Yu Qin (, 1284–1333) was a Chinese geographer of the
Yuan dynasty
The Yuan dynasty (), officially the Great Yuan (; xng, , , literally "Great Yuan State"), was a Mongol-led imperial dynasty of China and a successor state to the Mongol Empire after its division. It was established by Kublai, the fift ...
. In 1319, he was appointed the official of
Jinan to resolve the starvation problem caused by bad harvesting. He started to write the geography book ''
Qi Sheng'' during this period, which was the oldest known geography book about
Shandong Province.
Chinese geographers
1284 births
1333 deaths
Yuan dynasty politicians
Political office-holders in Shandong
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