Earth:List of historical maps

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The following is a list of notable extant historical maps.

Early world maps

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  • Babylonian Map of the World (flat-earth diagram on a clay tablet, c. 600 BC)
  • Tabula Rogeriana (1154)
  • Psalter world map (1260)
  • Tabula Peutingeriana (1265, medieval map of the Roman Empire, believed to be based on 4th century source material)
  • Hereford Mappa Mundi (c. 1285; the largest medieval map known still to exist)
  • Map of Maximus Planudes (c. 1300), earliest extant realization of Ptolemy's world map (2nd century)
  • Gangnido (Korea, 1402)
  • Bianco world map (1436)
  • Fra Mauro map (c. 1450)
  • Map of Bartolomeo Pareto (1455)
  • Genoese map (1457)
  • Map of Juan de la Cosa (1500)
  • Cantino planisphere (1502)
  • Piri Reis map (1513)
  • Dieppe maps (c. 1540s-1560s)
  • Mercator 1569 world map
  • Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Ortelius, Netherlands, 1570–1612)
  • Kunyu Wanguo Quantu (1602)

Notable atlases

  • Atlas Maior (Blaeu, Netherlands, 1635–1658)
  • Klencke Atlas (1660)
  • Atlas Maior (Blaeu, Netherlands, 1662–1667)
  • Cary's New and Correct English Atlas (London, 1787)
  • Andrees Allgemeiner Handatlas (Germany, 1881–1939; in the UK as Times Atlas of the World, 1895)
  • Times Atlas of the World (United Kingdom, 1895)
  • Rand McNally Atlas (United States, 1881–present)
  • Stielers Handatlas (Germany, 1817–1944)
  • Atlante Internazionale del Touring Club Italiano (Italy, 1927)
  • Atlas Mira (Soviet Union/Russia, 1937)

Early regional maps

  • Ancient Egypt
    • Turin Papyrus Map (c. 1150 BC)
  • Cartography of Europe
    • Carta Pisana (13th century)
    • Corbitis Atlas (late 14th century collection of portolan charts)
  • Early Chinese cartography
    • Da Ming Hunyi Tu (late 14th century Ming dynasty Chinese map)
    • Godunov map (1667)
    • Carta marina (c. 1530)
    • Det Kongelige danske Søkortarkiv (1784)
  • French cartography:
    • Cassini maps (1756–1789)
  • Cartography of India
  • Cartography of Switzerland
    • Dufour Map (1863)
    • Siegfried Map (1895–1926)
  • Cartography of the United States
    • Americae Sive Quartae Orbis Partis Nova Et Exactissima Descriptio (1562)
    • New and Correct Map of the United States of North America Abel Buell (1784)
    • Samuel Augustus Mitchell (1867)
    • United States Geological Survey, National Program for Topographic Mapping (1884)
    • War of the Rebellion Atlas (1895)
    • The Brittania (John Ogilby, 1670–1676)
    • Principal Triangulation of Great Britain (1784–1853)

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