Ethnographic maps of the 19th century
1 min readJun 27, 2020
Ethnographic maps created in the 19th century reveal the distribution of distinct ethnic groups and languages.
Most of the ethnographic maps focus on parts of the colonial world in which the ethnic distribution was only coming to be studied by Western scientists and also in those regions of Europe and Asia where the geography of ethnicity differed with political borders.
Ethnic map of Asia and Europe (1847)
