Map of Africa in 1911
On 1 July 1911, IntMap’s historical map draws 75 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 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 | 2,590,000 |
| Ottoman Empire | 2,500,000 |
| Algeria (France) | 2,450,000 |
| Belgian Congo (Belgium) | 2,340,000 |
| French Sudan (France) | 1,740,000 |
| Egypt (UK) | 1,520,000 |
| Chad (France) | 1,280,000 |
| Angola (Portugal) | 1,250,000 |
| Union of South Africa | 1,220,000 |
| Niger (France) | 1,190,000 |
| Ethiopian Empire | 1,130,000 |
| German East Africa | 996,000 |
| Mauritania (France) | 922,000 |
| German South-West Africa | 827,000 |
| Mozambique (Portugal) | 790,000 |
| Northern Nigeria (UK) | 663,000 |
| British East Africa (UK) | 639,000 |
| 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 |
| North-Eastern Rhodesia (UK) | 287,000 |
| Uganda (UK) | 284,000 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| British Empire | 41,400 |
| Portuguese Guinea (Portugal) | 33,600 |
| Basutoland (UK) | 30,600 |
| Kingdom of Spain | 27,400 |
| Spanish Empire | 27,400 |
| Spanish Guinea (Spain) | 27,200 |
| Alawi Sultanate | 26,200 |
| Kingdom of Italy | 22,900 |
| Greece | 22,800 |
| French Somaliland (France) | 21,600 |
| Swaziland (UK) | 17,100 |
| 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 |
| Saint Helena Crown Colony | 507 |
| Malta | 292 |
| Muscat and Oman | <1 |
What changed since 1910
Now drawn
Portugal
No longer drawn
Kingdom of Portugal
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1911 Map of Europe · 1911 Map of the Middle East · 1902–1911 Map of South Asia · 1888–1911 Map of East Asia · 1911 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 · 1908–1914
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.