Vietnam: A map of Tonkin by Alexandre de Rhodes (15 March 1593 - 5 November 1660), 1651. One of the earliest Western maps showing details of northern and central Vietnam, it appeared in Father Alexander de Rhodes' 'Histoire du royaume de Tunquin', published in Rome in 1650. This map is from the French edition, published a year later in Lyon. Oriented with the north to the right, 'Regnu Annam' shows the extent of seventeenth-century Vietnam, at the time divided between two rival dynasties. Remnants of the Cham kingdom, eventually destroyed by the Vietnamese, still existed in the south.

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