List of historical maps

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The following is a list of notable extant historical maps.

Early world maps

Main article: 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

Main article: List of 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)

See also

• History of cartography

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