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Old maps of Vietnam and Paracel Islands drawn by Westerners PDF Print E-mail
Main Author: Thomson, John
Title/Description: East India Isles
Publication Info: Edinburgh: John Thomson, 1817, from Thomson's New General Atlas
Date: 1817
Scale: 1:9,024,000
Original Source: Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

The maps below indicate that China is drawn in the green color (Hainan), while Vietnam is drawn in the pink color. The Paracel islands are clearly shown to be drawn in the pink.





The old Dutch map below is now kept in the British National Library. Vietnam's borders is drawn in yellow color, the same color used for the Paracel islands.



This map was drawn in 1686 by a priest Placide of Augustine. The map is now kept in the French national library

Map of the Great Empire of An Nam (1838)



MAP OF GREAT EMPIRE OF AN NAM (1838) by Father J.L.Taberd
TABULA GEOGRAPHICA EMPERII ANAMITICI (1838)
AN NAM ĐẠI QUỐC HỌA ĐỒ (1838)

In this map, at the position of Paracel Archipelago (quần đảo Hoàng Sa) Father Taberd notes: Paracel seu Cát Vàng (which means Paracel OR Cat Vang; in Latin seu means or). It is himhelf, who in his book Univers, Histoire et Description de Tous Les Peuples, de Leurs Religions, Moeurs et Coutumes (1833), wrote that Vietnamese call Paracels by the name of Cat Vang. Cat Vang stands literally for Yellow Sand (which in Sino-Vietnamese is Hoang Sa)
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