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Encyclopedia > Quadling Country

The Quadling Country is the southern division of L. Frank Baum's Land of Oz. It is distinguished by the color red, worn by most of the local inhabitants as well as the color of their surroundings.


Like all the countries of Oz, the Quadling Country contains various unusual sights and places. Among them are,


from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz:

  • the palace of Glinda the sorceress, also known in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and other Oz books as the witch of the South
  • the mountains in which dwell the belligerent and armless Hammer-Heads
  • the forest of the Fighting Trees

from The Emerald City of Oz:

  • Miss Cuttenclip, who cuts paper dolls from live paper
  • Fuddlecumjig, where the inhabitants are made from puzzle pieces and have to be reassembled often
  • Utensia, a kingdom inhabited by animated eating and cooking implements
  • Bunbury, a land where all the inhabitants are animated food
  • Bunnybury, where intelligent rabbits walk on their hind legs and wear clothes
  • Rigmarole Town and Flutterbudget Center, where people either explain things in a roundabout way or worry over nothing

from The Scarecrow of Oz:

  • Jinxland, a monarchy separated from the rest of the Quadling Country by a gorge



The land | The characters (including Dorothy and The Wizard)
The books | The authors (Baum | Thompson | McGraw | Volkov) | The illustrators (Denslow | Neill)
The film adaptations (The Wizard of Oz | The Wiz | Return to Oz)

  Results from FactBites:
 
land of Oz: Information from Answers.com (2887 words)
The Land of Oz is roughly rectangular in shape, and divided along the diagonals into four countries: Munchkin Country in the East, Winkie Country in the West, Gillikin Country in the North, and Quadling Country in the South.
The ruler of the Winkie Country is the Emperor, the Tin Woodman.
Quadling Country is largely marshland, inhabited by the artistic and sexually free Quadlings.
Munchkin Country - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (454 words)
Munchkin Country (or Munchkinland in the 1939 film and its imitators) is a region in the fictional Land of Oz in L.
Munchkin Country is distinguished by the color blue, which is worn by most of the Munchkins as well as the color of their surroundings.
The ruler in Munchkin Country is the Wicked Witch of the East, but upon Dorothy's arrival in Oz, she is eliminated when the house lands on top of her, causing much celebration among the Munchkins.
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