1815
Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Vietnam
Published by the English cartographer John Cary (c.1754–1835), this colourful map of Southeast Asia includes a label naming the inhabitants of central Borneo as 'BIAYOS or the inland People'.
1801
Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
Map of the Birman Empire, with hand-drawn internal borders in red. Many of the names of regions, settlements and rivers are labelled with two names, one local and one Western: e.g. ‘Yoodra Shan oder Cambodia’ (‘oder’ is German for ‘or’).
1801
Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
Map of the Birman Empire, with hand-drawn internal borders in red. Many of the names of regions, settlements and rivers are labelled with two names, one local and one Western: e.g. ‘Yoodra Shan oder Cambodia’ (‘oder’ is German for ‘or’).
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