The ''Sihai Huayi Zongtu'' ("Complete Map of the Four Seas, China, and the Barbarians") is a Chinese world map dated to 1532, the 11th year of the Ming Dynasty's Jiajing Emperor. It is now located in the

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. The map is oriented towards the north and displays various locations in

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

, as well as Korea, Siberia (as ''Luohuangye''), Nepal and a vast India, Persia, on the central continent.

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

lies beyond the

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, along with such imaginary locations as the "Land of the Pygmies". The Roman Empire appears (as '' Daqinguo'') beyond the "Western Sea".

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