Map of Africa in 1916
On 1 July 1916, IntMap’s historical map draws 73 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 |
| Algeria (France) | 2,450,000 |
| Belgian Congo (Belgium) | 2,340,000 |
| French Sudan (France) | 1,740,000 |
| Ottoman Empire | 1,540,000 |
| Egypt (UK) | 1,520,000 |
| Angola (Portugal) | 1,250,000 |
| Chad (France) | 1,230,000 |
| Union of South Africa | 1,220,000 |
| Niger (France) | 1,190,000 |
| Ethiopian Empire | 1,130,000 |
| German East Africa | 996,000 |
| Libya (Italy) | 884,000 |
| Nigeria (UK) | 867,000 |
| Mauritania (France) | 829,000 |
| South West Africa (South Africa) | 827,000 |
| Kamerun | 804,000 |
| Mozambique (Portugal) | 790,000 |
| Northern Rhodesia (UK) | 755,000 |
| British East Africa (UK) | 639,000 |
| Madagascar (France) | 598,000 |
| Bechuanaland (UK) | 580,000 |
| Ubangi-Shari (France) | 498,000 |
| Persia | 463,000 |
| Emirate of Nejd | 411,000 |
| Southern Rhodesia (UK) | 391,000 |
| Italian Somaliland | 373,000 |
| Morocco (France) | 351,000 |
| Cote d'Ivoire (France) | 323,000 |
| Uganda (UK) | 284,000 |
| Spanish West Africa | 270,000 |
| French Congo (France) | 264,000 |
| Emirate of Jabal Shammar | 260,000 |
| French Guinea (France) | 246,000 |
| Gabon (France) | 228,000 |
| Aden Protectorate | 226,000 |
| British Raj (British India) | 219,000 |
| Gold Coast (UK) | 213,000 |
| Senegal (France) | 197,000 |
| 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 |
| German Togoland | 84,100 |
| Sierra Leone (UK) | 72,900 |
| Spanish Morocco | 53,300 |
| British Empire | 41,400 |
| Greece | 34,500 |
| Portuguese Guinea (Portugal) | 33,600 |
| Basutoland (UK) | 30,600 |
| Spanish Guinea (Spain) | 27,200 |
| Kingdom of Hejaz | 26,200 |
| Russian Empire | 25,300 |
| Kingdom of Italy | 25,100 |
| Protectorate of Kuwait | 22,200 |
| French Somaliland (France) | 21,600 |
| Swaziland (UK) | 17,100 |
| Portugal | 13,700 |
| Gambia (UK) | 10,900 |
| Cyprus | 9,300 |
| Sultanate of Lahej | 5,980 |
| Zanzibar Protectorate | 5,780 |
| Colony of Seychelles | 2,750 |
| Sultanate of Zanzibar | 2,600 |
| Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe | 2,560 |
| Protectorate of Bahrain | 2,180 |
| Trucial Oman (UK) | 1,190 |
| Saint Helena Crown Colony | 507 |
| Malta | 292 |
| Muscat and Oman | <1 |
What changed since 1915
Now drawn
South West Africa (South Africa), Kingdom of Hejaz
No longer drawn
German South-West Africa
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1916 Map of Europe · 1915–1917 Map of the Middle East · 1916 Map of South Asia · 1913–1917 Map of East Asia · 1915–1917 Map of Southeast Asia · 1915–1918 Map of Central Asia · 1913–1917 Map of North America · 1899–1917 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1904–1916 Map of South America · 1904–1923 Map of Oceania · 1916
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.