Starcharts
Galactic Astrogation Chart
This interactive map needs JavaScript and WebGL. Here are the 65 places it charts. There is also a full gazetteer.
Deep Core
- Tython (Jedi site): An ancient world in the Deep Core, said to be where the Jedi Order began. A ring of standing stones on a mountaintop is still strong in the Force.
Core Worlds
- Coruscant (Capital world): A city-planet built over every inch of its surface, seat of the Galactic Senate and of the Jedi Temple for a thousand generations. Its coordinates are zero on every navigator's chart, and the Empire renamed it Imperial Center.
- Chandrila (Planet): A pastoral Core world of rolling hills and lakes, homeworld of Senator Mon Mothma and the first capital of the New Republic after the Empire's fall.
- Alderaan (Planet): A peaceful world of mountains and seas, famed for its culture and diplomacy, and home of Bail Organa and his adopted daughter Leia.
- Kuat (Shipyard world): Home of Kuat Drive Yards, whose orbital shipyards ring the planet. Its slipways built the Republic's Venator cruisers and the Empire's Imperial-class Star Destroyers.
- Corellia (Shipyard world): An industrial world of shipyards and smugglers, home of the Corellian Engineering Corporation and of Han Solo. In Solo a young Han escapes its scrumrat gangs by signing up with the Imperial Navy.
- Hosnian Prime (Capital world): A Core world that hosts the Senate of the New Republic in the years after the Galactic Civil War.
The Colonies
- Cato Neimoidia (Planet): A wealthy world of bridge cities slung between rock arches, a purse world of the Trade Federation's Neimoidian leaders.
Inner Rim
- Onderon (Planet): A jungle world whose walled capital Iziz falls to a Separatist puppet king. Ahsoka Tano trains the rebels who fight to free it, led by Saw Gerrera and his sister Steela.
- Jakku (Planet): A desert world littered with the wrecks of the last great battle of the Galactic Civil War. Rey grows up there scavenging parts from fallen Star Destroyers.
Expansion Region
- Mimban (Planet): A mud world of endless trench war, where Han serves as an Imperial infantryman and meets Chewbacca and the thief Tobias Beckett.
- Umbara (Planet): A shadow world of perpetual twilight whose people side with the Separatists. The 501st Legion fights through its glowing jungles under a harsh new Jedi general.
- Pasaana (Planet): A desert world where the Aki-Aki hold the Festival of the Ancestors every 42 years. Rey and her friends follow an old trail there in search of a Sith wayfinder.
Mid Rim
- Ord Mantell (Smugglers' haven): A rough Mid Rim world of scrapyards and spaceports, where Han Solo ran into a bounty hunter who changed his mind about putting off paying Jabba.
- Kashyyyk (Species homeworld): A forest world of giant wroshyr trees, homeworld of the Wookiees. Yoda leads the clones defending it in the last days of the Clone Wars, and the Empire later enslaves its people.
- Naboo (Planet): A lush world of lakes and plains shared by the human Naboo and the Gungans, whose cities lie beneath its seas. Padmé Amidala was its elected queen, and Palpatine its senator.
- Nal Hutta (Smugglers' haven): Swampy throneworld of the Hutt clans at the heart of Hutt Space. Its moon Nar Shaddaa is a vertical city of smugglers and bounty hunters.
- Wobani (Planet): A grey Imperial labour camp world, where Jyn Erso is held until the Rebellion breaks her out.
- Jedha (Jedi site): A cold desert moon due galactic west of the Deep Core, a holy place for believers in the Force, occupied by the Empire for its kyber crystals. Saw Gerrera's partisans fight on in its old city.
- Takodana (Smugglers' haven): A green world of lakes in the Western Reaches, where Maz Kanata keeps an ancient castle as a neutral haven for smugglers and travellers.
- Kijimi (Smugglers' haven): A frozen mountain city of thieves and spice runners under the First Order's watch, where Poe Dameron once ran with the Spice Runners.
- Hutt Space (Territory): A swathe of space east of the Core, on the border of the Mid and Outer Rim, ruled by the Hutt clans from Nal Hutta. Smugglers, spice and bounty hunters flow through it, and neither Republic nor Empire ever quite tamed it.
