The authorities of Thua Thien–Hue province will position maps demonstrating Vietnam’s sovereignty over Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagoes at famous and crowded places across the former imperial city of Hue.

Four maps placed on walls of Hue railway station

The maps can be seen at Thai Hoa Palace, Di Luan Duong relic (Revolutionary History Museum), Thua Thien–Hue Culture and Information Centre’s square and Hue railway station, according to Phan Tien Dung, Director of the province’s Department for Culture, Sports and Tourism.

The large-scale maps include “Dai Nam nhat thong toan do” (an 1834 map of Vietnam from the Minh Mang King era), “An Nam dai quoc hoa do” (a map of the great empire of An Nam, 1838), “Hoang trieu truc tinh dia du toan do” (Map of all Chinese provinces published in 1904 by China’s Qing dynasty), and Map of Indochinese weather stations (1940).

All of the maps have captions in Vietnamese, Chinese and English.

VNA