World Map (1:33000000)(Chinese Edition)

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China Administrative Divisions: China has 23 provinces (including Taiwan*), 4 municipalities, 5 autonomous regions, and 2 Special Administrative Regions.

Yes, you read that correctly, within China it is commonly known that the map of China resembles the shape of a rooster. Simultaneous use of Chinese and Manchu languages. Frontier area were labeled in Manchu, while Chinese proper were labeled in Chinese. The downside of OSM is that local maps are displayed in the language of the country you’re in. So in China, all the streets are shown in Chinese characters.

Now after all that technical map talk we thought we’d end with a bit of fun! We’re going to have explore what is considered a well known fact within China, but is very much less well known elsewhere: China looks like a rooster (公鸡 gōngjī)! The turbulent period of political and social turmoil in China, known as the Cultural Revolution, from 1966 to 1976 resulted in the economic and educational decline, and millions of people were purged, persecuted or "politically murdered" depending on their political categories. Since then, the Chinese government has implemented a series of political and economic reforms that have significantly improved living standards and extended life expectancy in China since 1978, denouncing some of the earlier Maoist policies. Culture: China covers an area of about 9.6 million sq. km in East Asia. As observed on the physical map of China above, the country has a highly varied topography including plains, mountains, plateaus, deserts, etc. Geographical features were drawn based on the map reader's orientation, such that map readers can find their position in the shortest time possible.

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). And, with Apple’s Indoor Maps, you can get detailed directions inside major Chinese airports including Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. It’s pretty cool. Over history, many parts of Southern China remained independent of the influence of China Proper, having their own distinct histories, cultures, and languages. Southern China is warm and rainy enough for rice and consists of lush mountains cut by river valleys as its mentioned in the map of Southern China. Southern China is mountaineous, and people are divided by various southern dialects such as Cantonese, Min-language, Wu-language, where are mutually unintelligible with Mandarin language.It was made in 1602 and was designed by Jesuit priest, Matteo Ricci in collaboration with Mandarin Zhong Wentao and technical translator Li Zhizao. The map was created at the request of the Wanli Emperor. The Far East, the Middle East, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, the largest and most populous continent has many subregions. Asia counts 49 generally recognized sovereign states, all members of the United Nations, plus two states with a kind of limited, but substantial, international recognition, Taiwan (ROC), and Palestine (State of Palestine). 4.64 billion people live in Asia. The two most populous countries in the world are in Asia, China and India. Asia's largest country by area is Russia, Asian Russia occupies almost 30% of the entire continent.

There are 35 sovereign states in the Americas. Approximately 1 billion people live on the double continent. The self-governed island of Taiwan, which China claims as its own, also rejects the nine-dash line and Beijing’s South China Sea claims.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. From 1988 until 1998 this was the National Geographic Society recommended world map to be used. However, it is still used by many higher institutions today such as the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. Winkel Tripel Projection 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. Main sights of China: Great Wall of China, Forbidden City, Imperial Palace, The Summer Palace, Terracotta Army, Li River, The Three Gorges on the Yangtze River, Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, Xian City Wall, Leshan Giant Buddha, West Lake, Potala Palace, Victoria Harbour (Hong Kong), Shilin Stone Forest, Mogao Caves, Lijiang Old Town, Hanging Monastery of Hengshan, Longmen Grottoes, Pudong Skyline. To the southeast of the Northeast Plain is a series of detailed ranges comprising the Changbai, Zhangguangcai, and Wanda mountains, which in Chinese are collectively known as the Changbai Shan, or “Forever White Mountains”; broken by occasional open valleys, they reach elevations mostly between 1,500 and 3,000 feet (450 and 900 metres as you can see in the detailed map of China). In some parts the scenery is characterized by rugged peaks and precipitous cliffs.