Map of Africa in 1899
On 1 July 1899, IntMap’s historical map draws 69 names within Africa. The borders for this date come from CShapes 2.0 (day by day), then OpenHistoricalMap (day by day), then Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (by year) — each drawn only where the records before it are silent. The map also draws 3 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) |
|---|---|
| French West Africa | 5,600,000 |
| Anglo-Egyptian Sudan | 2,600,000 |
| Ottoman Empire | 2,500,000 |
| Congo Free State | 2,390,000 |
| French Congo (France) | 2,240,000 |
| Egypt (UK) | 1,520,000 |
| Angola (Portugal) | 1,350,000 |
| Southern Rhodesia (UK) | 1,050,000 |
| German East Africa | 996,000 |
| Ethiopian Empire | 943,000 |
| German South-West Africa | 827,000 |
| Mozambique (Portugal) | 790,000 |
| Northern Nigeria (UK) | 730,000 |
| Cape Colony | 717,000 |
| Emirate of Jabal Shammar | 674,000 |
| British East Africa (UK) | 663,000 |
| Algeria (France) | 656,000 |
| Madagascar (France) | 596,000 |
| Bechuanaland (UK) | 580,000 |
| Kamerun | 513,000 |
| Persia | 463,000 |
| Uganda (UK) | 383,000 |
| Morocco | 375,000 |
| Italian Somaliland | 373,000 |
| Cote d'Ivoire (France) | 323,000 |
| Transvaal | 302,000 |
| Gabon (France) | 263,000 |
| French Guinea (France) | 246,000 |
| Aden Protectorate | 226,000 |
| British Raj (British India) | 219,000 |
| Gold Coast (UK) | 213,000 |
| Senegal (France) | 197,000 |
| Spanish West Africa | 177,000 |
| British Somaliland (UK) | 173,000 |
| Tunisia (France) | 156,000 |
| Southern Nigeria (UK) | 131,000 |
| Orange Free State | 130,000 |
| Eritrea (Italy) | 122,000 |
| Nyasaland (UK) | 119,000 |
| Dahomey (France) | 117,000 |
| Liberia | 96,500 |
| Spain | 86,100 |
| German Togoland | 84,100 |
| Sierra Leone (UK) | 72,900 |
| Natal | 72,500 |
| Lagos Colony (UK) | 72,000 |
| British Empire | 41,400 |
| Portuguese Guinea (Portugal) | 33,600 |
| Basutoland (UK) | 30,600 |
| Spanish Guinea (Spain) | 27,200 |
| Kingdom of Italy | 22,900 |
| Greece | 22,800 |
| French Somaliland (France) | 21,600 |
| Swaziland (UK) | 17,100 |
| Kingdom of Portugal | 13,700 |
| Gambia (UK) | 10,900 |
| Mayotte and Dependencies | 6,400 |
| Sultanate of Lahej | 5,980 |
| Zanzibar Protectorate | 5,780 |
| Protectorate of Kuwait | 5,640 |
| Sultanate of Zanzibar | 2,600 |
| Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe | 2,560 |
| Protectorate of Bahrain | 2,180 |
| Sultanate of Ndzuwani | 1,260 |
| Trucial Oman (UK) | 1,190 |
| Sultanate of Mwali | 924 |
| Saint Helena Crown Colony | 507 |
| Malta | 292 |
| Muscat and Oman | <1 |
What changed since 1898
Now drawn
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Northern Nigeria (UK), Southern Nigeria (UK), Protectorate of Kuwait
No longer drawn
Mahdist State, Sokoto Caliphate, Oil Rivers Protectorate (UK), British Africa, Lagos Colony
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1899 Map of Europe · 1890–1904 Map of the Middle East · 1899–1901 Map of South Asia · 1888–1911 Map of East Asia · 1899–1905 Map of Southeast Asia · 1899–1905 Map of Central Asia · 1886–1911 Map of North America · 1899–1917 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1899–1903 Map of South America · 1890–1903 Map of Oceania · 1899
Source and method
Borders and names: CShapes 2.0 (Schvitz et al. 2022, icr.ethz.ch/data/cshapes) · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 + OpenHistoricalMap (openhistoricalmap.org) · CC0 1.0 · adapted by IntMap: the admin_level=2 relations in force from 1886, less the ground CShapes states on its own dates + 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.
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.