Map of Central America and the Caribbean, 1729–1731
On 1 July of every year from 1729 to 1731, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 36 names within Central America and the Caribbean. The borders come from OpenHistoricalMap (day by day), then Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (by year), then historical-basemaps — 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) |
|---|---|
| New Spain (1723-1739) | 4,000,000 |
| Province of Caracas | 591,000 |
| Captaincy General of Guatemala | 443,000 |
| Captaincy General of Cuba | 411,000 |
| Viceroyalty of Peru | 304,000 |
| Viceroyalty of New Granada | 304,000 |
| New France | 266,000 |
| French Louisiana | 266,000 |
| New Galicia | 230,000 |
| Captaincy General of Yucatán | 206,000 |
| Spanish Empire | 181,000 |
| Vice-Royalty of New Spain | 155,000 |
| New Kingdom of León | 63,500 |
| Captaincy General of Santo Domingo | 60,200 |
| Colony of South Carolina | 47,400 |
| Colony of the Bahamas | 47,200 |
| Saint-Domingue | 31,800 |
| Colony of Jamaica | 14,700 |
| Captaincy General of Puerto Rico | 14,100 |
| Colonia Trinidad | 7,680 |
| Mosquito Coast | 6,320 |
| British Guiana | 5,330 |
| Colony of Guadelupe | 4,440 |
| St Vincent and the Grenadines Territory | 2,030 |
| Spanish Bay Islands | 1,690 |
| Colonie de la Dominique | 1,570 |
| Cayman Islands | 1,520 |
| Colony of Grenada | 1,480 |
| Colony of Saint Lucia | 1,360 |
| Martinique | 1,200 |
| Danish West Indies | 1,030 |
| Colony of Barbados | 1,020 |
| Kolonie Essequebo | 974 |
| French Saint Croix | 858 |
| Colony of Bermuda | 555 |
| Saint Barthélemy | 100 |
Open the map on 1 July of
What changed since 1727–1728
Now drawn
Colony of South Carolina
No longer drawn
Province of South Carolina
The same date elsewhere
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Source and method
Borders and names: OpenHistoricalMap (openhistoricalmap.org) · CC0 1.0 + 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 + 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 118°W–59°W, 7°N–33°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.