Map of Africa, 1862–1863
On 1 July of every year from 1862 to 1863, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 128 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 5 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.
| Name | Drawn area in view (km²) |
|---|---|
| Ottoman Empire | 3,680,000 |
| Turco-Egyptian Sudan | 2,060,000 |
| Sokoto Caliphate | 1,200,000 |
| Emirate of Nejd | 964,000 |
| Arabia | 905,000 |
| Province of Mozambique | 811,000 |
| Kingdom of Imerina | 626,000 |
| Cape Colony | 517,000 |
| Second French Empire | 472,000 |
| Persia | 469,000 |
| Alawi Sultanate | 392,000 |
| Wadai Empire | 377,000 |
| Tukular Caliphate | 373,000 |
| Ethiopian Empire | 342,000 |
| Sultanate of Utetera | 305,000 |
| South African Republic | 292,000 |
| Sultinate of Zanzibar | 271,000 |
| Bornu Empire | 228,000 |
| Bights of Biafra and Benin | 207,000 |
| Mossi States | 207,000 |
| Kong Empire | 197,000 |
| Lozi | 188,000 |
| Yeke | 187,000 |
| Mirambo Unyanyembe Ukimbu | 169,000 |
| Kanem-Bornu | 142,000 |
| Muhammad Ali dynasty | 136,000 |
| Egypt | 134,000 |
| Orange Free State | 131,000 |
| Dendi Kingdom | 122,000 |
| Majeerteen Sultanate | 115,000 |
| Borgu States | 114,000 |
| Kingdom of Lunda | 110,000 |
| Ashanti Empire | 104,000 |
| Sultanate of Dar al Kuti | 100,000 |
| Liberia | 99,700 |
| Barotse | 97,600 |
| Spain | 96,800 |
| Lagos Colony | 81,300 |
| Shona | 79,300 |
| Colony of Sierra Leone | 76,500 |
| Lunda | 76,300 |
| Mbailundu | 72,700 |
| Yaka | 67,500 |
| Harer (Egypt) | 62,800 |
| French Africa | 62,100 |
| Ovimbundu | 61,000 |
| Kuba | 60,900 |
| Ndebele | 59,700 |
| Bunyoro | 58,900 |
| Buganda | 58,500 |
| Gold Coast Colony | 56,300 |
| Teke | 56,000 |
| Angola (Portugal) | 52,900 |
| Portuguese Guinea | 51,800 |
| Transvaal | 48,600 |
| Morocco | 47,800 |
| Colony of Natal | 46,900 |
| Senegal (FR) | 46,300 |
| Kingdom of Portugal | 45,200 |
| Wassoulou Empire | 43,200 |
| Imamate of Yemen | 42,900 |
| Sultanate of Qishn and Socotra | 42,700 |
| Kingdom of Rwanda | 40,000 |
| Kingdom of Greece | 38,600 |
| Nguni | 35,400 |
| Sultanate of Damagaram | 32,700 |
| Portuguese Empire | 31,000 |
| British Cape Colony | 30,600 |
| British Empire | 30,600 |
| Futa Jalon | 30,400 |
| Ngwato | 30,000 |
| Kingdom of Burundi | 26,900 |
| Kingdom of Italy | 26,800 |
| Zululand | 25,600 |
| People's Republic of Zanzibar | 24,300 |
| Basutoland | 21,300 |
| Kingdom of Jolof | 20,500 |
| Kingdom of Dahomey | 20,400 |
| Rabih az-Zubayr | 20,300 |
| Gabon | 19,700 |
| Luba | 19,400 |
| Dahomey | 19,200 |
| Congo | 19,000 |
| Bundu | 18,900 |
| Kingdom of Saloum | 17,200 |
| Ivory Coast | 14,900 |
| Ato trading confederacy | 14,400 |
| Kingdom of Cayor | 14,100 |
| Spanish Guinea | 13,600 |
| Swaziland | 12,700 |
| Sultanate of Darfur | 12,700 |
| Calabar | 12,300 |
| Benin | 12,000 |
| Gambia Colony and Protectorate | 11,700 |
| Kingdom of Niani | 11,700 |
| Griqualand West | 10,900 |
| Futa Toro | 9,840 |
| Algeria (FR) | 9,200 |
| Spanish Posessions on the Gulf of Guinea | 8,920 |
| Kingdom of Baol | 8,170 |
| Sultanate of Lahej | 8,120 |
| Mozambique | 7,850 |
| Obock Colony | 7,600 |
| Sultanate of Zanzibar | 7,260 |
| Opobo | 7,000 |
| Trucial Oman | 6,720 |
| Rwanda | 6,070 |
| Kingdom of Kakongo | 6,050 |
| Kingdom of Wuli | 5,410 |
| Natal | 5,180 |
| Kingdom of Ngoyo | 3,920 |
| Cotonou | 3,260 |
| British Mauritius | 2,750 |
| Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe | 2,560 |
| Trucial States | 2,370 |
| Kingdom of Sine | 2,320 |
| United States of the Ionian Islands | 2,290 |
| Territory of Ifni | 1,920 |
| Haushabi Sultanate | 1,860 |
| British Raj (British India) | 1,660 |
| Mayotte | 1,620 |
| Walvis Bay Colony | 1,610 |
| Sultanate of Ndzuwani | 1,260 |
| French Nosy Be | 1,110 |
| Crown Colony of Malta | 925 |
| Sultanate of Mwali | 923 |
| Nosy Boraha | 888 |
| Saint Helena Crown Colony | 508 |
Open the map on 1 July of
What changed since 1861
Now drawn
Bights of Biafra and Benin, Lagos Colony, Obock Colony
No longer drawn
Bight of Benin, Massina Empire, Bight of Biafra, Shilluk Kingdom
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1862 Map of Europe · 1861–1863 Map of the Middle East · 1862–1865 Map of South Asia · 1859–1866 Map of East Asia · 1859–1866 Map of Southeast Asia · 1862–1863 Map of Central Asia · 1859–1873 Map of North America · 1861–1862 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1862 Map of South America · 1862 Map of Oceania · 1860–1863
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.