This is interesting but what would be more helpful is context about what contemporary audiences would have known and thought about these places. After all, Shakespeare undoubtedly had good reasons to choose these references.

> I thought this would be simple

Rationalising global location data across several hundred years based on extracting real-world references from complex and metaphor-laden text.

Every single part of that should trigger a 'definitely complicated' warning bell.

The first thing that I did was zoomed out, surely Shakespeare wrote about something in the New World?

No. It is amazing how small his world was. He was born and grew to adulthood, in the world where Spanish dominance kept England from attempting to explore the world. While Jamestown was settled before he died, he never wrote about it.

I've updated my understanding of how (un)aware people were in this era of the larger world. I have no idea why I would have ever expected otherwise.