Since the official release of the "2023 Standard Map"
Some talk began to circulate on the Internet about the "new version of the map":
For example, the area has been expanded to 10.45 million square kilometers
All of the Black Blind Island belongs to China, and the Tumen River has access to the sea
Aksai Chin and southern Tibet are clearly marked as belonging to China, and the nine-dash line in the South China Sea has become a ten-dash line
Here is a special emphasis: the above are all false content, everyone should not be biased
In the standard "Map of China"
Generally, in addition to the basic content, only the title, legend, review number, producer and other information remain
The exact size of China is not indicated at all
I don't know how the "10.45 million square kilometers" rumored on the Internet came out of the "new version of the map"
And according to the official website of the Chinese government, China's total land area is about 9.6 million square kilometers
The total area of the sea area is about 4.73 million square kilometers, all of which remain unchanged from before
In the standard "Map of China", Black Blind Island is not visible
Because Black Blind Island covers an area of only 335 square kilometers, and on the land boundary line, it is not an island
A map of this large scale as the Map of China will not mark it
If you want to see the specific division of Black Blind Island
I have to look specifically at the "Map of Heilongjiang Province" and "Map of Jiamusi City"
Where the Heilongjiang River meets the Ussuri River is Black Blind Island
Black Blind Island always shows on the map that it belongs to China
As for whether the Tumen River has "added" access to the sea
In fact, if you zoom in on the "Map of China", you can see that there is no outlet to the sea here
It is even more obvious when viewed with the "Map of Jilin Province" and the "Map of Yanbian Prefecture"
Regarding Aksai Chin and the southern Tibetan region, starting with the first edition of the "Map of China" of New China
The Sino-Indian border has always been marked as a defined national border without any dispute
Aksai Chin and southern Tibet have always been inalienable territories of China
China has also specially issued the "Supplementary Map of the Distribution of Geographical Names in the Open Use in Southern Tibet"
China's only undetermined national border is the border between China and Tajikistan, and the others are all defined borders
Finally, neither the "nine-dash line in the South China Sea" nor the "10-dash line in the South China Sea" is an official statement
According to the "Public Map Content Representation Specification" issued by the Ministry of Natural Resources in February 2023
The correct term for the "10-dash line" should be: the intermittent line in the South China Sea and the relevant line in the East China Sea
The Code clarifies that there is a "nine-dash line" in the South China Sea and a "one-section line" in the East China Sea
Therefore, the statement of the "10-dash line in the South China Sea" is wrong, and there is no such thing as "the nine-dash line in the South China Sea becomes the 10-dash line"
Moreover, the "tenth dash line" existed before, and it was not added by the "new version of the map"
So what's new in the "new version of the map"?
After carefully comparing the 2022 edition of the China Map
The panorama only reveals that Tibet has one more county-level administrative center called Milin
If you find other new content, please feel free to point it out in the comments section