Da Ming Hunyi Tu

Da Ming Hunyi Tu
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	大明混一圖
Literal meaning	Amalgamated Map of the Great Ming
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Dà Míng Hùnyī Tú
Manchu name
Manchu script	ᡩᠠᡳ ᠮᡳᠩ ᡤᡠᡵᡠᠨ ᡳ ᡠᡥᡝᡵᡳᠯᡝᡥᡝ ᠨᡳᡵᡠᡤᠠᠨ
Romanization	Dai Ming Gurun-i Uherilehe Nirugan

The Da Ming Hunyi Tu (Chinese for the "Amalgamated Map of the Ming Empire") is an extensive Chinese map. It was painted in colour on stiff silk and 386 x 456 cm in size.^[1] The original text was written in Classical Chinese, but on the surviving copy Manchu labels were later superimposed. The surviving copy of the map shows later revisions, and it is uncertain whether it is (or how closely it matches) the original.

It is one of the oldest surviving maps from East Asia, although the exact date of creation remains unknown. It depicts Eurasia, placing China in the center and stretching northward to Mongolia, southward to Java, eastward to central Japan, and westward to Europe (including the East African coast as an island).^{[citation needed]}