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Map of China
Ludovico Georgio and Hong Kong Maritime Museum Collection1584
Hong Kong Maritime Museum
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
"Chinae" is featured in Abraham Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first true modern atlas to be made. Many places in China were marked on this map. The landscape was shown as a rectangle and some coastlines were wrongly drawn. The four-wheeled wind vehicles in this map come from the imagination of the mapmaker.
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- Title: Map of China
- Creator: Ludovico Georgio, Hong Kong Maritime Museum Collection
- Date Created: 1584
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