Map of the Hanseatic League Network

Spanning from England to Russia, the Hanseatic League united over a hundred towns—including Riga, London, Lübeck, Bergen, and Novgorod—into a vast commercial network. ● Black circles: Hanseatic towns ■ Black squares: kontors (trading posts). The League’s routes across the Baltic and North Seas fostered trade, urban growth, and political influence, with Riga linking East and West through exports of wax, hemp, and furs.