Dialect maps of China

It is unfortunate that good dialect maps are hard to find on the web. The ones I have found are not too satisfactory. But here they are:

The best I could find is the following from Crystal, D. 1992’s description of Chinese dialects. But I had to do some doctoring to make the labels more legible. Click here to see it.

The following map has one mis-placed label (the Gan family [spelled as Kan on the map] is much too north and east): http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/images/chinlan2.gif

The following map includes other languages spoken in and around China, but the Chinese dialects are not as finely differentiated:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/china_ling_90.jpg

Provincial administrative maps:

For a map with clear labels for all the provinces, click here.

For a close-up map of the Guangdong province, where three important dialect families are spoken (Cantonese, Chaozhou and Hakka), click here and here.

For a close-up map of the Fujian province, where the important dialect family of Min (Northern and Southern) is spoken, click here and here.

For a close-up map of Taiwan, where southern Min and Hakka are spoken, click here.

For a close-up map of the Jiangsu province, where the important dialect family of Wu (Northern) is spoken, click here.

For a close-up map of the Zhejiang province, where the important dialect family of Wu (Southern) is spoken, click here.