40
Provinces. Capitals.
J
A STATISTICAL:
SHOWING THE AREAS,
{ [
༈། ་, * ། OF THE EIGHTEEN,
لس
wAreq inhiba rots (8
square Population, to sq.:::
اعد تفعل
Pope A
of Land
ALUTUS
rus
miles,
mile.
Cultivation.
Chihlí,
Peking,
59,949 27,990,871 473 ̄ ̄| 13,143,837,
Shantung,
Tsinán fú,
65,104 28,958,764 515
19,421,081
Shansi,
Taiyuen fu,
55,268 14,004,210253
6,591,724
Honán,
Káifung fú,
65,104
23,037,171 353
14,456,407
Kiángsú,
Nanking,
Ngánhwui, Ngánking fú,
92,661 {
37,843,501
774
18,797,689
34,168,059
6,762,418
Kiangsí,
Nanchang fu,
72,176
30,426,999 421
9,585,412
Fuhkien,
Fuḥchau fú,
53,480
14,777,410,276
2,565,417
Chehkiang, Hangchau f',
39,150
26,256,784 617
9,195,754
Húpeb,
Wúcháng, fú
Hanan,
Changchau fú,
144,740{
37,370,098317
11,337,269
18,652,507!
0,245,759
Shensi,
Sing n fu,
Kansuh,
Lánchau fu,
154,008
10,207,256
5,047,420
164
15,193,135
3,556,626
Sz'chuen,
Chingtú fú,... - 166,800
|21,435,678|128
9,182,933
Yunnan f
Yunnán, Kweichau, Kweiyang fú, 64,554
Kwangtung, Kwangchau fil 79,446 Kwangs', Kweilin fű, 78,250 107,969
19,147,030 214
I. 6,576,658
7,313,895 93
1,748,012
5,561,320 51
1,389,996
5,228,219 82
513,835
1
Total 1,297,999 367,632,907 283 141,119,347
میشه
DEPENDENCIES OF THE CHINESE EMPIRE.
The portions of the Chinese empire beyond the limits of the Eighteen Provinces, though of far greater extent, are comparatively of minor importance. Their vast regions are peopled by races whose languages are mutually unintelligible, and whose tribes are held together under the Chinese sway rather by interest and recip- rocal hostilities or dislike, than by force. European geographers have termed all that space lying north of Tibet to Siberia, and east of the Tsungling to the Pacific, Chinese Tartary; while the coun-