Map of Africa in 1946
On 1 July 1946, IntMap’s historical map draws 74 names within Africa. The borders for this date 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.
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 | 2,500,000 |
| Belgian Congo (Belgium) | 2,340,000 |
| Algeria (France) | 2,320,000 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1,830,000 |
| Libya (UK) | 1,620,000 |
| French Sudan (France) | 1,310,000 |
| Chad (France) | 1,280,000 |
| Niger (France) | 1,260,000 |
| Angola (Portugal) | 1,250,000 |
| Union of South Africa | 1,220,000 |
| Ethiopian Empire | 1,130,000 |
| Mauritania (France) | 1,040,000 |
| Kingdom of Egypt | 1,000,000 |
| Tanganyika (UK) | 943,000 |
| Nigeria (UK) | 867,000 |
| 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 |
| Cote d'Ivoire (France) | 470,000 |
| Italian Somaliland | 467,000 |
| Imperial State of Iran | 463,000 |
| Iraq | 436,000 |
| French Cameroons (France) | 425,000 |
| Southern Rhodesia (UK) | 391,000 |
| Morocco (France) | 351,000 |
| French Congo (France) | 346,000 |
| Spanish West Africa | 270,000 |
| Gabon (France) | 263,000 |
| French Guinea (France) | 246,000 |
| Uganda (UK) | 243,000 |
| East Aden Protectorate | 218,000 |
| Turkey | 217,000 |
| Gold Coast (UK) | 213,000 |
| Senegal (France) | 197,000 |
| Syria | 188,000 |
| British Somaliland (UK) | 173,000 |
| Tunisia (France) | 156,000 |
| Yemen | 137,000 |
| Eritrea (UK) | 122,000 |
| Nyasaland (UK) | 119,000 |
| Dahomey (France) | 117,000 |
| Liberia | 96,500 |
| Transjordan | 89,300 |
| British Cameroons | 87,900 |
| Francoist Spain | 86,100 |
| Sierra Leone (UK) | 72,900 |
| French Togoland (France) | 57,300 |
| Spanish Morocco | 53,300 |
| Ruanda-Urundi (Belgium) | 52,600 |
| Aden (UK) | 46,700 |
| 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 |
| Italy | 22,900 |
| French Somaliland (France) | 21,600 |
| Swaziland (UK) | 17,100 |
| British Colonial Empire | 15,200 |
| British Empire | 15,200 |
| Portugal | 13,700 |
| Qatar (UK) | 11,200 |
| Gambia (UK) | 10,900 |
| Lebanon | 10,300 |
| Cyprus | 9,300 |
| Sultanate of Zanzibar | 2,690 |
| Trucial Oman (UK) | 1,190 |
| Malta | 292 |
| Muscat and Oman | <1 |
What changed since 1943–1945
Now drawn
Syria, Transjordan, Italy, British Colonial Empire
No longer drawn
Syria (France), Transjordan (UK), Kingdom of Italy, British Africa
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1946 Map of Europe · 1946–1949 Map of the Middle East · 1946 Map of South Asia · 1939–1947 Map of East Asia · 1946 Map of Southeast Asia · 1946 Map of Central Asia · 1933–1947 Map of North America · 1941–1948 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1924–1962 Map of South America · 1946–1962 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.