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China (north)

 

On this page you will find a map of China (north) and some information about the country. The map is a detail of a Map of the World published by Planet Poster Editons in Germany.

 

This Map of the World costs 11.50 Euros, it is described in detail at www.planetposter.de (only in German) and can be ordered at www.wissenladen.de.

 

Official name of country: Zhongguo

Official script of the country: Chinese/chinesisch, Latin/Latein, Arabic/arabisch, Korean/koreanisch, Classical Mongolian/klassisches Mongolisch

Capital: Beijing.

Number of inhabitats: see www.citypopulation.de.

 

Map of China (north)

 

Map of China (north) with surrounding areas. - Landkarte von China (Nord). - Mapa de China (norte). - Carte de Chine (nord).

 



China's capital is Beijing, the biggest cities of the country are Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin. Flights to China go either to Beijing or Shanghai.
The map "China "north" depicts the region around Beijing, Manchuria and Inner Mongolia. The expression Manchuria goes back to a Japanese word (Man-shu), the Chinese don't like that and subdivided the region into several provinces, the largest one being Heilongjiang in the north. The biggest cities in this region, which are indicated in our map, are Dalian, Dandong, Anshan, Shenyang, Baishan, Changchun, Jilin, Haerbin, Jixi, Baicheng, Daqing, Yichun, Hegang, Qiqihaer and Heihe. The cities of Tongliao and Chifeng also belong practically to this region, although officially attached to Inner Mongolia. The whole area extends northwards to the Heilongjiang river (in Russian Amur). The weastern border is marked by the Ussuri river, which often overfloods the land and changes its bed - repeatedly rising the question as to where the country frontiers are afterwards. In the communist era there were serious armed conflicts between China and the Soviet Union on this matter. In the south the region is limited by North Korea and the Yellow Sea (Huang Hai).
The borders of Inner Mongolia (in Chinese Nei Monggol or Nei Menggu, in Mongolian Öbür Mongol) are also finxed in a matter that areas were included where nearly no Mongolians lived, so that they remain a minority in this administrative area. Despite this situation, the classical Mongioolian script has survived in the form of an officially recognized script of a minority. Although this script was not tought in schools, only few people could read it and is rarely used in the public. But it was not forgotten, in contrast to the situation in Mongolia, where after 1940 the Cyrillic script had been introduced under Soviet pressure and classical Mongolian was suppressed. In our map we have quoted, next to Chinese and Latin, the Mongolian script names for the cities and towns in Inner Mongolia (except for those cities that have only been added to Inner Mongolia for tactical reasons, and where not many Mongolians had lived). Mongolians are traditionally a migratory people and never had lived in big cities - forcing them to do so was not very kind by the Chinese. A migratory way of life was a very effective way to allow the natural resources to recover after short periods of intensive land use. Many Mongolians live at present in Manjuur, Hailar, Yakshi, Ulanhot, Xilin Hot and Hohhot (in Chinese Huhohuote - the other towns have Chinese names, too, that sound more or less like to Mongolian originals). Mainly by Han Chinese people are inhabited the cities of Wuhai, Linhe, Baotou (the biggest city of Inner Mongolia), Tongliao and Chifeng.
There are only few internet websites presenting these names in both Chinese and Latin scripts. But we have not found any site where the classical Mongolian spellings are recorded, this seems to be extremely rare, perhaps unique on this page.

The official countrywide language of the areas administrated by China is Chinese. Next to Chinese there are several other locally official languages: Zhuang in the province of Guangxi (= Gvangjsih), Mongolian in Inner Mongolia, Tibetan in Tibet, Uighur in the province of Xinjiang Uygur, English in Hong Kong (= Xiangang) and Portuguese in Macau (= Aomen), additionally obviously Kazakh and Korean.
China claims to possess Taiwan, an island between China and the Philippines, which is practically independent since the 1950s. China regards Taiwan as a Chinese province without any rights. Doing so, China abuses its power for example to impede Taiwan to get a seat in the United Nations, or to impede Taiwanese sportists from participating at the Olympic games. They are forced to qualify in the US team or elsewhere.
Since 1950 China has annected Tibet after a military intrusion, of course without asking the Tibetan people. This action was invalid according to international laws, Tibet was an independent country, its exile government under leadership of the Dalai Lama is at present located in Daramsala in India. China administrates Tibet, the Tibetan language is officially recognized (although only in a part of the former Tibetan area), and is obviously very scared of possible movements in Tibet supporting independency. So scared that even the primary school books insist emphatically on the "fact" that Tibet is a part of China.

China in its present-day administrative borders is one of the largest countries in the world. Because the names of the localities in our map would not be readable, we subdivided the maps and present several pages - for the other maps please click in the list of Asian countries below (Tibet and Taiwan are listed separately).
Tourism is of local importance in China. The Great Wall is one of the main attractions, but unfortunately only in a very small part. Large parts of the thousands of kilometers of the largest building ever constructed by humans, are currently under destruction by local people who use the stones for their own purposes. We would appreciate more detailed information, also about tourism, flights, or individual tours to China.

 

Links to all maps in Asia:

Afghanistan   Andaman Islands [IN]   Arabian Sea [~~~~~]   Armenia   Azerbaijan   Bahrain   Banda Sea [~~~~~]   Bangladesh   Bay of Bengal [~~~~~]   Bhutan   Borneo [ID, MY, BN]   Brunei   Cambodia   Cashmere   China (east)   China (north)   China (south)   China (west)   Cyprus   East China Sea [~~~~~]   East Timor   Georgia   India (Assam)   India (north)   India (south)   Indian Ocean [~~~~~]   Indonesia (central)   Indonesia (east)   Indonesia (Halmahera)   Indonesia (Java)   Indonesia (Sulawesi)   Indonesia (Sumatra)   Indonesia (west)   Iran   Iraq   Israel   Japan   Japan (Okinawa)   Japan Sea [~~~~~]   Jordan   Kazakhstan (east)   Kazakhstan (west)   Kuwait   Kyrgyzstan   Laos   Lebanon   Malaysia   Maldives   Mongolia   Myanmar   Nepal   Nicobar Islands [IN]   North Korea   Okhotsk Sea [~~~~~]   Oman   Pakistan   Palestine   Philippines   Qatar   Russia (Anadyr)   Russia (Irkutsk)   Russia (Kamchatka)   Russia (Magadan)   Russia (Norilsk)   Russia (Novosibirsk)   Russia (Okhotsk)   Russia (Omsk)   Russia (Sakhalin)   Russia (Yakutsk)   Russia (Yamal)   Saudi Arabia   Singapore   South China Sea [~~~~~]   South Korea   Sri Lanka   Syria   Taiwan   Tajikistan   Thailand   Tibet   Turkey   Turkmenistan   United Arab Emirates   Uzbekistan   Vietnam   Yellow Sea [~~~~~]   Yemen  

 

Links to all continents:

Afrika   Antarktis   Asien   Australien/Ozeanien   Europa   Nord- und Mittelamerika   Südamerika   World

 

 

 

This is our Map of the World with original scripts (original size 70 x 100 cm), from which the detailed map shown above has been cut out. The numbers of city inhabitants and vegetational zones were researched by hand for every country, by using the sources listed below. This procedure prevented the map from containing traditional errors provoked by simply copying such information from previous maps.

The map can be ordered for 11.50 Euros (+ postage and packing) at www.wissenladen.de.

 

Sources on which the information contained in this map is based:

 

The vegetational base map was aligned with satellite pictures from Google Earth.

The official names of the countries are quite well researched at www.geonames.de.

Also here you can find information on the geography of many countries: www.geographixx.de.

The numbers of inhabitants of the cities were taken from www.citypopulation.de.

And the mountain peak altitudes were largely derived form www.peakbagger.com.

 

This is the link to the sitemap, where all areas with maps are linked.

 

 

The Map of the World was compiled by F. Welter-Schultes (Planet Poster Editions, Göttingen, Germany). Copyright (c) 2006 R. Krätzner & F. Welter-Schultes.

Commercial reprints of detailed maps like this one, including on commercial web pages, are not principally excluded, but require explicite permission of the publisher. We will be pleased to grant such a permission, prices are individually negociable and certainly not too expensive.
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Reprints for non-commercial purposes are even less complicated - but also in these cases please inform the publisher in advance, and in any case mention the source www.planetposter.de.

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