Kunyu Wanguo Quantu

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Kunyu Wanguo Quantu is a Chinese world map printed in 1602. It was created by the Italian Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci and his Chinese collaborators, the mandarin Zhong Wentao, and the technical translator Li Zhizao. It is the earliest known Chinese world map based on European cartography.

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Image: Matteo Ricci, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.