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China (west)

 

On this page you will find a map of China (west) 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 (west)

 

Map of China (west) with surrounding areas. - Landkarte von China (West). - Mapa de China (oeste). - Carte de Chine (ouest).

 



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 (west)" shows the province of Xinjiang Uygur and some part of the occupied former country of Tibet. The biggest city of this province is Ürümchi (= Ürümqi), other towns Shihezi, Hami, Korla, Kuytun, Karamay, Gulya (= Yining), Aksu, Bachu, Kashgar, Shache and Hotan. The northern neighbour is Mongiolia, in the west Kazakhstan and Kyrgystan, in the south there is Kashmir (under dispute between India and Pakistan, there are also disputed with China in an area south of Hotan).
There are only few internet websites presenting these names in both Chinese and Latin scripts. Parts of the province are inhabited by a Uighur majority. It is part of Chinese policy to construct the province borders in such a way that national minorities form rarely a majority in these administrative areas. Han Chinese immigrants also contribute to such people as the Uigurs becoming a minority.
For our map of the world this region was one of the most difficult ones in terms of the scripts. Which scripts are used in this region? Chinese certainly not, it is impossible to write Uighur words with the Chinese script. The Chinese expressions in our maps refer to words used by the Chinese and that sound more or less like the original Uighur names. When the Musulman religion had been introduced, the Uighurs had learned to write Arabic (which does not work well because vowels are important and the Arabic script works mainly with consonants). After 1949 they were forced to write in Latin, because the Chinese communists did not like neither religion in general nor islamic radical movements in particular. Today Arabic is used again, at least partly, obviously because nobody had learned Latin and the imams at least can write Arabic. The Uighurs at the other side of the frontier (areas of the former Soviet Union) were forced to write in the Cyrillic script - also they seem to have returned to write in the Arabic script. Theoretically they could also use the classical Mongolian scipt, which in fact once had been invented by Uighurs, but nobody knows how to write that either.

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.
Please contact fwelter#gwdg.de (replace # by @, this is to avoid spam mails).

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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