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Their map is difficult to understand. I can't read the labels (weird font, too small) and I can't figure out what part of the world I'm looking at. The followi

Their map is difficult to understand. I can't read the labels (weird font, too small) and I can't figure out what part of the world I'm looking at. The following map gives me some context: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Silk_route.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Silk_rou... Red are land routes and blue are the sea/water routes. The OP's map appears to be the area above China and India where you see two parallel red lines.

jcranmer 10y ago
Close, but not quite. I first interpreted the large oval in the upper right of the image as the Tarim Basin (the large oval desert in China). However, given the city names, it became clear that the distances didn't work. The large oval in the image is in fact the oval lake in Kyrgyzstan (slightly above the northernmost red line). The lines on Wikipedia's map are so thick that they obscure most of the relevant features in the image. The bounds of the image on Google Maps is roughly this: https://goo.gl/maps/akaV2mcgUXv https://goo.gl/maps/akaV2mcgUXv (I don't know how well the exact extent matches up). Bishkek and Almaty are at the northern edge of the image, Kashgar at the southern edge, Karakol at the eastern edge, and Kokand at the western edge. In simpler terms, just make sure you can see all of Kyrgyzstan and not really much more than all Kyrgyzstan.