Map of Africa in 1921
On 1 July 1921, IntMap’s historical map draws 85 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 |
| Belgian Congo (Belgium) | 2,340,000 |
| Algeria (France) | 2,320,000 |
| Egypt (UK) | 1,520,000 |
| French Sudan (France) | 1,470,000 |
| 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 |
| Libya (Italy) | 1,010,000 |
| Tanganyika (UK) | 943,000 |
| Nigeria (UK) | 867,000 |
| Mauritania (France) | 829,000 |
| South West Africa (South Africa) | 827,000 |
| Mozambique (Portugal) | 790,000 |
| Northern Rhodesia (UK) | 755,000 |
| Kenya (UK) | 639,000 |
| Ubangi-Shari (France) | 621,000 |
| Madagascar (France) | 598,000 |
| Bechuanaland (UK) | 580,000 |
| Emirate of Nejd | 499,000 |
| Persia | 463,000 |
| Iraq (UK) | 436,000 |
| French Cameroons (France) | 425,000 |
| Southern Rhodesia (UK) | 391,000 |
| Italian Somaliland | 373,000 |
| Morocco (France) | 351,000 |
| French Congo (France) | 346,000 |
| Cote d'Ivoire (France) | 323,000 |
| Kingdom of Hejaz | 292,000 |
| Uganda (UK) | 284,000 |
| Upper Volta (France) | 273,000 |
| Spanish West Africa | 270,000 |
| Gabon (France) | 263,000 |
| French Guinea (France) | 246,000 |
| Emirate of Jabal Shammar | 241,000 |
| Aden Protectorate | 225,000 |
| Ottoman Empire | 217,000 |
| Gold Coast (UK) | 213,000 |
| Senegal (France) | 197,000 |
| Syria (France) | 188,000 |
| British Somaliland (UK) | 173,000 |
| Tunisia (France) | 156,000 |
| Yemen | 137,000 |
| Eritrea (Italy) | 122,000 |
| Nyasaland (UK) | 119,000 |
| Dahomey (France) | 117,000 |
| Asir | 96,600 |
| Liberia | 96,500 |
| British Cameroons | 87,900 |
| Spain | 86,100 |
| Sierra Leone (UK) | 72,900 |
| French West Africa | 57,800 |
| British Empire | 56,700 |
| Spanish Morocco | 53,300 |
| Ruanda-Urundi (Belgium) | 52,600 |
| North Yemen | 49,500 |
| Emirate of Transjordan | 48,800 |
| Transjordan (UK) | 45,200 |
| Greece | 34,500 |
| Portuguese Guinea (Portugal) | 33,600 |
| Basutoland (UK) | 30,600 |
| Spanish Guinea (Spain) | 27,200 |
| Mandatory Palestine | 27,000 |
| German Togoland | 26,700 |
| Kingdom of Italy | 25,100 |
| Protectorate of Kuwait | 22,200 |
| French Somaliland (France) | 21,600 |
| Swaziland (UK) | 17,100 |
| Portugal | 13,700 |
| Qatar (UK) | 11,200 |
| Gambia (UK) | 10,900 |
| Lebanon (France) | 10,300 |
| Cyprus | 9,300 |
| Sultanate of Lahej | 5,970 |
| Tanganyika Territory | 5,780 |
| Zanzibar Protectorate | 5,780 |
| Colony of Seychelles | 2,750 |
| Sultanate of Zanzibar | 2,600 |
| Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe | 2,560 |
| Trucial Oman (UK) | 1,190 |
| Saint Helena Crown Colony | 507 |
| Malta | 292 |
| Muscat and Oman | <1 |
What changed since 1920
Now drawn
Kenya (UK), Emirate of Transjordan
No longer drawn
British East Africa (UK), French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon, French Third Republic
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1921 Map of Europe · 1921–1922 Map of the Middle East · 1921 Map of South Asia · 1921–1922 Map of East Asia · 1921–1922 Map of Southeast Asia · 1919–1923 Map of Central Asia · 1921–1922 Map of North America · 1918–1922 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1917–1923 Map of South America · 1904–1923 Map of Oceania · 1920–1921
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.