sea	Cherdyn (Inland Center of Trade) Kholmogory (Coastal Center of Trade)
Wien	Inland	Europe	35	Krakow Pest	Rheinland Saxony Venice	Konstanz (Inland Center of Trade) Regensburg (Inland Center of Trade) Salzburg (Inland Center of Trade) Ulm (Inland Center of Trade) Wien (Inland Center of Trade)
Xi'an	Inland	Asia	25	Chengdu Hangzhou	Beijing Yumen	Wuchang (Inland Center of Trade) Xi'an (Inland Center of Trade)
Yumen	Inland	Asia	48	Beijing Xi'an	Samarkand	Hotan (Inland Center of Trade) Qaraqorum (Inland Center of Trade) Yumen (Inland Center of Trade)
Zambezi	Inland	Africa	29	Congo	Zanzibar	Kalonga (Inland Center of Trade) Tete (Inland Center of Trade) Zimbabwe (Inland Center of Trade)
Zanzibar		Africa	36	Great Lakes Gujarat Gulf of Aden Zambezi	Cape of Good Hope	Inhambane (Coastal Center of Trade) Kilwa (Coastal Center of Trade) Malindi (Coastal Center of Trade) Menabe (Coastal Center of Trade) Mombasa (Coastal Center of Trade) Pate (Coastal Center of Trade) Quelimane (Zambezi Estuary) Sofala (Coastal Center of Trade) Vatomandry (Coastal Center of Trade) Zanzibar (Coastal Center of Trade)