List of historical maps

For images of historical maps hosted on Wikimedia, see commons:Old maps. For modern maps showing historical geography, see commons:Atlas of world history.

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

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* 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

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* 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)
* 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)
* 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)
* Maps of the United Kingdom
* The Brittania (John Ogilby, 1670–1676)
* Principal Triangulation of Great Britain (1784-1853)

## See also

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* History of cartography

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History|

* Early world maps
* Medieval Islamic cartography
* Early modern Iberian cartography
* Early modern Netherlandish cartography

By area|

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* Africa
* Asia
* Europe
* Latin America

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By country|

* China
* France
* India
* Israel
* Jamaica
* New Zealand
* Palestine
* Sri Lanka
* Switzerland
* Ukraine
* United States

By city|

* Dublin
* Jerusalem
* New York
* York

Individual maps|

| Ancient age|

* Ptolemy's world map
* Soleto Map (Sec. V BC)

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Middle age|

* Tabula Rogeriana (1154)
* Catalan Atlas (1375)

Early Modern age|

* Map of Juan de la Cosa (1500)
* Cantino planisphere (1502)
* Cosmographia (Sebastian Münster) (1544)

Contemporary age|

* Cassini map

See also|

* Compass rose
* Points of the compass

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