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Winkie Country

also Country of the Winkies · North Winkie Country · Winkie Land

The yellow country, whose people the Tin Woodman came to rule.

First named in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, ch. 2

returned the Lion, “and that is to go to the land of the Winkies, seek out the Wicked Witch, and destroy her.”

Where this is

  • placed In Oz worked out

    read out of the chapters cited on this page, not stated in any one sentence of them

Names in the books

  • called Winkie Country 38 chapters

    The Emerald City of Oz7

    The Patchwork Girl of Oz11252627

    The Scarecrow of Oz13

    The Lost Princess of Oz3456914

    The Tin Woodman of Oz13

    The Magic of Oz22

    Glinda of Oz11415

    The Royal Book of Oz4111316

    Kabumpo in Oz6192021

    The Cowardly Lion of Oz9

    Grampa in Oz15

    The Lost King of Oz1810

    The Gnome King of Oz178

    The Giant Horse of Oz4

    Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz1

    The Yellow Knight of Oz25

  • called Country of the Winkies 21 chapters

    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz1222

    The Marvelous Land of Oz3811

    The Road to Oz131417

    The Emerald City of Oz5623

    The Patchwork Girl of Oz56142527

    The Lost Princess of Oz6

    The Royal Book of Oz4

    Kabumpo in Oz410

    The Gnome King of Oz1

  • called Winkie Land 3 chapters

    Little Wizard Stories of Oz6

    The Lost King of Oz5

    The Gnome King of Oz2

  • called North Winkie Country 1 chapter

    Kabumpo in Oz19

What the books say it is

  • region west 1 chapter
    • And in the Country of the Munchkins, over at the East, everything is blue; and in the South country of the Quadlings everything is red; and in the West country of the Winkies, where the Tin Woodman rules, everything is yellow.
      The Marvelous Land of Oz, ch. 3
  • colour yellow 2 chapters
    • The fences and houses and bridges were all painted bright red, just as they had been painted yellow in the country of the Winkies
      The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, ch. 22
    • Little mounds of yellowish green were away at the right, while on the left waved a group of tall leafy trees bearing yellow blossoms that looked like tassels and pompoms.
      The Road to Oz, ch. 13
  • appearance yellowish-green mounds and tall trees bearing yellow tassel-like blossoms 1 chapter
    • Little mounds of yellowish green were away at the right, while on the left waved a group of tall leafy trees bearing yellow blossoms that looked like tassels and pompoms.
      The Road to Oz, ch. 13
  • reputation pleasant 1 chapter
    • Oz itself is a huge oblong country divided into four parts, the North being the purple Gilliken country, the East the blue Munchkin country, the South the red lands of the Quadlings, and the West the pleasant yellow country of the Winkies.
      Kabumpo in Oz, ch. 4

Where the books disagree

  • disputed which country lies east 3 chapters

    Baum puts the Munchkins in the east. Thompson agrees in Kabumpo in Oz (1922) and reverses herself five years later in The Gnome King of Oz (1927), where the Munchkins are western and the Winkies eastern. The compass of Oz is disputed not only between its two authors but within one of them. The same passages place the Winkies opposite the Munchkins throughout, so their country moves with it.

    • They are the people who live in this land of the East where the Wicked Witch ruled.
      L. Frank Baum · The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, ch. 2 · 1900
    • Oz itself is a huge oblong country divided into four parts, the North being the purple Gilliken country, the East the blue Munchkin country, the South the red lands of the Quadlings, and the West the pleasant yellow country of the Winkies.
      Ruth Plumly Thompson · Kabumpo in Oz, ch. 4 · 1922
    • There are four large countries in Oz; the yellow Winkie Land of the East, the purple Gillikin country of the North, the blue Munchkin country of the West and the red lands of the Quadlings in the South.
      Ruth Plumly Thompson · The Gnome King of Oz, ch. 2 · 1927

Appears in

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (7 of 24 chapters)
The Marvelous Land of Oz (5 of 24 chapters)
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (2 of 20 chapters)
The Road to Oz (4 of 24 chapters)
The Emerald City of Oz (7 of 30 chapters)
Little Wizard Stories of Oz (1 of 6 chapters)
The Patchwork Girl of Oz (6 of 28 chapters)
The Scarecrow of Oz (1 of 24 chapters)
The Lost Princess of Oz (6 of 26 chapters)
The Tin Woodman of Oz (3 of 24 chapters)
The Magic of Oz (2 of 23 chapters)
Glinda of Oz (3 of 24 chapters)
The Royal Book of Oz (5 of 24 chapters)
Kabumpo in Oz (8 of 22 chapters)
The Cowardly Lion of Oz (1 of 22 chapters)
Grampa in Oz (4 of 22 chapters)
The Lost King of Oz (3 of 21 chapters)
The Gnome King of Oz (6 of 20 chapters)
The Giant Horse of Oz (1 of 20 chapters)
Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz (1 of 21 chapters)
The Yellow Knight of Oz (2 of 20 chapters)

Mentioned in

The Tin Woodman of Oz (1 of 24 chapters)

Connections from others

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