Is Tamriel bigger than Earth?

As big as it needs to be. Bethesda has carefully refrained from giving Tamriel a definite size but there are a number of estimates floating around out there. In general, most of them have Tamriel ranging from the size of Europe to the size of Asia.
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How big is Tamriel compared to?

That is over 15 times the size of the Roman Empire that was about 2,000,000 sq kilometers. It's almost the size of China, the USA, and Europe.
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Is Tamriel the entire planet?

Tamriel (which translates from Aldmeris as “Dawn's Beauty” ) isn't on Earth. It's on Nirn, which is basically the mortal realm. Nirn is also known as Mundus. Geographically, Tamriel is the main continent and is located in the center of Nirn.
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Is there land beyond Tamriel?

In all, there are five other continents on Nirn aside from Tamriel: Akavir, Pyandonea, Atmora, Yokuda and Aldmeris. Tamriel is the largest central continent, so it is no wonder that the majority of The Elder Scrolls has taken place in the region.
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Is Tamriel a super continent?

Tamriel is one of three supercontinents on Nirn, and one of two hosting intelligent life. The other two continents include Atmora and Akavir.
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What lies beyond Tamriel?

The cold, barren land called Atmora is to the north of Tamriel, which is where the Nords of Tamriel hailed from. To the west of Tamriel lies Yokuda, which was the former homeland of the Redguards of Tamriel. To the southwest of Tamriel lies Pyandonea.
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How big is all of Tamriel?

According to the manual, Tamriel (where the bulk of all the games take place is) is at least 3,000 km by 2,000 km. So, although it's not exactly a rectangle, let's say that's 6,000,000 km square or 2,300,000 square miles.
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What planet is Tamriel on?

The Elder Scrolls games primarily take place on the continent of Tamriel, located on the planet of Nirn.
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What is the largest city in Tamriel?

Based on older discussions on various forums and sites, it seems a general consensus is that Almalexia or the Imperial City is the largest, with Vivec City in third place after these two.
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What is Tamriel oldest city?

Windhelm is a city in northeastern Skyrim, close to the border with Morrowind, and is the only substantial city in the Hold of Eastmarch. It is not only the oldest city in Skyrim, but is the oldest continuously inhabited human settlement in Tamriel.
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Does Earth exist in Skyrim?

The vast majority of the action in Elder Scrolls V : Skyrim takes place in the province of Skyrim which is in the northern regions of the continent of Tamriel. Beyond that it is difficult to say, despite resembling Earth, the fact that there are two visible moons suggests that it is another planet.
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How big is Tamriel canonically?

Tamriel has no canonically established size, however, leaving its real scale to the imagination of the players. This leads to vastly different scales and in-game world sizes across the different Elder Scrolls games.
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How long is a year in Tamriel?

Tamriel's year consists of 364 days, split into twelve months. Six months have 31 days, five have 30 days and one has 28 days. Very similar to the Gregorian Calendar, real-world equivalents to Tamriel's system of time are listed in parentheses. The days are organized into a week seven days long.
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How big is Skyrim actually?

Like most games, the Skyrim map is really quite small, at only 37 km². Skyrim's heightmap is rectangular and uses 119 x 94 = 11186 in-game "cells". The engine uses the same cell size as in Oblivion, Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas - 57.6 metres (63 yards) to the side, 3317.76 m² (3 969 square yards) of area.
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Why is Elder Scrolls only in Tamriel?

Because that's the main setting. Tamriel is a continent, and every game has taken place within it. Morrowind, Cyrodiil, Skyrim, and Solstheim are all a part of Tamriel. Sometimes, though, the setting will change from Tamriel to the realm of Oblivion, such as the main story line of.
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How big is Skyrim in lore?

This article from Elder Scrolls Wiki(yes I know they're not as reliable as UESP) http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Skyrim says, in the "Geography" section, that Skyrim is 105,000 sq mi, which places it at roughly between the sizes of Italy and New Zealand in the real world.
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Who are the oldest beings in Tamriel?

If we want to count Aedra/Daedra, Molag Bal or maybe Mehrunes Dagon are possibly the oldest entities out there, assuming they actually came from a previous kalpa (since, depending on how kalpas work, that'd make their 'birthdate' pre-Dawn of Time).
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What is the oldest building in Tamriel?

The Direnni Tower, also known as the Adamantine Tower, Ada-Mantia, [UL 1] Ur-Tower, [UL 1] Tower Zero, and House of We by the Aedra, [UL 2] is believed to be the oldest building in Tamriel, if not the entirety of Nirn. It is believed to have been built by the Aedra soon after the creation of Mundus, around ME 2500.
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How many people live on Tamriel?

So a few things to note. This is assuming that Tamriel is a lot bigger, around the size of Antarctica. And it's total population is roughly 50 Million.
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Is Tamriel a continent or planet?

Tamriel is a continent on the planet Nirn and is also the continent in which all of the previous Elder Scrolls games take place.
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Why does Tamriel have two moons?

The two moons, Masser and Secunda, are believed to have origins connected to the creation of Mundus, the mortal realm of Tamriel, and are associated with the god Lorkhan.
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Is Skyrim a continent?

Tamriel is all the land that The Elder Scroll series takes place in. You can say it's a continent while Skyrim is a country.
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How long does it take to travel across Tamriel?

To put that in perspective, it's roughly the size of the state of West Virginia in the United States. Now, assuming an average walking speed of 3 miles per hour, it would take you approximately 4,666 hours to walk across the entirety of Skyrim without any breaks.
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Can you explore all of Tamriel?

As of Summerset, the answer is more than half. I wonder how they're going to handle Black Marsh, since in the lore most races can't really go to the heart of the marsh due to the harsh environment and disseases. Probably have to wait 3 years (3 chapters) from now.
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How big is the Tamriel in lore?

Going back even further than Daggerfall, the manual for Arena tells us that Tamriel is “three to four thousand kilometers east to west and two to three thousand kilometers north to south.” If we overlay the 250 mile lines from the PGE1 onto the Arena map, we get a Tamriel that is roughly 1300 miles (2100 km) or so east ...
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