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The following is a list of notable extant historical maps.

==Early world maps== {{main|Early world maps}} *Babylonian Map of the World (flat-earth diagram on a clay tablet, c. 600 BC) *''Tabula Rogeriana'' (1154) *Psalter world map (1260) *''Tabula Peutingeriana'' (1265, medieval map of the Roman Empire, believed to be based on 4th century source material) *Hereford Mappa Mundi (c. 1285; the largest medieval map known still to exist) *Map of Maximus Planudes (c. 1300), earliest extant realization of Ptolemy's world map (2nd century) *Gangnido (Korea, 1402) *Bianco world map (1436) *Fra Mauro map (c. 1450) *Map of Bartolomeo Pareto (1455) *Genoese map (1457) *Map of Juan de la Cosa (1500) *Cantino planisphere (1502) *Piri Reis map (1513) *Dieppe maps (c. 1540s-1560s) *Mercator 1569 world map *''Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'' (Ortelius, Netherlands, 1570–1612) *''Kunyu Wanguo Quantu'' (1602)

==Notable atlases== {{Main|List of atlases}} *''Atlas Maior'' (Blaeu, Netherlands, 1635–1658) *''Klencke Atlas'' (1660) *''Atlas Maior'' (Blaeu, Netherlands, 1662–1667) *''Cary's New and Correct English Atlas'' (London, 1787) *''Andrees Allgemeiner Handatlas'' (Germany, 1881–1939; in the UK as ''Times Atlas of the World'', 1895) *''Times Atlas of the World'' (United Kingdom, 1895) *''Rand McNally Atlas'' (United States, 1881–present) *''Stielers Handatlas'' (Germany, 1817–1944) *''Atlante Internazionale del Touring Club Italiano'' (Italy, 1927) *''Atlas Mira'' (Soviet Union/Russia, 1937)

==Early regional maps== *Ancient Egypt **Turin Papyrus Map (c. 1150 BC) *Cartography of Europe **''Carta Pisana'' (13th century) **Corbitis Atlas (late 14th century collection of portolan charts) *Early Chinese cartography **''Da Ming Hunyi Tu'' (late 14th century Ming dynasty Chinese map) *Maps of Russia **''Godunov map'' (1667) *Maps of Scandinavia **Carta marina (c. 1530) **Det Kongelige danske Søkortarkiv (1784) *French cartography: **Cassini maps (1756–1789) *Cartography of India **Survey of India (1767) **Great Trigonometrical Survey (1802–1858) *Maps of Korea **Haedong Samgukdo *Cartography of Switzerland **Dufour Map (1863) **Siegfried Map (1895–1926) *Cartography of the United States **''Americae Sive Quartae Orbis Partis Nova Et Exactissima Descriptio'' (1562) **New and Correct Map of the United States of North America Abel Buell (1784) **Samuel Augustus Mitchell (1867) **United States Geological Survey, ''National Program for Topographic Mapping'' (1884) **''War of the Rebellion Atlas'' (1895) *Maps of the United Kingdom **''The Brittania'' (John Ogilby, 1670–1676) **Principal Triangulation of Great Britain (1784–1853)

==See also== {{commonscat|Old maps}} *History of cartography * * historical maps maps Category:Lists of maps

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