First philippine map
First individual map of the Philippines, already within its established historical borders.
- Date
- 1598
- Mapmaker / publisher
- Petrus Kaerius
- Place
- the Philippines
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 1,560 × 1,155 pixels
Public domain
Reason: a US government work.
This status rests on the map's publication history, as researched by Wikimedia Commons. Check it before commercial use.
Read from: Commons licence category: PD US; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
Credit line
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