User blog comment:Xxkiiroxx/"Shingeki no Kyojin is Set in North America" Theory/@comment-179280-20141007183249

Hmm. Those are some really interesting points you brought up (I specially liked the point about the Cedar Waxwing). But there's enough evidence that the world in SnK simply takes inspiration from many places, so I doubt it can actually take place in any place we know. Besides, it's established in the covers of the japanese manga that the story takes place in a new continent.

I like drawing the following paralell: If SnK takes place in Europe or America, then A Song of Ice and Fire's Westeros is located somewhere in the UK. You know the latter is not, and I don't think the former actually takes place somewhere in the real world.

And to clarify: the story doesn't take place in the year 850 BC or AD. It's just a separate timeline from ours. You can't assume when it takes place, because we just don't know.