Subject: chinese internal boundaries<br/>
Date: Jan 22, 2006 @ 08:36<br/>
Author: Brendan Whyte (&quot;Brendan Whyte&quot; &lt;bwhyte@...&gt;)<br/>
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New atlas of administrative divisions published <br/>
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www.chinaview.cn 2006-01-06 22:58:46 <br/>
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   BEIJING, Jan. 6 (Xinhuanet) -- China launched a new atlas of <br/>
administrative divisions here Friday to make public the results of its <br/>
recent survey and demarcation of nearly 480,000 km inter-province or <br/>
inter-county borderlines. <br/>
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   &quot;Regional borderline uncertainties had long existed in China, <br/>
resulting in many regional disputes. In previous Chinese atlas, 70 to 80 <br/>
percent of the borderlines were marked in broken lines as an expedient <br/>
to blur the border controversy,&quot; said Dai Junliang, director of the <br/>
Department of Administrative Divisions under the Ministry of Civil <br/>
Affairs (MCA), at Friday&#39;s press conference. <br/>
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   In the new atlas, more than 6,300 borderlines between provinces and <br/>
counties are marked with accuracy and legal augustness, which provides <br/>
authoritative reference for resolving any border disputes within Chinese <br/>
territory, said Dai. <br/>
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   The 29.7-by-42 cm atlas include China&#39;s 34 provincial units, 333 <br/>
prefectures, 2,862 counties and about 40,000 townships&#39; boundaries and <br/>
related information. <br/>
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   The atlas was compiled with sophisticated computer cartography and <br/>
two-year labor-intensive field work. It is jointly published by the MCA, <br/>
the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping and China Cartographic <br/>
Publishing House. Enditem</div>