The Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci created the first comprehensive world map in the Chinese language in the early 17th century, while comprehensive world gazetteers were later translated into Chinese by Europeans.
Talijanski isusovac Matteo Ricci stvorio je prvu opsežnu kartu svijeta na kineskom jeziku u ranom 17. stoljeću, dok su Europljani kasnije na kineski prevodili opsežne geografske leksikone svijeta.