Visiting China

Great Wall of China

Below are instructions for how to print Google maps in Chinese. This can be very helpful when you are traveling in China and plan to take taxis, as most taxi drivers in China cannot read English.

1. Type your destination in English in the search box on maps.google.com.

2. At the top right of the map, there’s a link that says “link”. Click this.

3. Copy the link from there.

4. Paste the link somewhere and look for the part that says “ll” in the link. It should have two numbers with a comma separator. That’s your latitude / longitude.

5. Copy just the numbers from the “ll” section. It should look something like “39.928168,116.400661″.

6. Go to maps.google.cn.

7. Paste the numbers into the search box.

8. Click the printer logo to print the map.

Google Maps is available for China. Google offers free maps of China inside Google Maps. These include street and road maps of major and minor cities, towns, and rural areas of China. You can see Google maps of China here:

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