Map of Africa in 300

For 300, IntMap draws the Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (by year), then historical-basemaps — each drawn only where the records before it are silent map of that year: 20 names within Africa. The map also draws 11 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.

NameDrawn area in view (km²)
Khoiasan11,700,000
West African cereal farmers (a description by the source, not a name)5,870,000
Roman Empire1,510,000
Sasanian Empire765,000
Himyarite Kingdom417,000
Kingdom of Kush337,000
Empire of Ghana335,000
Meroe304,000
Lakhmid Kingdom259,000
Rome (Maximian)245,000
Kingdom of Axum134,000
Hadhramaut98,400
Rome (Diocletianus)94,700
Blemmyes88,900
Hadramaut49,400
Kingdom of Armenia13,600
Kingdom of Adiabene13,300
Guanches9,080
Rome (Galerius)7,300
Axum5,090

What changed since 200

Now drawn

Sasanian Empire, Empire of Ghana, Lakhmid Kingdom, Rome (Maximian), Rome (Diocletianus), Rome (Galerius)

No longer drawn

Parthian Empire, Sabaeans, Kingdom of Osroene, Kingdom of Gordyene

The same date elsewhere

World map · 300 Map of Europe · 300 Map of the Middle East · 300 Map of South Asia · 300 Map of East Asia · 300 Map of Southeast Asia · 300 Map of Central Asia · 300 Map of North America · 300 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 300 Map of South America · 300 Map of Oceania · 300

Source and method

Borders and names: 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 + aourednik/historical-basemaps (github.com/aourednik/historical-basemaps) · GPL-3.0 · adapted by IntMap: each sheet before 1886 less the ground OpenHistoricalMap and Cliopatria state at that sheet's year.

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.

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