Charles François Delamarche continued the mapmaking project initiated by Robert de Vaugondy, who was a royal cartographer of France, and thus followed in the lineage of French royal cartographers. He revised this map, drawn at a scale of 1:20,000,000, based upon the Asia map that Vaugondy had compiled. Depicting political demarcation lines of major countries in Asia, the map clearly delineates the relative location of Korea (Joseon), mainland Japan, Sakhalin, and the Kuril Islands to a degree rare for maps of that time. The name of the sea east of the Korean Peninsula is marked as Mer de Corée. The border between Joseon and Qing China follows the style of the French cartographer Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d''Anville.
Edited by the Northeast Asian History Foundation