Map of Central America and the Caribbean in 1830

On 1 July 1830, 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)
Mexico2,730,000
Colombia904,000
United States643,000
Federal Republic of Central America317,000
New Spain (1823-1854)165,000
Captaincy General of Cuba152,000
Comancheria122,000
Republic of Haiti92,000
United Provinces of Central America85,800
Costa Rica60,100
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 1829

Now drawn

Colombia

No longer drawn

Gran Colombia

The same date elsewhere

World map · 1830 Map of Europe · 1830 Map of the Middle East · 1830–1831 Map of Africa · 1830 Map of South Asia · 1828–1832 Map of East Asia · 1830–1832 Map of Southeast Asia · 1830 Map of Central Asia · 1828–1839 Map of North America · 1825–1832 Map of South America · 1830 Map of Oceania · 1829–1831

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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