Old Chinese Map Of The World

Ancient chinese map in this map of ancient china you can see how small it is compared to centuries ago. It uses the grid to define the scale and illustrates the coastline, major waterways including yellow and yangtze rivers, taihu, gongting and poyang lakes. The depiction of china itself is not the purpose of the map, and is copied from a standard printed map of the period.

Find a place browse the old maps. Published by the imperial japanese government railways. The second is the presence of shipping routes with compass bearings radiating from the port of quanzhou on the coast of fujian province to all the areas covered by the map, which charted the commercial world as no map, whether european or chinese, had done.

The second is the presence of shipping routes with compass bearings radiating from the port of quanzhou on the coast of fujian province to all the areas covered by the map, which charted the commercial world as no map, whether european or chinese, had done.

The map, created in 1602 by italian jesuit missionary matteo ricci, was the first. It is the earliest chinese grid map. It depicts the general form of the old world, placing china in the center and stretching northward to mongolia, southward to java, eastward to central japan, and westward to africa and europe. It is one of the oldest surviving world maps from east asia although the exact date of creation remains unknown.