Editing Risk (game) (section)

===Territories===
The following is a typical layout of the ''Risk'' game board, with a table of the corresponding continent and territory names.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gamingcorner.nl/risk-territories.htm |title=Risk territories |work=The Gaming Corner |access-date=2006-05-12 |df=dmy-all |archive-date=14 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120414205101/http://www.gamingcorner.nl/risk-territories.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> Each territory on the typical ''Risk'' game board represents a real-life geographical or political region. As such, the territory [[border]]s are drawn to resemble the geography of those regions. This provides an interior space on which to place the army units, adds an element of realism to the game, and also adds complexity. Most of the territories represent a combination of countries or states; some that have names of single countries or states, such as Argentina, do not represent the boundaries of the real-life entity. Antarctica, the Caribbean, New Zealand, and the Philippines are not represented.

[[File:Risk game board.svg|thumb|center|600px|A representation of the ''Risk'' game board, showing the different territories, an approximation of their borders, and an approximation of their usual coloring, the asterisk denoting the missing link in the 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition.]]

The numbers in parentheses represent the number of additional armies granted during the reinforcement stage of a player's turn who controls all of the territories in that continent. Some versions of the board use alternative names for some territories. These names are in parentheses. Not all variations occur concurrently.

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; {{color sample|yellow}} [[North America]] (5)
# [[Alaska]]
# [[Alberta]] ([[Western Canada]])
# [[Central America]]
# [[Eastern United States]]
# [[Greenland]]
# [[Northwest Territories|Northwest Territory]]
# [[Ontario]] ([[Central Canada]])
# [[Quebec]] ([[Eastern Canada]])
# [[Western United States]]
; {{color sample|red}} [[South America]] (2)
# [[Argentina]]
# [[Brazil]]
# [[Peru]]
# [[Venezuela]]
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; {{color sample|blue}} [[Europe]] (5)
# [[Great Britain]] ([[British Isles|Great Britain &]] [[Ireland]])
# [[Iceland]]
# [[Northern Europe]]
# [[Scandinavia]]
# [[Southern Europe]]
# [[Ukraine]] ([[Eastern Europe]], [[Russia]])
# [[Western Europe]]
; {{color sample|darkorange|description=orange}} [[Africa]] (3)
# [[Congo Basin|Congo]] ([[Central Africa]])
# [[East Africa]]<ref group="note" name="Africa Mideast" />
# [[Egypt]]
# [[Madagascar]]
# [[North Africa]]
# [[Southern Africa|South Africa]]
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; {{color sample|forestgreen|description=green}} [[Asia]] (7)
# [[Afghanistan (region)|Afghanistan]]<ref group="note" name="Afghanistan" />
# [[China]]
# [[India]] ([[Hindustan]])
# [[Irkutsk Oblast|Irkutsk]]
# [[Japan]]
# [[Kamchatka]]
# [[Middle East]]<ref group="note" name="Africa Mideast" />
# [[Mongolia]]
# [[Siam]] ([[Southeast Asia]])
# [[Siberia]]
# [[Ural (region)|Ural]]
# [[Sakha Republic|Yakutsk]]
; {{color sample|purple}} [[Oceania|Australia]] (2)
# [[Eastern states of Australia|Eastern Australia]]
# [[Indonesia]]
# [[New Guinea]]
# [[Western Australia]]
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'''Notes'''<ref name="RiskEvolution">{{cite web |author=Dave Shapiro |title=Risk: The Evolution of a Game |date=December 2002 |work=The Games Journal |url=http://www.thegamesjournal.com/articles/Risk.shtml |access-date=2007-05-12 |df=dmy-all |archive-date=2 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120602063558/http://www.thegamesjournal.com/articles/Risk.shtml |url-status=usurped }}</ref>
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<ref name="Afghanistan">The territory of Afghanistan does not include the present-day country of [[Afghanistan]].</ref>
<ref name="Africa Mideast">In the 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition, the movement route between the territories of [[East Africa]] and [[Middle East]] was removed; this was later confirmed to be a manufacturing error, an error repeated in ''[[Risk II]]''. Subsequent editions restored the missing route.</ref>
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