How big was the map of China's Ming Dynasty?

The land area of the Ming Dynasty at its height was 9.97 million square kilometers, which changed later.

The territory of the Ming Dynasty encompassed the Han land , and at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the northeast reached the Sea of Japan and the Outer Hinggan Mountains ? , later reduced to the Liao River basin; north to the Yinshan Mountains, later withdrawn to the Ming Great Wall; west to the Xinjiang Hami, later retreated to guard the Jiayuguan Pass; southwest of the Bay of Bengal, later folded back to about today's Yunnan realm; and in Qinghai and Tibet have tie-up guards, but also had recaptured Annam.

The Ming Dynasty was the last great unifying dynasty in Chinese history to be established by the Han Chinese.

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Ming Dynasty territorial changes

North

Ming Dynasty set up more than forty tie-up garrisons along the border of Outer Mongolia, including Dongshengwei (东胜衛) and Guanyanwei (斡難衛). Including the Dongshengwei, the Good Numbers River Wei, Kaiping Wei, Daning Wei, etc. are the Ming Dynasty border defense, and its direction is roughly the Yinshan Mountain, Daqingshan Mountain, Xilamulun River line.

After the Yongle, due to the weather turned cold, farming is not good, resulting in the border gradually moved south. In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, with the revival of Mongolia, the border was moved inward again, and the Great Wall was built to defend against Mongolia, and nine major towns were set up along the Great Wall to strengthen the defense, and the Great Wall became the boundary between the farming area and the nomadic area at that time.

North East

Zhu Yuanzhang set Liaodongduji to operate Liaodong, and then Zhu Di to pacify the female tribe, in the Yongle nine years (1411), set up Nuerganduji, *** jurisdiction over more than 130 guards. Xuande ten years (1435) Ming Xuanzong withdrew in the Nuergan of the garrison, but after the women still worship the Ming Dynasty, to the Wanli period guards increased to 384. In the late Ming Dynasty, the Later Jin Dynasty gradually replaced the Ming Dynasty in the northeast and took over Liaodong.

Northeastern neighboring Goryeo in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the great expansion of territory, through the recruitment of Oracle, killing, and driving out the female tribe, so that the country's boundaries continue to advance to the north, in 1393 Zhu Yuanzhang relocated the Tieling Wei, acquiescence to the replacement of Goryeo Lee's Joseon occupation of the Yalujiang River to the east, south of the Tumen River area.

Northwest

Ming early in the northwest successively with Hami, Shazhou, Anding, A Duan, Quxian, Chijin Mongolia, Handong left and other guards, the Ming dynasty's northwestern boundary covers the present-day Xinjiang.

Chenghua eight years (1472), Hami was captured by Turpan, after the Chenghua eighteen years (1482) recovered. During the Hongzhi period, three were lost and three were restored, and after the seventh year of the Jiajing period (1528), the west of Jiayuguan Pass was taken over by Turpan.

Southwest

In 1370, Tubo Xuanwu Envoy He lock Nampo rate of Tubo all the surrender, and then set up in Qinghai-Tibet region Ushizang, Duo Gan Wei Commanding Officer, to take a wide range of recruitment, multi-feudal building, due to the rule of the Tibetan policy. The policy of governing Tibet was to adopt a wide range of policies. After the completion of the unification of the Tibetan region, Ming Taizu asked the Tibetan people to lose horses as a gift, to bear the corvée, or steaming tea, lose rent rice, emphasizing that "the people of the people, the land has a gift, it is indispensable".

In 1407, Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty sent Liu Zhao and He Ming to Tibet to set up a post station, and in 1414, he sent Yang Sanbao, a middle-ranking official, to the Tibetan area to enjoin the local officials to restore the post station, and after many years of hard work, he finally made the post road to and from Xifan safe and smooth.

Southeast

Portugal leased Macao in 1553 and gained the right to moor ships, and in 1557 gained the right of abode, and the Portuguese had to pay rent to the Ming government, which still had sovereignty over Macao.

In 1624, Dutch colonizers entered southern Taiwan and built the city of Jelanchu. in 1626, Spanish colonizers entered northern Taiwan. in 1642, the Dutch drove out the Spanish and took over most of Taiwan. in 1661, Zheng Chenggong attacked Taiwan, expelling the Dutch the following year and capturing Taiwan.

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