List of historical maps

The following is a list of notable extant  historical maps.

Early world maps

 * 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 Novus (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

 * 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)
 * Maps of Russia
 * Godunov map (1667)
 * Maps of Scandinavia
 * Carta marina (c. 1530)
 * Det Kongelige danske Søkortarkiv (1784)
 * French cartography:
 * Cassini maps (1756–1789)
 * Cartography of India
 * Survey of India (1767)
 * Great Trigonometrical Survey (1802–1858)
 * Maps of Korea
 * Haedong Samgukdo
 * 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)
 * Samuel Augustus Mitchell (1867)
 * United States Geological Survey, National Program for Topographic Mapping (1884)
 * War of the Rebellion Atlas (1895)
 * Maps of the United Kingdom
 * The Brittania (John Ogilby, 1670–1676)
 * Principal Triangulation of Great Britain (1784–1853)