Map source

The online map of affected housing by province in China in 2016 comes from the Atlas of China's Natural Disasters in 2016. This map was edited by the Office of the National Disaster Reduction Commission, the Disaster Relief Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the National Disaster Reduction Center of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and was published by China Map Publishing House.

The Atlas of China's Natural Disasters in 2016 is the sixth volume of the Atlas of China's Natural Disasters series. In terms of layout design, it continues the concept of Atlas of Natural Disasters 2011-2015 in China, continues to adopt the current international popular simplicity style, and fully uses composite colors and combined symbol expression methods combining the characteristics of natural disasters, so as to have both the readability of the content, the aesthetics of the overall layout, and the objectivity of information transmission. In terms of content setting, in addition to the traditional analysis of disaster situations and temporal and spatial characteristics, an attempt to analyze the disaster situation, monthly disaster situation distribution characteristics, and relative loss index in key regions of the “Belt and Road” has also been added.

Map description

In each province of the map, the purple sector represents the reverse loss of houses. The larger the sector, the more serious the reverse loss of houses.

In the map, the large sector (light purple) in each province indicates damaged houses, and the small sector (dark purple) indicates collapsed houses.

Data on Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao are temporarily unavailable.