Map of Central America and the Caribbean in 1823

On 1 July 1823, IntMap’s historical map draws 30 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)
Mexican Empire6,050,000
Gran Colombia904,000
United States643,000
Federal Republic of Central America439,000
Republic of Yucatán171,000
New Spain (1823-1854)165,000
Captaincy General of Cuba152,000
Comancheria122,000
Republic of Haiti92,000
First Mexican Empire85,800
Colony of the Bahamas51,400
Colony of Jamaica14,700
Captaincy General of Puerto Rico14,100
British Settlements on the Bay of Honduras10,900
Vice-Royalty of New Spain8,190
Colony of Trinidad7,680
Colony of Guadelupe4,380
Saint Christopher–Nevis–Anguilla–Virgin Islands3,390
Colony of St Vincent and the Grenadines2,030
Antigua-Barbuda-Montserrat Colony1,940
Danish West Indies1,890
Colony of Dominica1,570
Cayman Islands1,520
Colony of Grenada1,480
Colony of Saint Lucia1,360
Martinique1,200
Colony of Barbados1,020
Colony of Tobago1,020
Colony of Demerara-Essequibo974
Colony of Bermuda555

What changed since 1822

Now drawn

Federal Republic of Central America, Republic of Yucatán, New Spain (1823-1854)

No longer drawn

New Spain (1821-1823), British Colonial Empire, British Empire

The same date elsewhere

World map · 1823 Map of Europe · 1820–1826 Map of the Middle East · 1823 Map of Africa · 1823 Map of South Asia · 1823–1824 Map of East Asia · 1823–1827 Map of Southeast Asia · 1822–1823 Map of Central Asia · 1823–1827 Map of North America · 1823 Map of South America · 1823 Map of Oceania · 1822–1825

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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