Map of Africa, 1931–1932
On 1 July of every year from 1931 to 1932, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 74 names within Africa. The borders come from CShapes 2.0 (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 |
| Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd | 1,600,000 |
| Libya (Italy) | 1,530,000 |
| 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 |
| Kingdom of Egypt | 1,000,000 |
| 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 |
| Ubangi-Shari (France) | 621,000 |
| Madagascar (France) | 598,000 |
| Kenya (UK) | 585,000 |
| Bechuanaland (UK) | 580,000 |
| Italian Somaliland | 467,000 |
| Imperial State of Iran | 463,000 |
| Iraq (UK) | 436,000 |
| French Cameroons (France) | 425,000 |
| Southern Rhodesia (UK) | 391,000 |
| Morocco (France) | 351,000 |
| French Congo (France) | 346,000 |
| Cote d'Ivoire (France) | 323,000 |
| British Empire | 292,000 |
| Upper Volta (France) | 273,000 |
| Spanish West Africa | 270,000 |
| Gabon (France) | 263,000 |
| French Guinea (France) | 246,000 |
| Uganda (UK) | 243,000 |
| Turkey | 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 |
| Liberia | 96,500 |
| Transjordan (UK) | 89,300 |
| British Cameroons | 87,900 |
| Spanish Republic | 86,100 |
| Sierra Leone (UK) | 72,900 |
| French Togoland (France) | 57,300 |
| Spanish Morocco | 53,300 |
| Ruanda-Urundi (Belgium) | 52,600 |
| North Yemen | 49,500 |
| Greece | 34,500 |
| Portuguese Guinea (Portugal) | 33,600 |
| Basutoland (UK) | 30,600 |
| Spanish Guinea (Spain) | 27,200 |
| Mandatory Palestine | 27,000 |
| British Togoland | 26,700 |
| Kingdom of Italy | 25,100 |
| French Somaliland (France) | 21,600 |
| Swaziland (UK) | 17,100 |
| British Africa | 15,300 |
| Portugal | 13,700 |
| Qatar (UK) | 11,200 |
| Gambia (UK) | 10,900 |
| Lebanon (France) | 10,300 |
| Cyprus | 9,300 |
| Sultanate of Zanzibar | 2,690 |
| Trucial Oman (UK) | 1,190 |
| Malta | 292 |
| Muscat and Oman | <1 |
Open the map on 1 July of
What changed since 1926–1930
Now drawn
Spanish Republic
No longer drawn
Spain
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1931 Map of Europe · 1931–1932 Map of the Middle East · 1926–1932 Map of South Asia · 1926–1936 Map of East Asia · 1924–1936 Map of Southeast Asia · 1924–1936 Map of Central Asia · 1926–1932 Map of North America · 1924–1940 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1924–1962 Map of South America · 1931 Map of Oceania · 1924–1948
Source and method
Borders and names: CShapes 2.0 (Schvitz et al. 2022, icr.ethz.ch/data/cshapes) · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 + 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.