General

• * The History of Cartography. Volume 2, Book 1: Cartography in Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies (J.B. Harley & David Woodward (eds), (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992) - fully searchable series of pdf chapters, made available online in June 2011) {July, 2011}
• * The History of Cartography. Volume 2, Book 2: Cartography in the Traditional East and Southeast Asian Societies (J.B. Harley & David Woodward (eds), (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994) - fully searchable series of pdf chapters, made available online in June 2011) {July, 2011}
• 'Asia in the eyes of Europe: Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries' (an extended introduction to an exhibition catalogue by Donald F. Lach, University of Chicago Library, 1991) {January, 2004}
• Asia. ‘Pics Or It Didn’t Happen! – Part I. Why digitize historical maps of Africa and Asia?’ (three blog posts by Claudia Berger on the opportunities and challenges of the digitization of historical maps, July/August 2021: with Part II. ‘About the Perthes Collection, Its History and Artefacts’ and Part III. ‘Digitizing Maps: Availability vs. Authenticity?’) {August, 2021}
• 'The Selden Map Rediscovered: A Chinese Map of East Asian Shipping Routes, c.1619' (by Robert Batchelor in Imago Mundi 65:1 (2013), 37-63 - winner of the sixth Imago Mundi Prize [NB. Click on 'About this journal', then 'Featured articles' for free viewing]) {April, 2015}

Central Asia

• Afghanistan. ‘18th century route map from Delhi to Kandahar’ (illustrated note by Ursula Sims-Williams for the British Library, Asian and African studies blog, 5 March 2013) {July, 2016}
• Afghanistan. 'Mapping Afghanistan' by Royce Wiles in Afghanistan research newsletter 13 (April 2007) pp.2-6, of the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU); follow the pdf link under ‘Latest Publications’ - notes on British, US and Soviet map series from 1936) {May, 2007}
• Aral Sea. Der Aralsee - Ein Gewässer im Wandel der Zeit (Manfred Spreafico) {November 2000}
• Caspian Sea. ‘Joindre des déserts aux déserts? La mer Caspienne vue de France au XVIII siècle’ (20-page footnoted article - Catherine Volpilhac-Auger) {April, 2005}
• Caspian Sea. Mare Hircanum, Bahr-i Hazar, Gulzum Denghiz, Bahrgilan and Kaspiskoye More: the Caspian Sea on historical maps (an illustrated essay by Yasemin Nemlioglu Koca) {February, 2022}
• Mongolia. 'Mongolische Landkarten' (182 (manuscript ?) maps, from the early 20th century, collected by Hermann Consten - Ostasienabteilung der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin; see also for background, 'German Mongolist’s work attracts growing interest', Mongolian Views, 4 December 2010) {December, 2010}
• Mongolia. ‘Old Mongolian Manuscript Maps’ (16 maps, 1803-1936, enlargeable to high res., from the state archives of Mongolia; they are listed here, and (an unusual feature) provided with a list of every name and inscription, which is indexed via an overlaid grid; you can also search for features such as temple, relay station, watch-post - Akira Kamimura (Tokyo)) {March, 2007}

East Asia

• * The History of Cartography. Volume 2, Book 2: Cartography in the Traditional East and Southeast Asian Societies (J.B. Harley & David Woodward (eds), (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994) - fully searchable series of pdf chapters, made available online in June 2011) {July, 2011}
• East Asia. ‘Gaihozu: Japanese Imperial maps’ (a ‘large collection’ ranging from the later 19th century to the end of WWII, these gaihozu, or "maps of outer lands, cover Japan, China, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, the Philippines, and beyond; ‘the Library is in the process of scanning and making available all of the maps in the collection’ - Stanford University Libraries) {June, 2021}
• East Asia. 'Map Chats' ('A new digital platform for cartographic discussion focused on maps in the MacLean Collection written by visiting scholars participating in the MacLean Collection Map Fellowship program', featuring subjects mostly drawn from China, Japan and Korea) {August, 2024}

