Map of Africa, 1700–1701

On 1 July of every year from 1700 to 1701, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 74 names within Africa. The borders come from OpenHistoricalMap (day by day), then Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (by year), then historical-basemaps — each drawn only where the records before it are silent. The map also draws 6 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)
Ottoman Empire3,800,000
Morocco978,000
Kingdom of Imerina627,000
Funj Sultanate618,000
Ethiopian Empire590,000
Regency of Algiers462,000
Safavid Dynasty460,000
Oromo416,000
Alawi Sultanate392,000
Hausa States350,000
Luba345,000
Bornu Empire340,000
Sultanate of Darfur296,000
Wadai Empire281,000
Lunda263,000
Spain122,000
Majeerteen Sultanate115,000
Bornu-Kanem112,000
Qasimids107,000
Hadramaut106,000
Rozwi106,000
Darfur99,800
Mossi States93,900
Benin90,100
Akan88,000
Congo78,200
Portuguese East Africa60,500
Oyo56,500
Portuguese Empire53,800
Rozvi52,600
Ethiopia46,800
Kingdom of Mutapa45,800
Oyo Empire43,800
Sultanate of Qishn and Socotra42,700
Kingdom of Rwanda40,000
Thovhela35,300
Dutch Cape Colony29,000
Republic of Venice26,900
Kingdom of Burundi26,900
Dutch Republic25,700
Kingdom of Sicily25,500
Yarubid dynasty24,700
Wadai23,100
Kingdom of Lunda20,700
Kingdom of Jolof20,500
Kingdom of Dahomey20,400
Bundu18,900
Awsa17,900
Kingdom of Saloum17,200
Shilluk Kingdom16,800
Kingdom of Portugal14,300
Kingdom of Cayor14,100
Kingdom of Niani11,700
Kingdom of Baol8,170
Delagoa Bay7,640
Danish Gold Coast6,910
Kingdom of Kakongo6,050
Portuguese Guinea6,050
Kingdom of Waalo5,570
Kingdom of Wuli5,410
Dutch Gold Coast4,240
French Senegal4,040
Kingdom of Ngoyo3,920
Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe2,560
Kingdom of Sine2,320
Sultanate of Ndzuwani2,180
Sultanate of Maore1,620
Knights Hospitaller925
Monastic State of the Order of Malta925
Saint Helena Colony508
Naples230
Mahra207
Kingdom of Spain92.7
Spanish Empire92.7

Open the map on 1 July of

1700 1701

What changed since 1690–1699

Now drawn

Thovhela, Yarubid dynasty

No longer drawn

none

The same date elsewhere

World map · 1700–1701 Map of Europe · 1699–1701 Map of the Middle East · 1696–1705 Map of South Asia · 1700–1706 Map of East Asia · 1699–1703 Map of Southeast Asia · 1700–1701 Map of Central Asia · 1689–1705 Map of North America · 1700–1701 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1697–1703 Map of South America · 1697–1703 Map of Oceania · 1697–1703

Source and method

Borders and names: OpenHistoricalMap (openhistoricalmap.org) · CC0 1.0 + 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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