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English: "The Kingdome of China", one of the first English-language maps of China. Note generally correct outline of the Ming China, with many provinces labeled (Cantam/Guangdong, Quancii/Guangxi, Chequiam/Zhejiang, Quicheu/Guizhou, Fuquam/en:Huguang/Huguang, Honao/Henan, Xanton/Shandong, Xiamxii and Sancii (Shanxi and Shaanxi?). "Xuntien alias Quinzay" more or less corresponds to Beijing (the name Shuntian Prefecture was indeed in use). However, north of China proper, John Speed had also placed "Cathaya, the Chief Kingdome of Great Cam", with the capital Cambalu (Khanbaliq - i.e., in fact, the same Beijing). This kind of duplication was common on the maps of the period, as geographers had not apparently yet fully identified Marco Polo's Cathay with the China then known to Europeans, and Cambalu with Beijing.
Date Originally published 1626, reprint 1627
Source
English: An antique map from the Special Collection "China in Maps" of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Library, reproduced by the HKUST Library in the book "China in European Maps", Hong Kong, 2003. ISBN 962-86403-9-9.
中文：一幅古代的地图从香港科技大学图书馆 ( 地圖中國 - 圖書館特藏展). 在书"China in European Maps", 香港, 2003. ISBN 962-86403-9-9.
Русский: Старинная карта из специальной коллекции Библиотеки Гонконгского научно-технического университета. Опубликована этой библиотекой в книге "China in European Maps" (Китай на европейских картах), Гонконг, 2003. ISBN 962-86403-9-9, тиражом 1000 экз. См. также каталог выставки, Special Collection "China in Maps".
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Author
John Speed  (–1629)  wikidata:Q1245028 s:en:Author:John Speed
 
John Speed
Description British cartographer and historian
Date of birth/death circa 1552
date QS:P,+1552-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
 29 July 1629
Location of birth/death Farndon Edit this at Wikidata London Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q1245028
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current12:38, 28 January 2010Thumbnail for version as of 12:38, 28 January 20102,024 × 1,640 (3.98 MB)Vmenkovbetter scan of same map, from http://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/22839/the_Kingdome_of_China_newly_augmented_by_IS_1626/Speed.html
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