Map of Africa, 1906–1908
On 1 July of every year from 1906 to 1908, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 79 names within Africa. The borders 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 2 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) |
|---|---|
| Anglo-Egyptian Sudan | 2,550,000 |
| Ottoman Empire | 2,500,000 |
| Algeria (France) | 2,450,000 |
| Congo Free State | 2,390,000 |
| French Sudan (France) | 1,740,000 |
| Egypt (UK) | 1,520,000 |
| Chad (France) | 1,280,000 |
| Angola (Portugal) | 1,250,000 |
| Niger (France) | 1,190,000 |
| German East Africa | 996,000 |
| Ethiopian Empire | 995,000 |
| Mauritania (France) | 922,000 |
| German South-West Africa | 827,000 |
| Mozambique (Portugal) | 790,000 |
| British East Africa (UK) | 776,000 |
| Cape Colony | 717,000 |
| Northern Nigeria (UK) | 663,000 |
| Ubangi-Shari (France) | 621,000 |
| Madagascar (France) | 596,000 |
| Bechuanaland (UK) | 580,000 |
| Kamerun | 513,000 |
| North-Western Rhodesia (UK) | 468,000 |
| Persia | 463,000 |
| Southern Rhodesia (UK) | 391,000 |
| Emirate of Nejd | 374,000 |
| Italian Somaliland | 373,000 |
| Morocco | 351,000 |
| French Congo (France) | 346,000 |
| Cote d'Ivoire (France) | 323,000 |
| Transvaal | 302,000 |
| North-Eastern Rhodesia (UK) | 287,000 |
| Uganda (UK) | 270,000 |
| Gabon (France) | 263,000 |
| French Guinea (France) | 246,000 |
| Aden Protectorate | 226,000 |
| British Raj (British India) | 219,000 |
| Gold Coast (UK) | 213,000 |
| Southern Nigeria (UK) | 204,000 |
| Senegal (France) | 197,000 |
| Spanish West Africa | 177,000 |
| British Somaliland (UK) | 173,000 |
| Tunisia (France) | 156,000 |
| Orange Free State | 130,000 |
| Eritrea (Italy) | 122,000 |
| Nyasaland (UK) | 119,000 |
| Dahomey (France) | 117,000 |
| Liberia | 96,500 |
| Spain | 86,100 |
| Emirate of Jabal Shammar | 84,400 |
| German Togoland | 84,100 |
| Sierra Leone (UK) | 72,900 |
| Natal | 72,500 |
| British Empire | 41,400 |
| Portuguese Guinea (Portugal) | 33,600 |
| Alawi Sultanate | 31,200 |
| Basutoland (UK) | 30,600 |
| Spanish Guinea (Spain) | 27,200 |
| Kingdom of Spain | 26,200 |
| Spanish Empire | 26,200 |
| 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 |
| Colony of Seychelles | 2,750 |
| 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 |
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What changed since 1905
Now drawn
Ubangi-Shari (France)
No longer drawn
Lagos Colony (UK)
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1906–1907 Map of Europe · 1906–1908 Map of the Middle East · 1902–1911 Map of South Asia · 1888–1911 Map of East Asia · 1906–1910 Map of Southeast Asia · 1906–1911 Map of Central Asia · 1886–1911 Map of North America · 1899–1917 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1904–1916 Map of South America · 1904–1923 Map of Oceania · 1906–1907
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.