back / Chinese Towns, 1911

Title Chinese Towns, 1911
ID / label 1212 / chgis_towns_1911
Description The China Historical GIS (CHGIS) project has produced a comprehensive series of datasets related to the administrative geography of Chinese History. This dataset contains 1,985 counties. This dataset contains 40,017 towns for the year 1911.
# Records 40017
Timespan earliest: 1911; latest: 1911
Last modified 11 May 2023
Webpage https://chgis.fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/
WHG Permalink http://whgazetteer.org/datasets/1212
Creator(s) CHGIS was an international collaborative effort made up of research and technical teams, a management committee, and an advisory committee. The members who participated are recorded here: https://chgis.fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/pages/members/
Contributors WHG team
Citation CHGIS, 2016, "1911 Layers UTF8 Encoding", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/HHVVHX, Harvard Dataverse, V1

Access

Datasets in World Historical Gazetteer flagged "public" by contributors are open access, and may be downloaded under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License. This means you are free to:

  • Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
  • Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.

You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the CC-BY-4.0 license , and indicate if changes were made.

Downloads  


Download of augmented datasets larger than 25,000 rows is not supported right now.