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• Translate the following webpages, free, to/from Chinese via Babelfish [it will be a poor translation but it will do it immediately]
• China. Antique Maps Database (a catalogue, searchable by title, mapmaker or geographic region - Hong Kong University of Science & Technology) {September, 2002}
• + China. 'Canal Is Formed When Water Comes: Qing Archival and Cartographical Materials on River Engineering' (illustrated online exhibition in the National Palace Museum, Taipei) {May, 2012}
• China. ‘Charting Chinese History with 17th-Century Jesuit World Maps’ (commentary relating to the ‘China at the Center’ exhibition at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, by Rebecca Cheong, for Hyperallergic, 2 May 2016) {May, 2016}
• China. ‘The China Maps of Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville: Origins and Supporting Networks’ (by Mario Cams in Imago Mundi 66:1 (2014): 51-69) {August, 2017}
• China. 'The Chinese inventor of bi-hemispherical world map' (illustrated pdf article by Liu Gang, in: e-Perimetron, 2:3 (Summer 2007), pp. 185-93) {February, 2008}
• China. 'Cosmologies and Colors: An Interview with Richard Pegg about Heaven and Earth' (in connection with an exhibition opening in May 2024 at the Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library, 'Heaven and Earth: The Blue Maps of China') {February, 2024}
• + China. Early Maps of China & Japan (exhibition at the Yale Map Collection, 1997, from the Dr. Jonathan T. Lanman collection - a few images) {November 2000}
• China. ‘The First Map of China Printed in Europe [Ortelius 1584] Reconsidered: Confusions of its Authorship and the Influence of the Chinese Cartography’ (by Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann, 2018) {July, 2018}
• China. ' A History of a Spatial Relationship: Kunlun Mountain and the Yellow River Source from Chinese Cosmography through to Western Cartography' (Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann, in Circumscribere (International Journal for the History of Science), 11 (2012), 1-31) {June, 2012}
• China. 'Herold J. Wiens Collection' (264 "pen and ink drawings, pencil sketches, facsimiles, and photographs of aerial views showing all or part of China during the period of World War II. The collection also consists of technical drawing equipment, notes, charts, atlases, some books, personal folders, letters, correspondence, and other miscellaneous items", 1941-c.1979 - Library of Congress) . [Also here] {July, 2007}
• + China. 'How Rome Went to China' [part of the Library of Congress's Vatican Exhibition] {October 2000}
• China. ‘A Jesuit Atlas of Asia in Eighteenth-Century China’ (an illustrated note about an unrecognised revision of the Yongzheng Atlas, by Xue Zhang for the British Library Asian and African studies blog, 7 April 2019) {May, 2019}
• China. Jingban tianwen quantu (about a Chinese world map of c.1780-90 - by Richard J. Smith, Rice University, with an enlargeable image of the map; reissued by Kunstpedia September 2009)) {May, 2001; updated September 2009}
• China. 'The Kangxi atlas in the King’s Topographical Collection' (the work of French Jesuits, engraved in 1719 and presented to George I in 1724 - British Library, 'Maps and Views Blog', 20 July 2015) {July, 2015}
• China. ‘Lectures: China in Maps’ (unillustrated talks: Zhang Longxi ‘Maps, Poems, and the Power of Representation’; Roderick M. Barron ‘China in Maps: Columbus to Kangxi’; Fung Kam Wing ‘A Documentary Journey From al-Farghani and al-Battani to Christoph Clavius and Matteo Ricci (from the 9th to 17th Centuries)’ - Colloquium on Information Science: HKUST Library Series no. 6 - 6 June 2002) {April, 2005}
• China. 'Mapping "All under Heaven": Jesuit cartography in China' (Daniel Kane - Mercator's World 4:4, 1999)
• China. 'Mapping China's World: Cultural Cartography in Late Imperial Times' (Richard J. Smith, Rice University, 1996; reissued by Kunstpedia September 2009) {July, 2003; updated September 2009}
• + 'China in Maps: 16th-19th Century' [exhibition at the Special Collection of the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Library, 1997] {October 2000}
• China. 'Martino Martini' (Martino Martini Center) {March 2017}
• China. 'Martini en zijn Novus Atlas Sinensis (1656)' (a lecture by Noël Golvers about Martino Martini and his atlas of China - April 2008) {February, 2011}
• China. ‘A New Digital Comparison of the Chinese World Maps of Giulio Aleni and Matteo Ricci’ (illustrated article by C. Dong Yu, et al., in: e-Perimetron, 15:3 (2020), pp. 130-8) {December, 2020}
• China. ‘Not Just a Jesuit Atlas of China: Qing Imperial Cartography and Its European Connections’ (Imago Mundi 69:2 (2017): 188-201 – by Mario Cams, winner of the eighth Imago Mundi Prize) {June 2019}
• China. 'Reading instructions for an early printed map of the Chinese Empire: a digital reconstruction' (a slide show reconstructing the instructions embedded in the supplemental notes to the survey map published in the earliest extant printed atlas of the Chinese Empire (ca. 1130), by Hilde De Weerdt, 2009 for Oxford University Research Archive [unpublished]) {February, 2012}
• China. Recent progress in the study of early Chinese maps: a report by Dr Wang Jun {April, 2001}
• < http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/arts/design/20map.html?pagewanted=all > China. Ricci. 'A Big Map That Shrank the World' (a discussion by Edward Rothstein for the New York Times (19 January 2010) of the 1602 Matteo Ricci world map then on exhibit in the Library of Congress; see also the thread on MapHist, 'NY Times review of Matteo Ricci at Library of Congress' for useful bibliographical references) {February, 2010}
• China. 'The Rise and Fall of 15th Century Chinese Seapower' (by Michael L. Bosworth, 1999) {March, 2002}
• China. 'The Selden Map Rediscovered: A Chinese Map of East Asian Shipping Routes, c.1619' (by Robert Batchelor in Imago Mundi 65:1 (2013), 37-63 - winner of the sixth Imago Mundi Prize [NB. Click on 'About this journal', then 'Featured articles' for free viewing]) {April, 2015}
• China. 'The Selden Map' (a bibliographical round-up from The Map Room, 25 January 2016) {January, 2016}
• China. Selden Map. ‘The origins of the Selden map of China: scientific analysis of the painting materials and techniques using a holistic approach’ (by Sotiria Kogou, et al., Heritage Science, 2 September 2016, discussing multispectral imaging techniques) {October, 2016}
• China. 'The Selden Map of China' (the official website compiled by Robert Batchelor and David Helliwell) {September, 2014}
• China. 'John Selden’s Map of East Asia (The Selden Map of China)' (a personal note by Robert Batchelor, January 2014, with useful links) {September, 2014}
• China. 'The Selden Map of China' (by Robert Batchelor and David Helliwell about the map left to the Bodleian Library, Oxford in 1659 and recently shown to include 'very faint lines indicating trade routes and compass bearings from the port of Quanzhou to all parts of East Asia and beyond' - the site is to include essays). [See also a short video] {July, 2011; amended July 2013}
• China. Selden Map. ‘Scientists unlock secrets of oldest surviving global trade map’ (Phys Org News, 3 February 2017). Another version Here {February, 2017}
• China. 'Who were the Manchu mapmakers?' (by Mario Cams, on the Manchu Studies Group blog, 24 June 2014) {August, 2014}

