Map of Africa in 1883
On 1 July 1883, IntMap’s historical map draws 131 names within Africa. The borders for this date 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) |
|---|---|
| Khedivate of Egypt | 3,010,000 |
| Ottoman Empire | 2,650,000 |
| Upper River | 1,260,000 |
| Sokoto Caliphate | 1,180,000 |
| Arabia | 905,000 |
| Province of Mozambique | 811,000 |
| Kingdom of Imerina | 626,000 |
| French Congo | 615,000 |
| Cape Colony | 610,000 |
| Persia | 469,000 |
| French Republic | 462,000 |
| Alawi Sultanate | 392,000 |
| Wadai Empire | 379,000 |
| Ethiopian Empire | 342,000 |
| Emirate of Nejd | 325,000 |
| Sultanate of Utetera | 305,000 |
| Transvaal Colony | 284,000 |
| Sultinate of Zanzibar | 271,000 |
| Bornu Empire | 228,000 |
| Aden Protectorate | 227,000 |
| Mossi States | 207,000 |
| Lozi | 188,000 |
| Yeke | 187,000 |
| Kong Empire | 180,000 |
| Mirambo Unyanyembe Ukimbu | 169,000 |
| French protectorate of Tunisia | 165,000 |
| French Africa | 142,000 |
| French Third Republic | 142,000 |
| Kanem-Bornu | 142,000 |
| Emirate of Jabal Shammar | 136,000 |
| Sultanate of Hobyo | 134,000 |
| Egypt | 134,000 |
| Orange Free State | 131,000 |
| Dendi Kingdom | 120,000 |
| 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 |
| Gold Coast Colony | 65,400 |
| Harer (Egypt) | 62,800 |
| Ovimbundu | 61,000 |
| Kuba | 60,900 |
| Ndebele | 59,700 |
| Bunyoro | 58,900 |
| Buganda | 58,500 |
| Teke | 53,300 |
| Angola (Portugal) | 52,900 |
| Portuguese Guinea | 51,800 |
| British Empire | 49,500 |
| Transvaal | 48,600 |
| Morocco | 47,800 |
| Colony of Natal | 46,900 |
| Kingdom of Portugal | 45,200 |
| Sultanate of Qishn and Socotra | 42,700 |
| British Colonial Empire | 42,600 |
| Kingdom of Greece | 40,900 |
| Kingdom of Rwanda | 40,000 |
| Nguni | 35,400 |
| Sultanate of Damagaram | 32,700 |
| Portuguese Empire | 31,000 |
| 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 |
| Ivory Coast | 14,900 |
| Ato trading confederacy | 14,400 |
| Kingdom of Cayor | 14,100 |
| Spanish Guinea | 13,600 |
| Swaziland | 12,700 |
| Cyprus Protectorate | 12,400 |
| Calabar | 12,300 |
| Benin | 12,100 |
| Gambia Colony and Protectorate | 11,700 |
| Kingdom of Niani | 11,700 |
| Griqualand West | 10,900 |
| Algeria (FR) | 9,200 |
| Spanish Posessions on the Gulf of Guinea | 8,920 |
| Sultanate of Lahej | 8,120 |
| Mozambique | 7,850 |
| Obock Colony | 7,600 |
| Sultanate of Zanzibar | 7,260 |
| Opobo | 7,000 |
| Trucial Oman | 6,720 |
| British Cape Colony | 6,120 |
| Rwanda | 6,070 |
| Kingdom of Kakongo | 6,050 |
| Kingdom of Wuli | 5,410 |
| Natal | 5,180 |
| Kingdom of Ngoyo | 3,920 |
| Senegal (FR) | 3,610 |
| Cotonou | 3,260 |
| Tukular Caliphate | 3,050 |
| British Mauritius | 2,750 |
| Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe | 2,560 |
| Trucial States | 2,370 |
| Kingdom of Sine | 2,320 |
| Protectorate of Bahrain | 2,180 |
| German Africa | 1,940 |
| 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 |
| Alawi Sheikhdom | 538 |
| Saint Helena Crown Colony | 508 |
What changed since 1882
Now drawn
French Congo
No longer drawn
Bateke Protectorate
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1883 Map of Europe · 1882–1885 Map of the Middle East · 1882–1883 Map of South Asia · 1880–1884 Map of East Asia · 1880–1883 Map of Southeast Asia · 1883 Map of Central Asia · 1879–1885 Map of North America · 1881–1885 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1874–1884 Map of South America · 1880–1884 Map of Oceania · 1880–1883
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.