The Administrative Boundary Maps of China: 1949-2017

Abstract

<p><strong>Sources</strong></p> <p>This data sources for this map products include the following primary sources:</p> <ul> <li>The Chronicle of the Administrative Divisions at County Level and Above of the People's Republic of China" (three volumes, 1949-1983)</li> <li>The Historical Atlas of the Administrative Divisions of the People's Republic of China</li> <li>The annual publications of administrative divisions (1985- 2017)</li> <li>The web site of the administrative divisions: www.xzqh.org.</li> </ul> <p><strong>The periods of main changes in administrative divisions</strong></p> <ul> <li> 1949 – 1954: changes in province-level divisions. In 1949, there was a total of 51 province-level divisions, including 12 municipalities administrated directly by the central government. In 1954, there was a total of 36 province-level divisions, including 3 municipalities administrated directly by the central government. </li> <li>1988: Hainan was established as a province</li> <li>1997: Chongqing was established as a province-level municipality administrated directly by the central government. Hong Kong became a Special Administrative Region of People’s Republic of China.</li> <li>1999: Macau became a Special Administrative Region of People’s Republic of China.</li> </ul> <p><strong> Map Scale and Projections</strong></p> <ul> <li> Map Scale: 1: 1 million</li> <li>Map Projection: Equal Area Conic Projection</li> <li>The Projected Coordinate System: Asia North Albers Equal Area Conic</li> <li>Projection parameters: </li> <ul> <li>Projection: Albers</li> <li>False Easting: 0.00000000</li> <li>False Northing: 0.00000000</li> <li>Central Meridian: 110.00000000</li> <li>Standard_Parallel_1: 25.00000000</li> <li>Standard_Parallel_2: 47.00000000</li> <li>Latitude of Origin: 10.00000000</li></ul> <li>Linear Unit: Meter</li> <li>Geographic Coordinate System: GCS_Beijing_1954</li> <li>Datum: D_Beijing_1954</li> <li>Prime Meridian: Greenwich</li> <li>Angular Unit: Degree</li></ul> <p> This dataset contains boundary maps of China from 1949 to 2017.<br> All maps are saved in Shp file format as polygons, made by ArcMap 10.2. <br> There is a separate folder for those administrative boundary maps of each year, which includes (1) county map; (2) city map; and (3) province map. </p> <p>For more details, please refer to the ReadMe files.</p> <p><a href="https://forms.office.com/r/JjYw9A5H6Y"><strong>CLICK HERE TO REQUEST FOR DATASET</strong></a></p> <!--<p><a href="https://myaces.nus.edu.sg/efm/jsp/index.jsp?id=EFM0682"><strong>CLICK HERE TO REQUEST FOR DATASET</strong></a></p>-->