Outer Rim Territories
- Tatooine (Smugglers' haven): A desert world under twin suns, ruled by the Hutts and about as far from the bright centre of the galaxy as you can get. Anakin and Luke Skywalker both grew up here, and Obi-Wan Kenobi watched over Luke from exile.
- Geonosis (Species homeworld): A ringed red desert world of droid foundries and hive spires. The first battle of the Clone Wars is fought in its arena and across its plains.
- Rodia (Species homeworld): A humid swamp world, homeworld of the Rodians. Padmé goes there to keep her old friend Onaconda Farr's world from defecting to the Separatists.
- Ryloth (Species homeworld): Rocky homeworld of the Twi'leks in the Outer Rim. Cham Syndulla's freedom fighters and the Republic free it from Separatist occupation, and his daughter Hera grows up to fly for the rebels.
- Christophsis (Planet): A world of crystal cities in the Outer Rim, where Anakin Skywalker breaks a Separatist blockade and meets his new Padawan, Ahsoka Tano.
- Savareen (Planet): A dusty shore world where Han and his crew land after the Kessel Run to refine their stolen coaxium.
- Scarif (Military base): A tropical world of atolls behind a planetary shield, home of the Empire's Citadel archive, where its most secret plans are kept.
- Kessel (Smugglers' haven): A mining world where the Pyke Syndicate works slaves in its spice mines. In Solo, Han makes the Kessel Run with stolen coaxium through the Akkadese Maelstrom, in about twelve parsecs, where other ships need twenty or more.
- Eadu (Planet): A stormy world of rain-soaked mountains where Galen Erso is forced to work on the Death Star at an Imperial research station.
- Mon Cala (Species homeworld): An ocean world of floating cities, shared by the Mon Calamari and the Quarren. Its shipyards build the cruisers at the heart of the Rebel fleet, commanded by admirals like Ackbar.
- Felucia (Planet): A humid world of giant fungi and vivid plants, fought over by the Republic and the Separatists in the Clone Wars.
- Saleucami (Planet): A hot, arid Separatist world besieged by the Republic late in the Clone Wars.
- Moraband (Sith world): The ancient homeworld of the Sith, a red valley of tombs where long-dead Sith Lords are buried. Yoda faces the dark side there in the last episodes of The Clone Wars.
- Serenno (Planet): A wealthy forested world ruled by Count Dooku, the former Jedi who leads the Separatist Confederacy.
- Raxus (Capital world): Capital of the Confederacy of Independent Systems and seat of the Separatist Parliament, where Padmé goes in secret to talk peace with Mina Bonteri.
- Mandalore (Species homeworld): Homeworld of the Mandalorians, whose clans and warrior creed spread across the galaxy. Its domed cities stand on a desert world scarred by ancient wars.
- Dathomir (Sith world): A blood-red world of the Nightsisters, witches who wield dark magick. Darth Maul and Savage Opress were born among its Nightbrothers.
- Dantooine (Military base): A remote grassland world on the Outer Rim that once hid a rebel base.
- Mygeeto (Planet): A frozen world of crystalline cities belonging to the InterGalactic Banking Clan, fought over in the last days of the Clone Wars.
- Yavin 4 (Military base): A jungle moon of the gas giant Yavin, where the Rebel Alliance hides its main base in ancient Massassi temples. The rebels launch their attack on the first Death Star from here.
- Lah'mu (Planet): A remote farm world of black sand where Galen Erso hides with his wife and daughter, until Orson Krennic comes for him.
- Aldhani (Planet): A highland world where an Imperial garrison sits on a dam above the plains. Cassian Andor joins a rebel cell there to steal the sector's payroll during a meteor shower festival.
- Ferrix (Planet): A salvage-yard world whose tight-knit people live by the strike of the Bell, where Cassian Andor grows up.
- Narkina 5 (Planet): A moon of the gas giant Narkina whose Imperial prison is a factory built out in the sea, its floors electrified.
- Lothal (Planet): A grassland world on the north-eastern edge of the Outer Rim, near Mon Cala, whose Imperial occupation turns the crew of the Ghost into rebels. Ezra Bridger grows up on its streets.
