Real World maps are random maps introduced in Age of Empires II: The Conquerors. They are designed to match their real world counterpart. Usually, locations that were to home to great empires were chosen to be depicted as a Real World map, including the shape of continents or countries.
As opposed to regular random maps, they always have exactly the same design, only the order of the starting positions of the players and the distribution of some resources is random. The maps generate in a unique way where a random map script is loaded on top of a scenario, making them hybrids of random maps and custom scenarios.
So far, 28 Real World maps have been introduced: