What is Pokémon Pokopia’s starting area called?

Withered Wasteland is the starting area of Pokémon Pokopia.

Ditto awakens in the Withered Wasteland, a damaged region that introduces the game’s central ideas. Players learn to gather materials, improve the environment, build structures, and help Pokémon establish a functioning community there.

The area’s name describes its initial condition: the land is dry, depleted, and affected by environmental disaster. Restoring it provides the first clear example of how Pokopia turns environmental repair into a game system rather than treating the setting as a fixed backdrop.

Withered Wasteland is sometimes confused with the later regions Bleak Beach, Rocky Ridges, or Sparkling Skylands. Those areas become available as the story and Trainer Rank progress. The starting region is the first place where Ditto and Professor Tangrowth begin investigating the abandoned world.