- Hoth (Military base): A frozen world at the edge of the Anoat sector, where the Rebel Alliance hides Echo Base after the Battle of Yavin.
- Bespin (Planet): A gas giant whose Cloud City floats in the habitable layer of its atmosphere, mining tibanna gas under Baron Administrator Lando Calrissian.
- Sullust (Species homeworld): A volcanic world of underground cities, homeworld of the Sullustans. The Rebel fleet gathers near it before the Battle of Endor.
- Dagobah (Jedi site): A swamp world teeming with life and thick with the Force, where Yoda goes into exile and Luke Skywalker trains with him.
- Mustafar (Sith world): A volcanic world of lava rivers and mining stations, where Darth Vader keeps a fortress on its slopes.
- Utapau (Planet): A world of deep sinkholes lined with cities, home of the Pau'ans and Utai. Obi-Wan Kenobi tracks General Grievous there near the end of the Clone Wars.
- Polis Massa (Planet): An asteroid outpost of archaeologists and medical droids, where the surviving Jedi regroup after the fall of the Republic.
- Endor (Planet): A forest moon home to the Ewoks, where the Empire guards the shield generator for its second Death Star.
- D'Qar (Military base): A forested world in the Outer Rim where the Resistance under General Leia Organa keeps its hidden base.
- Crait (Military base): A mineral world of white salt over red earth, with an abandoned Rebel base dug into its cliffs.
- Cantonica (Smugglers' haven): A desert world in the Corporate Sector whose casino city Canto Bight is a playground for the galaxy's richest, many of them rich from selling arms to both sides of the war.
- Nevarro (Smugglers' haven): A volcanic Outer Rim world where the Bounty Hunters' Guild works out of a cantina. Din Djarin takes the job that leads him to Grogu there, and Greef Karga later turns the town into a trading hub.
- Akkadese Maelstrom (Hyperspace hazard): A churning storm cloud beside Kessel, full of gravity wells and home to the giant summa-verminoth. The Kessel Run cuts through it, and Han takes the Millennium Falcon through on a shortcut.
Wild Space
- Kamino (Planet): A storm-lashed ocean world beyond the Outer Rim, missing from the Jedi Archives. Its cloners raise the Republic's clone army in stilt cities above the waves.
- Teth (Planet): A jungle world of mesas topped by an old B'omarr monastery, where Anakin and Ahsoka rescue Jabba the Hutt's kidnapped son.
Unknown Regions
- Ilum (Jedi site): An icy world where Jedi younglings once gathered kyber crystals for their first lightsabers. In the First Order's time it holds Starkiller Base.
- Ahch-To (Jedi site): A remote ocean world of rocky islands in the Unknown Regions, said to hold the first Jedi Temple.
- Exegol (Sith world): A hidden world of the Sith deep in the Unknown Regions, shrouded in storms and lightning and reachable only by a Sith wayfinder.
Hyperspace lanes
- Perlemian Trade Route: One of the two oldest hyperlanes, running out of Coruscant past Brentaal, where it crosses the Hydian Way, and on through Taanab to Felucia and the galactic north-east.
- Corellian Run: The other ancient lane out of the Core, running south-east from Coruscant through every region of the galaxy to Lamaredd and Naos in the Outer Rim. Its traffic helped make the Corellian system rich.
- Hydian Way: A long lane that crosses the whole galaxy, from Bonadan in the Corporate Sector in to the Core at Brentaal and back out through Eriadu to Imynusoph on the southern rim.
- Rimma Trade Route: Runs from Abregado-rae on the edge of the Core out through the Colonies, Inner Rim, Expansion Region and Mid Rim, past Yag'Dhul, Sullust, Eriadu and Dagobah, to Kal'Shebbol in the Outer Rim.
- Corellian Trade Spine: Runs from Corellia through Yag'Dhul, where it crosses the Rimma, and down through the Anoat sector near Bespin and Hoth to meet the Hydian Way near Terminus.
- Triellus Trade Route: A lane controlled by the Hutts, winding from Hutt Space past Eadu down to Roon and through Tatooine to Llanic.
- Hyperspace routes into the Unknown Regions: No reliable lanes cross the Unknown Regions. The Empire's survivors mapped secret routes west, and the First Order and the Sith wayfinders use them.