The cities visited on the Ming Voyages can be viewed
by region, roughly in the order in which they would be reached by
an outward voyage, although there were some side-trips that were
not taken by all the expeditions.
J. V. G. Mills has an extremely detailed list of places in his
book, and there are links to that list from each section below.
Mills divides the places into the following 18 regions, and it is
perhaps useful to use his divisions here:
Nanjing City & Environs
The Yangzi (Yangtze) or Changjiang River
The Coast of China (from the Yangzi to the Min River)
The Coast of China (from the Min River to the Border)
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Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands
Guangzhou
Hainan Island
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The Coasts of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand, and the East Coast
of Malaya
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Champa
Panduranga
Cape Varella
Siam
Cambodia
Pahang
Pulau Aur
Pulau Condore (Grand Condore)
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Singapore Strait
Southern Borneo, Java, and Sunda Strait
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Brunei
Sulu
Three Islands
Karimata
Java
Langasuka
Janggala
Timor
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The North Coast of Sumatra
The South Coast of Sumatra
Melaka Strait
The West Coasts of Malaya, Thailand and Burma, with the Nicobar
and Andaman Islands
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Nicobar & Andaman Islands
Gelam Islet
Mait
Pulau Sembilan
Langkawi
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The Coasts of East and West Bengal and the East Coast of India
Ceylon
The West Coast of India
The Maldive and Laccadive Islands
The Coast of Baluchistan and Persia
The Coasts and Peninsula of Arabia
The East Coast of Africa
Sources
J. V. G. Mills, Ma Huan, Ying-yai Sheng-lan, "The Overall
Survey of the Ocean's Shores," [1433], Hakluyt Society
(Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1970).
J. V. G. Mills and Roderich Ptak, Hsing-ch'a sheng-lan: The
Overall Survey of the Star Raft by Fei Hsin (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz,
1996).
