Stanford Geospatial CenterThis polygon shapefile is an index to the map series "二百万分一太平洋周域輿地圖 (航空圖) -- 1:2,000,000 Taiheiyō shūiki yochizu (kōkūzu)" (1942-1943). Stanford University Libraries holds a large collection of Japanese military and imperial maps, referred to as gaihōzu, or "maps of outer lands." These maps were produced starting in the early Meiji (1868-1912) era and the end of World War II by the Land Survey Department of the General Staff Headquarters, the former Japanese Army. The Library is in the process of scanning and making available all of the maps in the collection.This layer provides an index map that can be used to locate individual scanned map sheets.Shapefilehttps://purl.stanford.edu/ff620qk8599engStanford Digital RepositoryPublicTopographic mapsIndex mapsGrids (Cartography)Military mapsMilitaryBoundaries1:2,000,000 Taiheiyō shūiki yochizu (kōkūzu), Maps Index 二百万分一太平洋周域輿地圖 (航空圖)DatasetsEast AsiaSouth East AsiaSouth AsiaOceaniaRussian Far East1942-1943Stanford