>>720662818
Not only that, the Teraleaks revealed that the long speculated "South Kalos" was initially mapped out to be far more expansive than what we got, and all of it was basically shelved in order to go full steam ahead towards developing Gen 7 since having a game ready for Pokemon's big 20th was more important to the grand scheme of things.

>>715176673
From the Game Freak leak, there was proof that there's a whole southern section of the Kalos region was cut out. The whole map was supposed to resemble a 5 pointed star.
This aligned perfectly with a map of Kalos from the anime, too.