Map of Africa in 1884
On 1 July 1884, IntMap’s historical map draws 137 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 | 2,980,000 |
| Ottoman Empire | 2,630,000 |
| Upper River | 1,260,000 |
| Sokoto Caliphate | 1,180,000 |
| Arabia | 905,000 |
| German South-West Africa | 816,000 |
| Province of Mozambique | 811,000 |
| Kingdom of Imerina | 626,000 |
| French Congo | 615,000 |
| Cape Colony | 612,000 |
| 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 |
| South African Republic | 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 |
| British Raj (British India) | 164,000 |
| British Somaliland | 162,000 |
| 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 |
| Colony of the Rio de Oro | 122,000 |
| Dendi Kingdom | 120,000 |
| Majeerteen Sultanate | 115,000 |
| Borgu States | 114,000 |
| Oil Rivers Protectorate | 110,000 |
| 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 |
| Togoland Protectorate | 88,300 |
| 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) | 62,600 |
| 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 |
| Colony of Basutoland | 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 |
| Obock and Protectorates of the Somali Coast and Dankils Countries | 23,900 |
| 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 | 12,000 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 1883
Now drawn
German South-West Africa, South African Republic, British Somaliland, Colony of the Rio de Oro, Oil Rivers Protectorate, Togoland Protectorate, Colony of Basutoland, Obock and Protectorates of the Somali Coast and Dankils Countries
No longer drawn
Transvaal Colony, Obock Colony
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1884 Map of Europe · 1882–1885 Map of the Middle East · 1884 Map of South Asia · 1880–1884 Map of East Asia · 1884 Map of Southeast Asia · 1884 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 · 1884–1885
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.