Map of Central America and the Caribbean in 1802

On 1 July 1802, IntMap’s historical map draws 31 names within Central America and the Caribbean. The borders for this date 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.

NameDrawn area in view (km²)
New Spain (1795-1803)3,660,000
Inner Provinces1,390,000
Viceroyalty of New Granada903,000
Captaincy General of Venezuela591,000
Captaincy General of Cuba487,000
Captaincy General of Guatemala439,000
United States237,000
New Galicia230,000
Intendency of Yucatán198,000
Spanish Empire172,000
Colony of Louisiana133,000
French Louisiana133,000
Comancheria122,000
Saint-Domingue92,000
Colony of the Bahamas51,400
Colony of Jamaica14,700
Captaincy General of Puerto Rico14,100
British Settlements on the Bay of Honduras10,900
Colony of Trinidad7,680
British Guiana5,330
Colony of Guadelupe4,380
Colony of St Vincent and the Grenadines2,030
Danish West Indies1,890
Colony of Dominica1,570
Cayman Islands1,520
Colony of Grenada1,480
Colony of Saint Lucia1,360
Colony of Barbados1,020
Colony of Tobago1,020
Kolonie Essequebo974
Colony of Bermuda555

What changed since 1801

Now drawn

Kolonie Essequebo

No longer drawn

Colony of Essequibo

The same date elsewhere

World map · 1802 Map of Europe · 1802 Map of the Middle East · 1802 Map of Africa · 1801–1802 Map of South Asia · 1800–1802 Map of East Asia · 1802 Map of Southeast Asia · 1802 Map of Central Asia · 1802–1805 Map of North America · 1801–1802 Map of South America · 1802–1803 Map of Oceania · 1800–1803

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.

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