Q1964The Kangnido combined Chinese, Korean and Islamicate geographic knowledge into one of East Asia's earliest surviving maps to depict Africa and Europe.
Made in early Joseon Korea, the Kangnido enlarged East Asia while compressing lands farther west—a map of relevance as much as scale. Yet its Africa, Arabia and Europe reveal information travelling through Mongol-era connections and Chinese access to Islamic cartography. Long before satellites, a world picture could be collaborative across centuries and continents.
