Map of Africa in 100 BC

For 100 BC, IntMap draws the Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (by year), then historical-basemaps — each drawn only where the records before it are silent map of that year: 30 names within Africa. The map also draws 8 outlines here that the source gives no name.

Names on the map

As the map labels them, largest first by the area of the outline drawn inside this view. Areas are of the drawn outline, rounded, and approximate.

NameDrawn area in view (km²)
Khoiasan11,700,000
West African cereal farmers (a description by the source, not a name)6,000,000
Parthian Empire921,000
Ptolemaic Kingdom575,000
Kingdom of Kush337,000
Kingdom of Numidia309,000
Meroe278,000
Mauretania268,000
Roman Republic252,000
Minaeans215,000
Numidia143,000
Nabataeans127,000
Qataban124,000
Cyrenaica117,000
Seleucid Kingdom111,000
Seleucid Empire91,700
Nabatean Kingdom90,400
Blemmyes88,900
Hadhramaut86,500
Himyarite Kingdom73,900
Maan63,300
Greek City-States55,700
Hadramaut49,800
Sabaeans35,300
Kingdom of Cappadocia21,300
Kingdom of Pontus19,300
Saba18,400
Judea15,600
Guanches9,080
Kingdom of Armenia4,060

What changed since 200 BC

Now drawn

Parthian Empire, Kingdom of Numidia, Numidia, Nabataeans, Cyrenaica, Himyarite Kingdom, Kingdom of Pontus, Judea, Kingdom of Armenia

No longer drawn

Saharan Pastoral Nomads, Arabs, Kingdom of Syphax, Carthage, Atropatene, Kingdom of Gala, Achaean League, Macedon and Hellenic League, Rome, Antigonid Macedonia, Kingdom of Pergamon, Greco-Bactrian Kingdom

The same date elsewhere

World map · 100 BC Map of Europe · 100 BC Map of the Middle East · 100 BC Map of South Asia · 100 BC Map of East Asia · 100 BC Map of Southeast Asia · 100 BC Map of Central Asia · 100 BC Map of North America · 100 BC Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 100 BC Map of South America · 100 BC Map of Oceania · 100 BC

Source and method

Borders and names: Cliopatria v0.2.1 (Seshat Global History Databank, github.com/Seshat-Global-History-Databank/cliopatria) · CC BY 4.0 · adapted by IntMap: simplified, BC years made astronomical, and the ground OpenHistoricalMap (1689–1885, and from 1886 where CShapes is silent) and CShapes (1886–2019) state removed on their own dates + aourednik/historical-basemaps (github.com/aourednik/historical-basemaps) · GPL-3.0 · adapted by IntMap: each sheet before 1886 less the ground OpenHistoricalMap and Cliopatria state at that sheet's year.

Listed: every name whose outline IntMap draws inside 20°W–52°E, 36°S–38°N on this date, with the name the map writes on it. The list is worked out when the site is built, from the same records and the same code the map uses, so it says what the map shows — not more. Names are the source’s own, translated where the source or IntMap’s name table has a translation.

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