The Administrative Boundary Maps of China: 1949-2017

<strong>Sources</strong> This data sources for this map products include the following primary sources: The Chronicle of the Administrative Divisions at County Level and Above of the People's Republic of China" (three volumes, 1949-1983) The Historical Atlas of the Administrative Divisions of the People's Republic of China The annual publications of administrative divisions (1985- 2017) The web site of the administrative divisions: www.xzqh.org. <strong>The periods of main changes in administrative divisions</strong> 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. 1988: Hainan was established as a province 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. 1999: Macau became a Special Administrative Region of People’s Republic of China. <strong> Map Scale and Projections</strong> Map Scale: 1: 1 million Map Projection: Equal Area Conic Projection The Projected Coordinate System: Asia North Albers Equal Area Conic Projection parameters: Projection: Albers False Easting: 0.00000000 False Northing: 0.00000000 Central Meridian: 110.00000000 Standard_Parallel_1: 25.00000000 Standard_Parallel_2: 47.00000000 Latitude of Origin: 10.00000000 Linear Unit: Meter Geographic Coordinate System: GCS_Beijing_1954 Datum: D_Beijing_1954 Prime Meridian: Greenwich Angular Unit: Degree 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.   For more details, please refer to the ReadMe files. <strong>CLICK HERE TO REQUEST FOR DATASET</strong>