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• Translate the following webpages, free, to/from Japanese via Yahoo! Babelfish [it will be a poor translation but it will do it immediately]
• Japan. '1710 Nansenbushu Map of the World' (a description, linked to further comments and an enlargeable image - Kevin Brown, Geographicus blog, 1 March 2010) {March, 2010}
• Japan. 'Artwork in Publicly Illustrated Maps in Japan as a Medium for Cultural Insights' (a large pdf file: by Simon Potter, in: Studies in Media and Culture (Nagoya: Graduate School of Languages and Cultures, Nagoya University), March 2007, 3, pp. 57-72 - see 'Japanese art history in regard to cartography (pp.58-60)) {April, 2008}
• Japan. Ashida Antique Map Collection (listing and descriptions of 1,400 maps, from the Edo to early Showa periods, with selected images - Meiji University) {May, 2004}
• Japan. ‘Beyond technology: Japanese colonial mapping of water estates in Taiwan from 1901 to 1921’ (Chia-Jung Wu & Jinn-Guey Lay, in the International Journal of Cartography, 1:1 (2015)) {January, 2017}
• Japan. 'Changing in the Name of the "Japan Sea" ' (a 16-page pdf article, translated from Japanese, by Takehide Hishiyama and Masatoshi Nagaoka, 1994, putting the Japanese case for the 'Sea of Japan' rather than 'Sea of Korea' or 'East Sea', with an extensive list of map examples from 1511) {April, 2006}
• Japan. 'Digital Libraries in Japan with content in western languages' (Klaus Graf on Archivalia 1 January 2008) {December, 2007}
• Japan. ‘Divergent Meanings of Place in Mapping Japan: La Pérouse’s Tangential Encounter’ (‘When a French captain sailed past Japan in the late eighteenth century, a guess about toponyms set off a century of cartographic confusions’ - Radu Leca for the Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library, 30 July 2023) {August, 2023}
• Japan. 'Engelbert Kaempfer: The History of Japan, London 1727' (translation of the Introduction by Wolfgang Michel, Kyushu University) {May, 2003}
• Japan. 'Floor exhibition of Inoh's map, the oldest scientifically surveyed map in Japan' (a paper about Inoh Tadataka (1745-1818) by Y. Hoshino, et al. at the 25th International Cartographic Conference, Paris, 3–8 July 2011) {July, 2011}
• Japan. ‘Gaihozu: Japanese Imperial maps’ (a ‘large collection’ ranging from the later 19th century to the end of WWII, these gaihozu, or "maps of outer lands, cover Japan, China, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, the Philippines, and beyond; ‘the Library is in the process of scanning and making available all of the maps in the collection’ - Stanford University Libraries) {June, 2021}
• Japan. George Beans Collection of Japanese Maps of the Tokugawa Period (University of British Columbia)
• Japan. ‘A Japanese Map of the World: Bankoku Zenzu)’ (by Elke Papelitzky) {July, 2022}
• Japan. ’Japanese Maps’ (a selection, enlargeable to high res., with their catalogue descriptions, from the roughly 60 items, dating to the Tokugawa or Edo period (1603-1868) in the Japanese Maps Collection of the John Rylands Library, University of Manchester) {March, 2021}
• Japan - Kyoto. ‘Unique Perspectives on Kyoto’ (an illustrated article by Richard Pegg, for the Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Llibrary) {May, 2021}
• Japan – Kyoto. ‘WebGIS-based application for comparing folding screens of Rakuchu rakugai-zu (Scenes in and around Kyoto) with maps’ (illustrated article by Keiji Yano, et al., in: e-Perimetron, 12:3 (2017), pp. 119-31) {October, 2017}
• Japan. 'Mamiya Rinzô and the Japanese Exploration of Sakhalin Island: Cartography and Empire' (a pdf article by Brett L. Walker, Journal of Historical Geography 33 (2007) 283-313 - available via Japan Focus: an Asia Pacific e-journal ) {February, 2008}
• Japan. ‘Mapping a Nation: Japan’s Most Famous Cartographer, Ino Tadataka’ (an illustrated note by Hoshino Yoshihisa, 30 January 2020) {January, 2020}
• Japan. [Maps from the Ashida Collection, Meiji University] (select the 2nd, 3rd and 4th bullets for carto-bibliographies - all in Japanese) {April, 2002}
• Japan. 'Modernization efforts of Japan Meiji restoration government and French contribution to Japanese topographic mapping in 1870s' (a paper by S. Hosoi at the 25th International Cartographic Conference, Paris, 3–8 July 2011) {July, 2011}
• Japan. 'Old Map Room' (a large collection of images and information relating to research into land-use change and Japanese cartography (in Japanese)) {November, 2005}
• Japan. Online catalogue of the National Diet Library's map collection (over 440,000 maps of Japan and other countries, mostly from the late 19th century onwards, searchable by title, author, publisher, date, etc.; the search interface is in Japanese and English (though the majority of maps are catalogued in Japanese) {August, 2005}
• Japan. 'On the artistic heritage of Japanese cartography: historical perceptions of maps and space' (pdf article by Simon Potter, in: Studies in Language and Culture (Nagoya: Graduate School of Languages and Cultures, Nagoya University), 2007, 28(2), pp.209-225 - see 'Japanese cartography past as art' (pp.213-20)) {April, 2008}
• Japan. Pearl Harbor. ‘Through the Enemy’s Eyes: Japan’s Map of the Attack on Pearl Harbor’ (an analytic article by Ryan Moore about the damage assessment map drawn by Mitsuo Fuchida - Library of Congress Story Map) {August, 2021}
• Japan. 'Polyvocal Portolans: Nautical Charts and Hybrid Maritime Cultures In Early Modern East Asia' (pdf article by Peter D. Shapinsky in: Early Modern Japan: An Interdiscipinary Journal, 14 (2006), pp. 4-26) {December, 2006}
• Japan. 'Reading a Japanese Map' (explaining the cartographic symbols/signs on a printed Japanese map, from the U.S. War Department's Tactical and Technical Trends, 47 (June 1, 1944) {December, 2009}
• Japan. ‘The Road to Kyoto‘ (a note, with enlargeable illustrations, about the road between Edo [Tokyo] and Kyoto, the Tokaido bunken-ezu, .by Cynthia Smith for the Library of Congress Map blog, 13 July 2022) {July, 2022}
• Japan. ‘Secret Japanese Military Maps Could Open a New Window on Asia's Past’ (‘The recovered maps provided valuable intelligence for the United States after World War II’ – an illustrated note by Greg Miller, National Geographic, 1 August 2016) {July, 2016}
• Japan. Sekisui Nagakubo (1717-1801 (including ‘Sekisui and his work as a geographer’ - Memorial Society of Nagakubo Sekisui) {January, 2020}
• Japan. 'Silence Without Secrecy? What is Left Unsaid in Early Modern Japanese Maps' (pdf article by Marcia Yonemoto in: Early Modern Japan: An Interdiscipinary Journal, 14 (2006), pp. 27-39) {December, 2006}
• Japan. 'Studying Urban Geography Using Historical Maps on the Web' (by Hiroo Kamiya (in Japanese): an illustrated project, identifying change in land-use over time through historical maps; see the brief abstract in English - Kanazawa University) {November, 2005}
• Japan. Surveying. 'Japanese mathematics in the Edo Period' (see the sitemap for two sections on Japanese survey methods - National Diet Library, Tokyo) {April, 2012}
• + Japan. ’Traditional Japanese Cartography of the Edo Period‘ (online exhibition, Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine) {November, 2017}
• Japan. ‘Travels in Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868) : a Virtual Journey’ (an online exhibition showcasing 87 of the maps from the Japanese Maps Portal in Manchester Digital Collections - University of Manchester, John Rylands Research Institute and Library) {October, 2021}
• Japan. 'Visual resources for Japan' ([select 'format' - 'maps']; notes in English about various sites showing early maps of Japan, some with indexes and bibliographies - Duke University Libraries) . [Also an older version Online Maps - Historical]
The sites described include the following, most of whose text is in Japanese:
• Ashida Map Collection (Meiji University)
• Dai Nihon enkai yochi zenzu (Complete Survey of the Japanese Coast) (by Ino Tadataka - National Diet Library)
• Edo Streets Digital Exhibition (University of Tokyo)

