MANCHURIA AND KOREA 



THE magnificent war map of 

 Manchuria and Korea, 36 by 42 

 inches, which is published as a 

 Supplement to this number of the Na- 

 tional Geographic Magazine, was 

 prepared in the Military Information 

 Division of the War Department from 

 the latest explorations and surveys. 

 Through the courtesy of the War De- 

 partment, and in particular of Captain 

 H. C. Hale, Acting Chief of the Divis- 

 ion, the National Geographic Society 

 is able to publish a large edition of the 

 map. A key to the Supplement is pub- 

 lished on the opposite page. 



Manchuria corresponds in latitude to 

 Manitoba, North Dakota, South Da- 

 kota, Minnesota, and Nebraska. Its 

 area of 362,310 square miles is only 

 10,000 square miles less than the com- 

 bined area of these great grain states. 

 It is nearly three times greater than 

 California, and is as big as Texas, Ala- 

 bama, and Louisiana combined. Consul 

 Miller in the preceding article describes 

 the vast undeveloped resources of Man- 

 churia. In the northern part of the 

 province are thousands of square miles 

 of rich wheat land entirely untouched. 

 Manchuria has a possible wheat area as 

 great as that of the United States. 



Unlike China proper, Manchuria is 

 not densely populated except in the 

 south. The estimate of its population 

 ranges from 10 to 20 millions. Korea 

 is the same size as Kansas and slightly 

 smaller than Minnesota, but, unlike 

 Kansas and Minnesota, it is exceed- 

 ingly mountainous. It has a population 

 estimated at from 8,000,000 to 16,000, 

 000, and its area is 80,000 square miles. 



The mass of names given on the Sup- 

 plement in Southern Manchuria, and 

 especially in Korea, shows how densely 

 populated are certain sections of these 

 countries, and yet their density of pop- 

 ulation is not to be compared to that of 

 Japan. Japan has a population of 

 45,000,000, increasing rapidly and liv- 

 ing in a space no larger than the State 



of Montana ; but only apart of her area 

 of 150,000 square miles can be culti- 

 vated. The 45,000,000 Japanese are 

 practically supported by what they c an 

 raise from an area one-third as large as 

 the State of Illinois, less than 20,000 

 square miles. 



The U. S. Consul at Vladivostok, 

 writing just before the outbreak of the 

 war, said : 



' ' Owing to the low third-class rates, 

 the traveling from western Europe to 

 the Far East by the usual trains has be- 

 come exceedingly cheap. The cost of 

 transporting a third-class passenger 

 from Hamburg to Shanghai by the 

 Siberian and Manchurian railroads 

 amounts to $51.50, inclusive of food, 

 whereas the cost of a sea voyage is 

 about $154.50. The German Govern- 

 ment consequently has determined to 

 transport German soldiers to the Far 

 East and return by way of Siberia." 



The following authorities may be read 

 with profit at the present time : 



"The Russian Advance." A. J. Beveridge. 

 Harpers. 



"The Yankees of the East." W. B. Curtis. 

 Stone & Kimball. 



"Handbook of Modern Japan." E. W. 

 Clement. A. C. McClurg & Co. 



"Korea." A.Hamilton. Scribner's. 



"Korea and Her Neighbors." Mrs. I. L. 

 Bishop. F. H. Revell Co. 



"Manchuria: Its People, Resources, and 

 Recent History." Hosie. London, 1901. 



"China." J.H.Wilson. D. Appleton &Co. 



"China — the Long-Lived Empire." E. R. 

 Scidmore. Century Co. 



"Village Life in China." A. H. Smith. 



"Great Siberian Railway." M. M. Shoe- 

 maker. Putnam's. 



" Guide to Great Siberian Railway." Min- 

 istry of Ways of Communication. St Peters- 

 burg. 



"An American Engineer in China." W. B. 

 Parsons. McClure, Phillips & Co. 



" The Awakening of the East." P. Leroy- 

 Beaulieu. McClure, Phillips & Co. 



"The Mastery of the Pacific." Archibald 

 Colquhoun. Macmillan Co. 



"Problems of the Far East." Lord Curzon. 

 Longmans Green & Co. 



"American Diplomacy in the Orient." J.W. 

 Foster. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 



