Map Quiz Guide
For the map quiz, you will need to be familiar with all the geographical features on the above
map (which are also all listed below for reference) as well as all the cities, marked by numbers
(names that go with each number are given in the list below). The cities chosen include a range
of important modern cities and ones chosen due to their significance in some period of premodern East Asian history. For two cities, an important historic name from pre-1600 East Asia is
given in parentheses (usually a name I will refer to a lot in class) – you can answer either the
modern name or the historic name on the quiz; you do not need to know both (FYI: many other
cities also had different names in the past – those names are not included here to avoid too much
confusion). The quiz will require you to identify 10 cities and 10 geographical features from this
map. You will not receive a word bank – but the quiz will make clear what type of geographical
feature each answer should be.
Cities (current national capitals given in italics):
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
Seoul
Pyongyang
Busan
Tokyo
Kyoto (Heian)
Nara
Beijing
Nanjing
Guangzhou
10. Xi’an (Chang’an)
11. Luoyang
12. Kaifeng
13. Hangzhou
14. Ulaanbaatar
15. Karakorum
16. Chengdu
17. Anyang
18. Lhasa
19. Dunhuang
20. Nagasaki
21. Datong
22. Hiroshima
23. Turpan
24. Wuhan
25. Sapporo
26. Harbin
27. Taipei
Islands:
Hokkaidō
Kyūshū
Honshū
Shikoku
Ryūkyū Islands
Taiwan
Hainan
Rivers (alternate names given in parentheses – these are also acceptable answers):
Amur (or Heilongjiang)
Yalu (Amrok)
Yellow (Huanghe)
Yangtze (Changjiang)
Xi (West River, Pearl River also acceptable)
Bodies of Water:
Sea of Japan (preferred in Japan)/East Sea (preferred in Korea)
Yellow Sea
East China Sea
South China Sea
Tsugaru Strait
Korea Strait
Others (type of feature given in parentheses if not clear from name):
Tian Shan (mountain range)
Himalayas (mountain range)
Tarim Basin
Sichuan Basin
North China Plain
Gobi Desert
Ordos Desert
Plateau of Tibet (or Tibetan Plateau)
Mongolian Plateau