Search historical place names
Search the historical place names in CHGIS by name, year, type or data source. Names may be written in simplified or traditional Chinese, or a mixture.
At a glance
- place records
- 81,292
- spellings
- 245,042
- data sources
- CHGIS 77,769HGR 761TBRC 2762
- years covered
- 前 763 年 – 9999 年
The range is the earliest and latest year found in the records (the upstream uses 9999 for an open upper bound).
For research use
This service is for research and teaching only. It is not an official CHGIS site and does not represent Harvard University or Fudan University. The data is the version published by the CHGIS project in February 2019; for citation and the latest data please use the original sites (links in the footer).
This website matches names as substrings and treats simplified, traditional and variant forms as equivalent. The data API keeps the behaviour of the Fudan University version: prefix matching, no character conversion. Need the data programmatically? See the API documentation。