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Kunyu Wanguo Quantu, printed by Matteo Ricci, Zhong Wentao and Li Zhizao, upon request of Wanli Emperor in Beijing, 1602. The 1602 Ricci map is a very large, 5 ft (1.52 m) high and 12 ft (3.66 m) wide, woodcut using a pseudocylindrical map projection showing China at the center of the known world. [2] It is the first map in Chinese to show the ...
[8] [9] The map includes China and other known countries and was presented to the emperor in 801. [8] The map was 9.1 m (30 ft) in length and 10 m (33 ft) in height, mapped out on a grid scale of one inch equaling one hundred li (Chinese unit of measuring distance). [10] The Yu Ji Tu, "Map of the Tracks of Yu", carved into stone in 1137 ...
Early world maps. The earliest known world maps date to classical antiquity, the oldest examples of the 6th to 5th centuries BCE still based on the flat Earth paradigm. World maps assuming a spherical Earth first appear in the Hellenistic period. The developments of Greek geography during this time, notably by Eratosthenes and Posidonius ...
West: Akto County, Xinjiang south-west of Ulugqat, on the China–Tajikistan border north of the Markansu River (瑪爾坎蘇河) [citation East: Fuyuan County, Heilongjiang , on the west bank of the Ussuri River 47°44′09″N 134°46′08″E / 47.73583°N 134.76889°E / 47.73583; 134.76889 ( Easternmost point of continental ...
Chinese exploration. Chinese exploration includes exploratory Chinese travels abroad, on land and by sea, from the travels of Han dynasty diplomat Zhang Qian into Central Asia during the 2nd century BC until the Ming dynasty treasure voyages of the 15th century that crossed the Indian Ocean and reached as far as East Africa.
The Silk Road[ a ] was a network of Eurasian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century. [ 1 ] Spanning over 6,400 km (4,000 mi), it played a central role in facilitating economic, cultural, political, and religious interactions between the Eastern and Western worlds. [ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ] The name "Silk Road" was ...
The People's Republic of China has an area of about 9,600,000 km 2 (3,700,000 sq mi). The exact land area is sometimes challenged by border disputes, most notably about Taiwan, Aksai Chin, the Trans-Karakoram Tract, and South Tibet. The area of the People's Republic of China is 9,596,960 km 2 (3,705,410 sq mi) according to the CIA's The World ...
Ancient Chinese states (traditional Chinese: 諸侯國; simplified Chinese: 诸侯国; pinyin: Zhūhóu guó) were dynastic polities of China within and without the Zhou cultural sphere prior to Qin's wars of unification. They ranged in size from large estates, to city-states to much vaster territories with multiple population centers.