Google Mapped: The Travels of Marco Polo

Someone has graciously plotted and annotated a google map with all the places Marco Polo visited during his travels to China and back. Click here for the larger version.


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Posted Sep 23rd 2008 11:11a.m. by steve_lee
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stonebanks

Amazing. The space between the two south visits (Suzhou? and Hangzhou?) increases my skepticism that he ever got far beyond the border.

2 months, 1 week ago

zachary_franklin

What do the blue highlighted parts have to do with Polo's journey (i.e. the gigantic one that is the Gobi Desert)?

2 months, 1 week ago

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