Description: A map from 1920 of northern Asia showing the political boundaries at the time. The map shows the Russian Empire in Asia east of the Ural Mountains and Volga River, including the provinces of Tobolsk, Yeniseisk, Yakutsk, Anadir and Maritime Provinces, Amur, Trans–Baikal, Irkutsk, Tomsk, Semipalatinsk, Akmolinsk, Turgai, Uralsk, Trans Caspian, Khiva, Semirechinsk, Sir Daria, Samarkand, Ferghana, and Bokhara. The Chinese provinces of Mongolia, Manchuria, and Inner Mongolia are shown, as well as the northern portion of the Japanese Empire and Chosen (Korea). The map shows major cities, towns, ports, railways, mountain systems, plateaus, plains and steppes, lakes, rivers, coastal features, and islands.
Place Names: Miscellaneous Asia, Russia, Japan, China, Siberia, Manchuria, Mongolia, Chosen, Tibet, Steppes, Turkestan,
ISO Topic Categories: boundaries,
location,
inlandWaters,
oceans
Keywords: Northern Asia embracing Siberia, Mongolia and Japan, physical, physical features, boundaries,
location,
inlandWaters,
oceans, Unknown, 1920
Source: , Hammond's Modern Atlas of the World (New York, NY: C. S. Hammond and Company, Inc., 1920) 56-57
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman |
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