In the context of the 28th International Conference on the History of Cartography (ICHC 2019) of the Commission on the History of Cartography (ICA), a workshop on “Case Studies from the Lowlands, Europe and the World over the last 500 years” takes places, moderated by Dr Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann and Prof Dr Yang Yulei 楊雨蕾, project directors of ‘Translation Terroirs’.