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Subject: Re: Maps showing countries with romanized versions of their own
(native) names?
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:43:54 -0700
From: Greg Armento <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>
There is this world map I recall from the early 1970s that did just that:
Le monde politique.
Institut géographique national (France). 1974 Ed. internationale.
French Map 1 map : col. ; 75 x 121 cm. 1:33,000,000
Paris
Greg Armento
Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee wrote:
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> Subject: RE: Maps showing countries with romanized versions of their own
> (native) names?
> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:13:30 -0700
> From: Ratliff, Louise <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
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>
> Dear Ben,
>
> I have my own personal copy of "Atlas Japan : in English & Japanese"
> edited by Teikoku-Shoin Co., Ltd, published by Teikoku-Shoin, Tokyo,
> First edition, 1989. 55 p. ISBN 4-8071-2705-5
>
> I bought it from a map store last year, so I don't know if you can find
> it in print. Place names are in Japanese with English forms too. There
> is an index (ordered by the English form) and a glossary of generic
> terms (both Roman and English forms included, along with meaning in
> English.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Louise
>
> Louise Ratliff
> Social Sciences and Map Catalog Librarian
> UCLA Cataloging & Metadata Center
>
>
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> (native) names?
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Maps showing countries with romanized versions of
> their own
> (native) names?
> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:28:16 -0400
> From: Ben Ostrowsky <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
>
>
> Hi folks,
>
> Please reply off-list (to [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>); I
> promise to summarize the responses I get.
>
> Do you know of any world maps that label each nation with a Romanized
> version of its own native name, e.g. "Daehanminguk", "Nihon", "Zhonghua"
> for "South Korea", "Japan", and "China" respectively? (It would also be
> great if the labels included the English names and the native names in
> their own script, but those are bells and/or whistles.)
>
> If so, could you give me a citation so I can try to track one down? I'd
> love to have a map showing the nations of the world as they see
> themselves, with somewhat less linguistic bias than usual.
>
> Thanks,
> Ben Ostrowsky
>
> --
> "Don't get suckered in by the comments;
> they can be terribly misleading.
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