Zheng He's Voyages: Route Map & Timeline

Zheng He: 10 stops from 1405 to 1433, from Nanjing to Calicut.

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Route and timeline

#	Year	Place	What happened
1	1405	Nanjing	On the Yongle Emperor's orders he sails with a vast fleet and over twenty thousand men.
2	1405	Champa	The fleet's first stop, in Champa.
3	1406	Majapahit (Java)	Visits Java.
4	1407	Palembang	Captures the pirate Chen Zuyi.
5	1407	Calicut	Reaches Calicut on India's southwest coast.
6	1409	Ceylon	Sets up a trilingual stele in Ceylon.
7	1411	Malacca	Builds a depot at Malacca as the fleet's staging base.
8	1414	Hormuz	The fourth voyage reaches the Persian Gulf.
9	1418	Malindi	A squadron reaches East Africa and brings back exotic animals.
10	1433	Calicut	On the way home from the seventh voyage, Zheng He dies near Calicut.

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Last updated 9 November 2026. Sources: border data from historical-basemaps, land and rivers from Natural Earth; texts written for Chronica Maps from standard reference works. How we make the maps.