World Map (1:33000000)(Chinese Edition)

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The national map is an annual production that could be released any time, and China knows well that its claims are contentious, even though they are not new.

China (officially, People’s Republic of China) is divided into 22 administrative provinces (sheng), 5 autonomous regions (zizhiqu), 4 municipalities (shi) and 2 special administrative regions. It seems significant, then, that Beijing chose to release the map on the heels of a late August meeting of the BRICS nations — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa -- and just before China is to participate in top-level meetings of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the Group of 20 rich and developing nations. There is an ancient Chinese legend called He Bo Xian Tu ( 河伯獻圖), which roughly means "the River Deity presenting a map". During the mythical Xia dynasty, a river deity gave Yu the Great a stone with a flood map etched on its surface. Yu the Great used the map to help him in taming the flood that threatened to destroy rural agriculture. The study of geography in China begins in the Warring States period (5th century BC). It expands its scope beyond the Chinese homeland with the growth of the Chinese Empire under the Han dynasty and enters a golden age with the Han dynasty invention of the compass as one of the Four Great Inventions. The compass was then used from the 11th century during the Song dynasty, Yuan dynasty, Ming dynasty, and Qing dynasty in the study of geography. One of the most famous explorers in Chinese history was the 15th century admiral Zheng He, known for the Chinese exploration of the Pacific and his treasure voyages. And there are nations that have their own territory and cultural identity but are part of a parent state entity, such as the American Indian nations of North America or the Uighurs in the autonomous region of Xinjiang, or Tibet; the former Tibetan Empire is now, not entirely voluntarily, an autonomous region of China.The map still has some distortion on the north and south poles, however it is seen as one of the most accurate maps to date. Today there are 195 recognized sovereign states on the planet, the two countries which are not members of the United Nations are Palestine and Vatican City (they are so-called observer states).

Note: Taiwan is self-governing; however, according to the CIA World Factbook, which we use as a geographic reference, China considers Taiwan its 23rd province.)

Nor, at approximately 85 nautical miles from Taiwan’s coast, does the tenth dash lie anywhere near any UNCLOS-recognized maritime boundary (UNCLOS recognizes only a 12-nm territorial sea, a further 12-nm contiguous zone for certain law enforcement purposes, and a 200-nm Exclusive Economic Zone). Sumatra is the second largest island in Indonesia. Moreover, Sumatra is 171 thousand square miles, which is equivalent to 443 thousand square kilometres. It is one of the most dangerous islands due to many natural occurrences such as tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanoes, and cyclones. The population of Sumatra is almost 50 million people. To plan a visit to Sumatra, go to audleytravel.com. Rossabi, Morris; Khubilai Khan: His life and times; University of California Press (1988) ISBN 0-520-05913-1, chap. 5 What, then, has the Chinese government done in response to the international outcry? It has essentially told everyone to calm down and view the map in an “ objective and rational way .” It has offered no substantive defense of any particular interpretation whatsoever. The aim, clearly, is to maintain a studied ambiguity and two-way plausible deniability.

Mandarin is the official language of China, but it has as many as 292 living languages, which are mostly spoken and belong to the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan family, the Tibeto-Burman branch, and other ethnic minority languages in southwest China. Altaic languages are spoken by people across northwestern and north-eastern China. There are various languages spoken in different areas of China. Geography: The hefty controversies surrounding who owns what in the South China Sea (南中国海 Nán Zhōngguó Hǎi) have an outsized influence on the appearance of modern Chinese maps. If the map you’re looking at is a made-in-China ‘real McCoy,’ it will undoubtedly include China’s marine claims to the South China Sea. There is still some inaccuracy with this map, however it’s viewed by many as being as close as you can get to an exact equal-area map. Since the passage in 2002 of the Surveying and Mapping Law of the People's Republic of China, it has been illegal for foreigners—as well as any unregistered entity—to privately gather GPS data in China.

WHAT IS CHINA CLAIMING?

Victor H Mair, ed. (29 April 2016). Imperial China and Its Southern Neighbours. ISBN 9789814620550. It provides China mapping data to both Google and Apple. So you know it’s a big player in the China map app space. The short answer is not really, both maps have heavy areas of distortion, it just the areas of distortion differ. The printable world map below can be printed easily on a piece of paper, and one can have it with themselves as a guide to learn more about where all the countries are in the world. The map common in classrooms throughout the West is known as the “ Mercator projection” and centers the world on Europe/Africa with Asia off to the east and North and South America over on the West.