Vice President of the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam Nguyen Hung Son (third, right) presents the map to Simina Badica from the House of European History (Photo: VNA) The special map, which is 84cm long and 45cm wide, was drawn by Jean Louis Taberd of France and published in India's Serampore in 1838. It depicts the archipelago of “Paracel seu Cat Vang” - Hoang Sa islands within Vietnam’s waters territory. The “Paracel seu Cat Vang” showed in the map affirmed that the archipelago is Cat Vang, also called Hoang Sa by then Vietnamese.It was the largest and fullest map of Vietnam at that time. Its name was written in three languages – Han (Chinese characters), Vietnamese national scripts and Latin scripts. All landmarks on the map, including those in China, Laos and Cambodia, are written in Vietnamese scripts, while the footnotes are written in Vietnamese, Latin and French characters. Speaking to the Vietnam News Agency, Son, who is also Director-General of the East Sea Inst
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