Korean Kangnido World Map Drawn
1402
Joseon cartographers assembled Chinese, Arab, and Korean geographical information into a single map depicting Eurasia from Japan to the Iberian Peninsula and showing Africa as an island. It was arguably the most geographically informed map on earth. No European cartographer of 1402 had comparable knowledge of the world beyond the Mediterranean.
In context
Also in 1402 (3 other events on record)
- Battle of Ankara · Middle East · War
- Yongle Emperor Seizes Nanjing · East Asia · Politics
- Ottoman Interregnum Begins · Middle East · War
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.