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• Korea (a YouTube video of John Rennie Short talking about his book, Korea: A Cartographic History, an exploration of 600 years of Korean maps) {December, 2012}
• Korea. 'Account of a voyage of discovery to the west coast of Corea' (full text of Account of a voyage of discovery to the west coast of Corea, and the great Loo-Choo island; with an appendix, containing charts, and various hydrographical and scientific notices. By Captain Basil Hall...And a vocabulary of the Loo-Choo languages, by H. J. Clifford (London, 1818) - requires the free DjVu plugin - University of Georgia Libraries, Hargrett Library) {February, 2004}
• Korea. 'Changing in the Name of the "Japan Sea" ' (a 16-page pdf article, translated from Japanese, by Takehide Hishiyama and Masatoshi Nagaoka, 1994, putting the Japanese case for the 'Sea of Japan' rather than 'Sea of Korea' or 'East Sea', with an extensive list of map examples from 1511) {April, 2006}
• Korea. Hendrick Hamel (1653-1666), the explorer of Korea (Henny Savenije) {July, 2002}
• Korea. 'The Inscrutable Father of Korean Cartography: Kim Chong-ho and his maps' (Daniel Kane - Mercator's World 8:1, 2003) {February, 2003}
• Korea. 'Kyujangkak Map Collection List' (entirely in Korean; leading to the List of 108 entries, which may have images - University of Southern California) {February, 2012}
• 'Korean Maps of the 19th Century: The Korean National Treasure Daedong yeojido at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee' (look under Nov 20, 2009 for the podcast of the day's proceedings) {December, 2009}
• Korea. ‘The mysterious island of Korea’ (illustrated note by Eliane Dotson, Old World Auctions Newsletter, January 2017) {January, 2017}
• Korea through western cartographic eyes (Henny Savenije)
• Korea. 'A Unique 18th-Century Korean Map' ('As far as this author can determine, the anonymous mapmaker’s map of Korea is the only example from the Choson dynasty on which notes and district names appear only in Hangul' - by Gari Keith Ledyard, June 2013) {July, 2013}
• North Korea. ‘Seoul to digitize historic maps of N. Korea for use in infrastructure, land policy’ (‘The South Korean government plans to digitize thousands of historic cadastral maps of the North for use in infrastructure and the establishment and operation of “efficient” land policy following unification’; one example is illustrated - NK News.org, 9 July 2018) {July, 2018}
• Russia - see under Europe, which may include Asiatic Russia
• Taiwan. ‘Beyond technology: Japanese colonial mapping of water estates in Taiwan from 1901 to 1921’ (Chia-Jung Wu & Jinn-Guey Lay, in the International Journal of Cartography, 1:1 (2015)) {January, 2017}
• + Taiwan. 'Canal Is Formed When Water Comes: Qing Archival and Cartographical Materials on River Engineering' (illustrated online exhibition in the National Palace Museum, Taipei) {May, 2012}
• Taiwan. 'A critical analysis of Tan-Hsin Archives maps' (a paper about the period 1776-1895 by Y.N. Huang at the 25th International Cartographic Conference, Paris, 3–8 July 2011) {July, 2011}
• Taiwan. 'Mapping Taipei: Representation and Ideology, 1626-1945' (pdf file: by Joseph Allen, in: Studies on Asia, Series III, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Fall 2005), pp.59-80) {February, 2006}
• Tibet. ‘Decoding Mid-19th Century Maps of the Border Area between Western Tibet, Ladakh, and Spiti’ (an illustrated 23-page article by Diana Lange) {May, 2018}
• Tibet. 'Tibet Maps Bibliography' (International Campaign for Tibet) {December, 2008}
• Tibet. The Wise Collection: Acquiring Knowledge on Tibet in the late 1850s’ (with 111 enlargeable illustrations; a note by Diana Lange for the British Library, Asian and African studies blog, 18 July 2016) {July, 2016}
• Tibet. ‘Wise words: World-leading Tibetology map expert gives talk on ‘Tibet Collection’ of 19th Century Dundee-raised doctor’ (Diana Lange talking to Michael Alexander about Dr Thomas Wise’s collection of Tibet maps in the British Library – The Courier, 18 April 2019) {May, 2019}
• Vietman. ‘U.S. Military Maps of Hue, Vietnam’ (illustrated note by Ryan Moore, Library of Congress Maps blog, 23 March 2018) {March, 2018}

