Discovering Chernarus Scenic Tour

Prague → Vodochody

Your journey begins near Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. While Prague itself is far larger than anything seen in Chernarus, the outskirts display the architectural style that inspired the fictional country's urban environments.

Panel apartment blocks, industrial warehouses, and Soviet-era infrastructure around Prague mirror the Eastern Bloc visual style used in cities like Chernogorsk in Arma 2.

Chernarus Connection:
Bohemia Interactive developers grew up in this region and used the surrounding landscapes as the visual foundation for the fictional post-Soviet republic.

Vodochody → Ústí nad Labem

This leg takes you into what many fans believe is the strongest real-world inspiration for Chernarus.

Ústí nad Labem sits in a rugged valley carved by the Elbe River, surrounded by steep forested hills and industrial zones. The mixture of natural terrain and aging Soviet industry closely resembles the geography around Elektrozavodsk.

Chernarus Connection:
The combination of river valley, industry, and steep terrain strongly parallels the map’s eastern coastal cities.

Follow the Elbe River north toward Děčín, one of the most dramatic landscapes in northern Bohemia.

Cliffs tower above the river, forests blanket the hills, and medieval castles overlook the valleys — scenery strikingly similar to the mountainous northern regions of Chernarus.

Chernarus Connection:

These cliff-lined valleys inspired the steep terrain seen around Black Mountain (Černá Hora) in the Arma map.

Děčín → Chomutov

Leaving the river valley, you’ll cross rugged terrain dotted with coal mines, factories, and power stations.

This region captures the industrial character used in Chernarus’ backstory — a former Soviet satellite state struggling economically after the Cold War.

Chernarus Connection:

Industrial infrastructure like this inspired power plants and factory complexes scattered across the Chernarus map.

Chomutov → Karlovy Vary

Now you enter quieter countryside filled with forests and small towns.

The winding roads, dense woodland, and rural villages strongly resemble areas around Zelenogorsk and the western countryside of Chernarus.

Chernarus Connection:
These landscapes helped define the rural character of the fictional nation — peaceful farmland hiding military checkpoints and old Soviet infrastructure.

Karlovy Vary → Pardubice

This leg crosses broad agricultural plains dotted with railways, farmhouses, and scattered towns.

The region reflects the central lowlands of Chernarus, where many missions take place across open fields and forests.

Chernarus Connection:

The layout of farmland and villages here closely resembles the central plains region between Chernogorsk and Stary Sobor in Arma.

Pardubice → Prague

The final leg returns you to Prague, completing your exploration of the landscapes that inspired one of the most iconic military simulation maps ever created.

From industrial valleys to quiet farmland and forested mountains, the terrain you've flown over mirrors the world that millions of players explored in Chernarus.

Chernarus Connection:
The realism of the map comes directly from the real geography you’ve just seen from the air.