Directory_and_Chronicle_1845 — Page 669

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-