Indian Ocean

• Indian Ocean. 'The Indian Ocean and Global Trade' (a series of illustrated articles by Paul Lunde, covering the period 750-1500, and describing the Indian Ocean trading network with particular reference to the Muslim world - Saudi Aramco World 56:4 (July/August 2005) {September, 2005}
• Indian Ocean. 'The secret of eternal life: a recycled Dutch East India Company chart' (analysis of a fragment from a (probably 17th century) chart of the Indian Ocean - University Library Utrecht) {July, 2012}
• Seychelles. 'Seychelles Old Map' (zoomable image, with discussion, of 'Map of the Island of Mahé Seychelles. Made in accordance with Ordinance No7 of 1898. Based on survey by Commander Balfour HMS Stork 1890 and showing the principal landed properties as compiled from various plans and other sources and laid down by Traverse of roads and paths, by S.B. Hobbs, Island surveyor 27th Sept 1900') {June, 2015}

South Asia

• * The History of Cartography. Volume 2, Book 1: Cartography in Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies (J.B. Harley & David Woodward (eds), (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992) - fully searchable series of pdf chapters, made available online in June 2011) {July, 2011}
• ‘The Spies Who Mapped Great Swathes of South Asia by Foot’ (‘using secret tools, and under cover of night, Indian “pundits” charted land for the British’; Eleanor Cummins, 17 April 2017) {April, 2017}
• Ceylon. 'Maps and Plans of Dutch Ceylon: a Representative Collection of Cartography from the Dutch Period' (search for the title of this 3-page review article, by Chandra Jayasuriya, of the book by K.D. Paranavitana & R.K. de Silva (Colombo, Central Cultural Fund & Sri Lanka-Netherlands Association, 2002) , in The Globe (January 2003) - via Find Articles, part of the BNET Business Library) {December, 2008}
• Ceylon. 'The Portuguese Quest for Taprobane' (Ananda Abeydeera in Mapline no. 93 Summer 2001) {February, 2003}
• India. ‘18th century route map from Delhi to Kandahar’ (illustrated note by Ursula Sims-Williams for the British Library, Asian and African studies blog, 5 March 2013) {July, 2016}
• India. 'The 1947 Partition: Drawing the Indo-Pakistani Boundary' (Lucy Chester in American Diplomacy 7:1 (February 2002)) {September, 2003}
• India. ‘A catalogue of manuscript and printed reports, field books, memoirs, maps, etc., of the Indian Surveys, deposited in the map room of the India office’ (‘The India Office map catalogue of 1878, now released online for the first time on the British Library Shared Research Repository, is a valuable finding aid to one of the world's most complex and mercurial map collections’; for an explanatory note, see Released online: The 1878 India Office map collection catalogue, by Tom Harper for the British Library Maps & Views blog, 9 December 2021) {December, 2021}
• India. ‘From frontier to boundary: What the Anglo-Gorkha War of 1814-16 can tell us about contemporary border issues’ (Bernardo Michael for Himal South Asian, 26 August 2020) {August, 2020}
• India. ‘Sir George Everest and his Trigonometric Survey of India’ (Harold Sack on the SciHi Blog, 4 July 2017) {August, 2021}
• India. 'Sir George Everest and Survey of India' (by Mary M. Root in Backsights) {March, 2006}
• +India. 'Maps and Map-making in India' (online exhibition at the Clark Library, curated by Lisa Lorenzo and Corinne Vieracker, 2014, with enlargeable illustrations - Stephen S. Clark Library, University of Michigan) {August, 2014}
• India. ‘A Mathematical Method for Visualizing Ptolemy’s India in Modern GIS Tools’ (illustrated article by Corey Abshire, et al., in: e- Perimetron, 11:1 (2016), pp. 13-34) {June, 2016}
• India (a series of articles, several comprising historical urban studies relating to the Islamic world in, e.g. N. Africa, Spain and India, in: Attilio Petruccioli (ed.) 'Urban Morphogenesis: Maps and Cadastral Plans'. Environmental Design: Journal of the Islamic Environmental Design Research Centre 1-2 (1993) - ArchNet Digital Library) {December, 2008}
• India – Delhi. ‘Six Delhi maps chart the city’s evolution from 1807 to 2021’ (extracts from Pilar Maria Guerrieri’s, Maps of Delhi) {June, 2017}
• India - Vizagapatam. ‘Rewind the clock with these historical maps of Vizag’ (John Castellas for Yo! Vizag magazine) {September, 2022}
• Nepal. ‘The First Map of Nepal: A covert British invasion plan that never materialised’ (Sanyukta Shrestha in the Kathmandu Post, 30 December 2017) {December, 2017}
• Nepal. ‘From frontier to boundary: What the Anglo-Gorkha War of 1814-16 can tell us about contemporary border issues’ (Bernardo Michael for Himal South Asian, 26 August 2020) {August, 2020}
• Pakistan. 'The 1947 Partition: Drawing the Indo-Pakistani Boundary' (Lucy Chester in American Diplomacy 7:1 (February 2002)) {September, 2003}
• Pakistan - Sindh (the personal website of Muhammad Hussain Panhwar [deceased 2007] contains pdf versions of a number of his articles and lists on the history of cartography of the region - search for ‘map’) {April, 2007}

