Google Map scales
Unit - Bar's Length - Scale (approx.)
- 1,000 km 4.5 cm 1:22 M
- 500 km 4.5 cm 1:11 M
- 200 km 3.6 cm 1:5.5 M
- 100 km 3.6 cm 1:2.8 M
- 50 km 3.6 cm 1:1.4 M
- 20 km 2.9 cm 1:690 K
- 10 km 1.9 cm 1:526 K
- 5 km 1.9 cm 1:263 K
- 2 km 1.5 cm 1:133 K
- 1 km 1.5 cm 1:67 K
- 500 m 1.5 cm 1:33 K
- 200 m 1.3 cm 1:15 K
- 20 m 1.8 cm 1:1.1K
The length of the unit called 'li'
Wriggins (1996:224) says that:
* Watters (1904-1905) calculated Xuanzang's "li" as one-fifth of a mile (i.e. 1609 meters/5 = approx. 322 m).
[Watters, Thomas, (trans.). 1904-1905. On Yuang Chwang's Travels in India, 2 vols. London; reprinted 1961, Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal.]
* Stein (1921:15-25) calculated Xuanzang's "li" as one-fifth of a mile.
[Stein, Aurel. 1921. The dessert crossing of Hsuan-Tsang 630 AD., "Indian Antiquary 50 (1921), pp. 15-25.]
* Hook (1982) calculated Xuanzang's "li" as one-third of a mile (i.e. 1609 meters/3 = approx. 536 m)
[Hook, A.B. (ed.). 1982. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.]
and in her own analyses treats one li the way Watters and Stein did, i.e. as an equivalent of the one-fifth of a mile.
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