This simplified and dated geographic Map provides a complete overview of Korea in the year 1815. It was taken from an Atlas Published in the year.
The hand-drawn Map provides a rough sense of the relief and terrain in this mountainous country, color coding the various provinces and territories within both nations at the time and roughly delineating their borders. Unfortunately, the quality of the map image in most cases does not allow for the distinction of names of towns and villages even though these are included in the map.
Neighboring nations and regions of Korea are in clockwise direction; Chinese Qing Dynasty held Manchuria along the East and North, a Part of Russian dominated lands in current Primorsky Krai Oblast in the North-East and North, across the Sea of Japan (East Sea) the island nation of Japan in the East and South-East and finally, not depicted on this map across the Yellow Sea, Hebei and Shandong Provinces of China (PRC) in the West and North-West.
Marked on the map for reference are the current day names and locations of Main Cities and Towns, the location of main roads and railways, as well as rivers, lakes and sea's.