Southeast Asia

• * The History of Cartography. Volume 2, Book 2: Cartography in the Traditional East and Southeast Asian Societies (J.B. Harley & David Woodward (eds), (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994) - fully searchable series of pdf chapters, made available online in June 2011) {July, 2011}
• Burma (a blog post about three very large maps of parts of Burma painted on cloth by Burmese artists c.1860; for the images see here – Cambridge University Library, 18 April 2017) {April, 2017}
• Dutch East Indies. 'The cartographic representation of the Netherlands East and West Indies on Dutch school wall maps' (an online article by Dr.ir. Lowie Brink of the antiquariat, De wereld aan de wand, Nijmegen, January 2010 - Kunstpedia) {July, 2010}
• Dutch East Indies. 'The Napoleonic War in the Dutch East Indies: An Essay and Cartobibliography of the Minto Collection' (a 28-page illustrated essay by John A. Wolter, Philip Lee Phillips Map Society Publication No.2, 1999) {November, 2015}
• Dutch East Indies. 'De Schoolkaart van Insulinde van R. Schuiling: Een overzicht van de Indische kartografie in 1898 op vijf m²' (an online article by Dr.ir. Lowie Brink of the antiquariat, De wereld aan de wand, Nijmegen, January 2010 - Kunstpedia) {July, 2010}
• East Indies. 'Atlas Mutual Heritage' ('a data-bank [in English] providing a systematic survey of VOC [Dutch East India Company] trading posts and settlements and illustrative material of these locations') {March, 2001}
• East Indies. 'The cartographic representation of the Netherlands East and West Indies on Dutch school wall maps' (16- page illustrated pdf article by Lowie Brink - International Symposium on "Old Worlds-New Worlds": The History of Colonial Cartography 1750-1950, Utrecht, 21-23 August 2006 (Working Group on the History of Colonial Cartography in the 19th and 20th Centuries, International Cartographic Association)) {March, 2008}
• East Indies (commentary on the ‘Nova Tabula Insularum Iavae, Sumatrae, Borneonis et aliarum Mallacam’, isued in 1598 by Theodor de Bry - Map House, London, blog, 7 April 2016) {May, 2016}
• East Indies. Dutch East India Company. 'VOC Maps and Drawings' (an essay in seven sections, dealing with the making of the maps, their management (in The Netherlands and elsewhere), and the Hulst van Keulen archives - C.J. Zandvliet, for Towards a New Age of Partnership [TANAP]) {December, 2003}
• East Indies. 'School atlases for a colonial society: The Van Gelder/Lekkerkerker school atlases for the Netherlands East Indies 1880-1952' (10-page illustrated pdf article by Ferjan Ormeling - International Symposium on "Old Worlds-New Worlds": The History of Colonial Cartography 1750-1950, Utrecht, 21-23 August 2006 (Working Group on the History of Colonial Cartography in the 19th and 20th Centuries, International Cartographic Association)) {March, 2008}
• Java. 'Martin Llewellyn's Atlas of the East (c. 1598)' (text of an unpublished 1975 conference paper, by Tony Campbell, concentrating on the toponymy of Java) {May, 2006}
• + Moluccas. 'Strait Through: Magellan to Cook & the Pacific' (a well-illustrated online exhibition [shown to the public July 2010-January 2011), with sections on the Strait of Magellan, Pacific Ocean, Spice Islands (Moluccas) and ten Explorers, covering the period 1520s to 1770s - curated by John Delaney, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library) {July, 2010}
• New Guinea - see under Australia, etc.
• Philippines. 'The Luso-Hispanic world in maps' (descriptions of 26 maps, mostly MS and 18th century - Library of Congress) {November, 2007}
• Philippines. 'A rare map from Mindanao' (an illustrated note by Annabel Teh Gallop on the British Library 'Asian and African studies blog', 12 June 2014, about the map in Thomas Forrest's A voyage to New Guinea and the Moluccas 1774-1776 (1780)) {January, 2015}
• Philippines. 'The World of 1898: the Spanish-American War' (clicking on 'Maps' leads to selections for Cuba, the Philippines and Puerto Rico, which in turn lead to map descriptions and images from the Library of Congress 'American Memory Collection') {January, 2004}
• Southeast Asia. 'Census, Map, Museum' [wide-ranging, with particular reference to Southeast Asia] (Benedict Anderson - excerpts from Imagined Communities , 1991)
• Sumatra. '1821 Manuscript Map of the Pepper Ports of Western Sumatra by a known East India Pilot' (a well-researched, illustrated note making the claim that this is the original manuscript by Capt. Samuel Ashmore of the chart published the following year by James Horsburgh - Kevin Brown on the Geographicus Map Blog, 5 October 2012) {October, 2012}
• < http://ezinearticles.com/?Antique-Siamese-Maps-New-Discoveries-of-Old-Treasures&id=143082 > Thailand. 'Antique Siamese Maps: New Discoveries of Old Treasures' (about the 17 antique Siamese maps discovered in the Grand Palace in Bangkok in 1995, by Eric Lim, 23 December 2006; see also 'Old Bangkok maps: the city 70 years on') {December, 2006}
• Thailand. 'History of Ayutthaya - Old Cartography' (including an illustrated essay 'Mapping Iudea: a Cartographic Exercise' and map images - the site's authors are named on the 'About us' page) {October, 2012}
• Thailand. 'Mapping Siam's history' (a brief unsigned note about the country's official mapping from the 1870s, from the Bangkok Post, 26 September 2013) {September, 2013}
• Thailand. 'The mapping of Thailand: an introduction' (an illustrated lecture, with tables and bibliography, given by Dawn Rooney to the International Map Collectors’ Society in 1991) {September, 2008}

