In 1719, a group of Qing officials and European missionaries presented an atlas to the Kangxi emperor (r.1661–1722). It covered not only the 15 Chinese provinces, but also Northeast China, Mongolia, parts of Siberia, parts of Xinjiang, Tibet, and even Korea. This atlas, known in Chinese as Huangyu quanlan tu 皇輿全覽圖 or ‘Overview maps of the imperial territories’, constituted a milestone in the history of cartography because it was the result of the largest mapping endeavor based on exact measurements that the world had ever seen. Yet, little is known about the different editions of these maps, so that key questions regarding the production of cartographic material incited by the project have remained unanswered. The basis for the atlas were the imperially commissioned land surveys that were officially initiated in 1708 and took nearly a decade to complete. This paper explores the different versions of the resulting atlases, all of which were produced at the Qing court, leading to further adaptations in later decades and the inclusion of reduced maps in imperially commissioned compilations.