It is important to know about zone flags when playing on a pvp server. When you enter a
new area, the zone name appears in color across the top of your screen. In addition, it is also listed
above your mini map.

The colors are coded to reflect the alliance of a zone. Uncontested zones that are controlled by your faction appear in green lettering. Enemy zones appear in red lettering and contested zones are in yellow lettering.

Uncontested zones are zones in which a faction has claimed and has complete
control. Contested zones are zones in which neither faction (alliance nor horde) is in complete control.

On a pvp server, when you enter a contested zone, you are immediately flagged for pvp. You are only flagged for pvp in an uncontested zone when it is controlled by the opposite faction.

Here is a list of contested and uncontested zones, by continent.

Azeroth

Alliance

• Elwynn Forest
• Dun Morogh
• Loch Modan
• Westfall

Horde

• Eversong Woods (available in the Burning Crusade expansion)
• Ghostlands (available in the Burning Crusade expansion)
• Silverpine Forest
• Tirisfal Glades

Contested

• Alterac Mountains
• Arathi Highlands
• Badlands
• Blasted Lands
• Burning Steppes
• Deadwind Pass
• Duskwood
• Eastern Plaguelands
• Hillsbrad Foothills
• Hinterlands
• Redridge Mountains
• Searing Gorge
• Stranglethorn Vale
• Swamp of Sorrows
• Western Plaguelands
• Wetlands

Kalimdor

Alliance

• Azuremyst Isle (available in the Burning Crusade)
• Bloodmyst Isle (available in the Burning Crusade)
• Darkshore
• Teldrassil

Horde

• The Barrens
• Durotar
• Mulgore

Contested

• Ashenvale
• Azshara
• Desolace
• Dustwallow Marsh
• Felwood
• Feralas
• Moonglade
• Silithus
• Stonetalon Mountains
• Tanaris
• Thousand Needles
• Un'goro Crater
• Winterspring

All of the Outlands is contested.

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