Southwest Asia

• 'Space, Representation and Use / Espace, représentations et usages' ['Cartomed' of which 'CartoMundi' forms a part] (an expanding site, offering 'notices and graphic indexes on maps and plans of Mediterranean countries and towns' (mostly from the 20th century); select (at top) 'Tools' - 'Map notices'; currently covering Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, and the former Yugoslavia countries, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt, with Syria, Lebanon, Morocco and the Balkans to follow; in French and English - Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l'homme, Aix-en- Provence) [See also Jean-Luc Arnaud, 'A New Website for Cartographic Resources - CartoMundi', Liber Quarterly 18, 2 (2008)]. For a full geographical list (October 2017) see Here. {September, 2006; amended October 2008 & October 2009}
• Mesopotamia. ‘Cartographic material in India Office Reports’ (a guide for the region - by Magdalena Peszko, British Library) {April, 2018}
• Middle East. ‘Oil maps of the Middle East’ (‘the role maps have played in oil exploration in the Middle East from the West’s early work in the region at the beginning of the 20th century until today’; notes on five zoomable maps, by Mark Hobbs, for British Library ‘Maps’ articles, February 2017) {February, 2017}

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• Arabia. ‘Enhanced Mathematical Method for Visualizing Ptolemy’s Arabia’ (illustrated article by Corey Abshire, et al., in: e-Perimetron, 15:1 (2020), pp. 1-25) {May, 2020}
• Arabia. 'Mapping Arabia' (by James Parry, based on the Bukhari Collection, with an accompanying 'slide show' of 17 maps) {March, 2004}
• Arabia. ‘A Passage to ´Aqaba: A Geographical Enquiry’ (tracing the expedition of T. E. Lawrence from Wajh to ´Aqaba as described in Seven Pillars of Wisdom and correcting the erroneous depictions of his route on all published maps - by TASUMI Tsuneo and YAGITANI Ryoko) {April, 2007}
• Arabia. 'The road to Ubar' [on the early mapping of Arabia] (Nicholas Clapp - Mercator's World 3:5, 1998)
• Armenia. ‘History of Armenian Cartography up to the Year 1918. A study of the birth and evolution of Armenian cartography’ (by Rouben Galichian; the entire text of the fully-illustrated 168-page book, published in 2017) {May, 2018}
• Armenia (see Rouben Galichian's Academia.edu page)
• Holy Land. Bibliography of works relating to the history of cartography of Palestine and Israel ('Compilation of References Published by Israeli Human Geographers' - Shaul Krakover and Yehuda Gradus, with the assistance of Miriam Brodt [2002?]) {October, 2003}
• Holy Land. ‘Diverse cartography of the Levant’ (an illustrated note on early maps of the eastern Mediterranean - British Library Maps and views blog, 23 September 2019) {October, 2019}
• Holy Land. ‘Finding, Researching and Listing a Wall Map of Canaan’ (a note by Ted Simonds of a 6-sheet map in a composite atlas in the National Library of Scotland, identified as by Jan Janssonius and Georg Horn for Accuratissima orbis antiqui delineatio (1653)) {May, 2021}
• Holy Land. 'How one Fourteenth-Century Venetian Remembered the Crusades: The Maps and Memories of Marino Sanuto' (Julia Harte in: PennHistory Review 15,2 (Spring 2008), Article 2) {August, 2010}
• Holy Land. ‘Mapping the Bible’ (an exhibition, curated by Reinout Klaarenbeekat, for the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 22 June-31 August 2022) {May, 2023}
• Holy Land. 'Matthew Paris' 'other' map of Palestine' (reissue of an illustrated article by Evelyn Edson in The Map Collector 66 (Spring 1994) - Kunstpedia) {July, 2010}
• Holy Land. 'Memoirs of a Map-Collector' (reprint of the chapter by Eran Laor, in: Helen Wallis & Sarah Tyacke (eds) My Head is a Map: Essays & Memoirs in honour of R.V. Tooley (London: Francis Edwards & Carta Press, 1973) pp. 117-30 - the author's collection of Holy Land maps is now in the Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem) {June, 2010}
• Holy Land. 'Terra Sancta: maps, politics, and history in the Holy Land' (by Shaul Cohen - Mercator's World 3:5, 1998)
• Holy Land. 'Using the Right Tool: David Woodward’s Suggested Framework and the Study of Military Cartography' (Joel Douglas Radunzel in Cartographic Perspectives 81 (2015) - a case study of the framework suggested by David Woodward in 1974 for organizing the study of the history of cartography, focused on the British military’s Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) during the Gaza Campaign of late 1917) {February, 2016}
• Holy Land. 'Visualizing the map-making process: Studying 19th century Holy Land cartography with Map Analyst' (illustrated article by Sophie Perthus & Jutta Faehndrich, in: e-Perimetron, 8:2 (2013), pp.60-84 - using two editions of the “Map of the Holy Land” (1858 and 1865) by Charles William Meredith van de Velde) {August, 2013}
• Holy Land. 'Zucker Holy Land Travel Manuscript' (written by an unknown German scholar 1690-1700, including images of the 85 carefully drawn MS maps taken from various sources - Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image, University of Pennsylvania Libraries) {October, 2011}
• Holy Land - Jerusalem. 'Greek-Orthodox maps of Jerusalem from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries' (illustrated article by Rehav Rubin, in: e-Perimetron, 8:3 (2013), pp. 106-32) {December, 2013}
• * Holy Land - ‘Jerusalem as the 'omphalos' of the world: on the history of geographical concept’ (4-page article by Philip S. Alexander, Judaism, Spring, 1997 - via Questia.com) {October, 2004}
