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S I B E R I A
Tyr

E U R O P E MONGOL I A P E Amur

E P HEILONGJIANG
T Songhua
A S I A T H E S
BLACK SEA UZBEKISTAN Hami G O B I Tumu LIAONING
Istanbul D E S E R T Xuanfu Fort Juyong Liaodong
Datong Pass Peninsula
Samarkand XINJIANG AUTONOMOUS REGION Mount Beijing NORTH
XINJIANG UYGUR ZIZHIQU Yellow River Wutai Taiyuan Dalian KOREA
QINGHAI SHANDONG Seoul SOUTH J A PA N
AFGHANISTAN C H I N A Xi'an Grand Canal KOREA
Kaifeng
Jeju
M E D I T E R R A N E A N S E A
TIBET AUTONOMOUS REGION Mount Mount Island
IRAN XIZANG ZIZHIQU Wudang Zhong Nanjing
H
N I HUBEI Suzhou
A SICHUAN Yangtze Liujiagang Shanghai
Cairo T M A Hangzhou
S L Jingdezhen
I N E P A L A Y A S
Hormuz A K New Delhi Ryūkyū Islands
Taihe
P County Changle Okinawa
Medina BANGLA YUNNAN Quanzhou
S AU D I DESH Xiamen
AR AB IA BENGAL Chittagong Nanning
Jeddah GUJARAT P A C I F I C
WEST
Mecca IND I A MYANMAR LAOS Red River
ARABIAN BURMA Delta
PENINSULA O M A N O C E A N
Dhofar V I E T N A M
Y E M E N THAILAND
Mukalla
Ayutthaya
Qui Nhon
Aden CAMBODIA
A F R I C A Kozhikode (Calicut) Andaman P HIL IP P INE S
Islands
Cochin
Quilon
SRI LANKA Nicobar
Islands
S O M A L I A Galle Banda Aceh Strait of Malacca BRUNEI Sulu
Kelantan
Semudera
Pahang
Mogadishu MALA Y S IA
Malacca
Baraawe S u m a t r a
Borneo
N Y A I N DON E SI A
E Lamu
K Malindi Palembang
Mombasa
A T L A N T I C TAN ZAN IA I N D I A N O C E A N
Zanzibar
J a v a Surabaya
O C E A N
N
Zheng He’s main route
0 500 1000 miles
Subsidiary route
Locations mentioned in the book Istanbul
0 500 1000 1500 kilometres

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