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Encyclopedia > Winkie Country

The Winkie Country is a division of the fictional Land of Oz. It is distinguished by the color yellow which is worn by most of the local inhabitants as well as the color of their surroundings.


This was the country ruled by the Wicked Witch of the West before Dorothy melted her with a bucket of water in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; since then, the Tin Woodman has ruled the Winkies as their Emperor. The Winkie Country is separated only by the Deadly Desert from the underground Dominions of the Nome King.


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


from The Emerald City of Oz:

from The Road to Oz:

  • the palace of the Tin Woodman, created because the Wicked Witch's castle was too damp
  • the Truth Pond, which anyone can bathe in and be freed of an enchantment, but must always afterward tell the truth

from The Patchwork Girl of Oz:

  • the Tottenhots, small sprite-like people who sleep during the day and play at night

from Tik-Tok of Oz:

  • Oogaboo, a monarchy where items of value grow on trees; it is separated from the Winkie Country by a mountain range

from The Lost Princess of Oz:

  • Thi, where bipeds with heart-shaped chests subsist only on thistles and use mechanical dragons to pull their chariots
  • Herku, where the natives and extremely thin and muscular, strong enough to keep giants as slaves
  • Bear Center, in a forest where stuffed bears are ruled by the Lavender Bear and guided by the wind-up Little Pink Bear
  • Yip Country, a republic advised by the Frogman and separated from the Winkie Country at the top of a mountain



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:
 
Winkie Country - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (434 words)
The Winkie Country is a division of the fictional Land of Oz.
This was the country ruled by the Wicked Witch of the West before Dorothy melted her with a bucket of water in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; since then, the Tin Woodman has ruled the Winkies as their Emperor.
The Winkie Country is separated only by the Deadly Desert from the underground Dominions of the Nome King.
Oz: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Oz (350 words)
Oz is an imaginary country first introduced in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L.
Oz is a squarish shaped place, surrounded on all sides by a Deadly Desert and divided into four quadrants: the Gillikin country in the north, the Munchkin country in the east, the Quadling country in the south and the Winkie country in the west.
Princess Ozma rules the country as a benevolent dictator.
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