• Holy Land - Jerusalem. 'Representations of Jerusalem in Christian European Maps from the 6th to the 16th Centuries: A Comparative Tool for Reading the Message of a Map in its Cultural Context' (a 49- page pdf article, by Tsafra Siew, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the European Forum, with separate Illustrations) {December, 2008}
• Holy Land - Jerusalem. 'The story of the maps' (a six-part historical text, with 'sources', accompanying a gallery of images - the Jewish National and University Library and the Department of Geography, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem) {December, 2002}
• + Holy Land - 'Jerusalem 3000: Three Millennia of History' (Harold L. Osher, et al., 1996 - Osher Map Library exhibition) {October 2000}
• Israel. 'Barrel in the Courtyard of the Survey of Israel' (6-page pdf article by Dov Gavish - International Symposium on "Old Worlds-New Worlds": The History of Colonial Cartography 1750-1950, Utrecht, 21-23 August 2006 (Working Group on the History of Colonial Cartography in the 19th and 20th Centuries, International Cartographic Association)) {March, 2008}
• Jordan. Madaba Map. ‘El mapa de Madaba: estudio bibliográfico’ (a bibliography arranged in thematic sections, by Enrique García Sánchez, 30 January 2019) {March, 2019}
• Jordan. 'The Cartographic Context of the Madaba Map' (by Paul D. A. Harwey [sic, i.e. Harvey] - the footnoted article originally appeared in The Madaba Map Centenary (Jerusalem 1999), 103-7) {January, 2006}
• Jordan. 'The Madaba Map in the History of Cartography' (by Soren Giversen - the article originally appeared in The Madaba Map Centenary (Jerusalem 1999), 248-50) {January, 2006}
• Jordan. 'The Madaba Map: a virtual travel through the Holy Places' (an expanded version of a chapter of the book: M. Piccirillo & E. Alliata (eds), The Madaba Map Centenary 1897-1997. Travelling through the Byzantine Umayyad Period. Proceedings of the International Conference Held in Amman, 7-9 April 1997 - Eugenio Alliata, 2000) {December, 2003}
• Jordan. ‘The Madaba Mosaic Map’ (with links to 33 articles and a Bibliography) {March, 2005}
• Jordan. Madaba Map (Michele Piccirillo - Franciscan Archaeological Institute, via John Abela's site)
• Jordan. 'The Tabula Peutingeriana and the Madaba Map' (by Ekkehard Weber - the footnoted article originally appeared in The Madaba Map Centenary (Jerusalem 1999), 41-6) {January, 2006}
• Lebanon. 'Late 18th century Russian Navy maps and the first 3D visualization of the walled city of Beirut' (illustrated pdf article by Michael F. Davie & Mitia Frumin, in: e-Perimetron, 2:2 (Spring 2007), pp. 52-65) {January, 2008}
• Lebanon. 'Maps and the historical topography of Beirut' (Michael F Davie, from Berytus 1987)
• Palestine. ’An idiosyncratic method of locational referencing that has me stumped’ (re unusual coordinate and location systems, referenced to London, on a map of Palestine - Matthew Edney’s blog ‘Mapping as Process, 4 December 2019) {December, 2019}
• Palestine. ‘Mapping Palestine before Israel’ (‘a new open-source project uses British historical maps to reveal what Palestine looked like before 1948’ – CityLab, 21 May 2018) {May, 2018}
• Palestine. ‘Maps, Technology, and Decolonial Spatial Practices in Palestine’ (an illustrated note - International Middle East Media Center, 19 January 2020) {January, 2020}
• ‘Palestine Open Maps: using open source tools for historic maps research’ (illustrating detailed maps of the village of Lubya before what Palestinians know as the Nakba and the village’s subsequent disappearance, by Majd Al-Shihabi, British Library Digital Scholarship Blog, 20 May 2019 – illustrating the Palestine Open Maps Project) {May, 2019}
• Persia. 'Pietro della Valle's Latin geography of Safavid Iran (1624-1628): Introduction' (by Sonja Brentjes & Volkmar Schüller in Journal of Early Modern History 10, 3 (2006): 169-219) {May, 2011}
• Red Sea, see under Africa
• Turkey. ‘Depicting the Greek communities in “Smyrna Zone”, Asia Minor at the beginning of 20th century (1919 – 1922), combining historical maps with textual data’ (illustrated article by Evangelos Voulgarakis, et al., in: e-Perimetron, 15:1 (2020), pp. 26-43) {May, 2020}
• Turkey. 'European Cartographers and the Ottoman World 1500–1750: Maps from the Collection of O. J. Sopranos' (the 143-page, illustrated catalogue of the 2007 exhibition at the Oriental Institute Museum of the University of Chicago, by Ian Manners, with a contribution by M. Pinar Emiralioglu) {March, 2013}
• Turkey. 'History of Maps and Important Map Collections in Turkey' (an unpublished 11-page pdf article by Hakan Anameriç, 30th MELCOM International Conference, Oxford (United Kingdom), 23-25 June 2008) {November, 2009}
• Turkey. 'Mapmaking in Ottoman Istanbul between 1650 and 1750: a domain of painters, calligraphers, or cartographers?' (by Sonja Brentjes, in Colin Imber, et al. (eds) Frontiers of Ottoman Studies (London: Tauris, 2005) 2: 125-56) {May, 2011}
• Turkey. 'The Oldest Map of the World' (on the Çatalhöyük map, dated to 6,200 BC and now in the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations) {February, 2003}
• Turkey – Istanbul. ‘Comparison of Past and Present Maps of Istanbul Historic Peninsula in GIS, Based on the Insurance Maps of Jacques Pervititch’ [1922-45] (illustrated article by Alper Sen, in: e-Perimetron, 15:4 (2020), pp.183-98) {January, 2021}
• Turkey - Troy. Troja und die Troas (Dietrich Willers) {November 2000}
• Turkey see also under Europe, e.g. Aegean Sea

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