Map of Central America and the Caribbean, 1844–1845

On 1 July of every year from 1844 to 1845, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 34 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.

NameDrawn area in view (km²)
Mexico2,000,000
United States643,000
State of Venezuela599,000
New Granada305,000
Joint Mexico-Texas Claim257,000
Nicaragua243,000
Republic of Texas194,000
Republic of Yucatán171,000
New Spain (1823-1854)165,000
Captaincy General of Cuba152,000
Comancheria122,000
Honduras120,000
Guatemala111,000
Costa Rica60,100
Dominican Republic56,300
Colony of the Bahamas51,400
Republic of Haiti35,700
Miskito Kingdom30,200
El Salvador22,900
Colony of Jamaica14,700
Captaincy General of Puerto Rico14,100
Settlement of British Honduras10,900
Vice-Royalty of New Spain8,190
Colony of Trinidad7,680
British Windward Islands6,910
British Guiana6,300
Federated Republic of Mexico6,200
Colony of Guadelupe4,380
Danish West Indies1,890
British Bay Islands1,690
Colony of Dominica1,570
Cayman Islands1,520
Martinique1,200
Colony of Bermuda555

Open the map on 1 July of

1844 1845

What changed since 1842–1843

Now drawn

Dominican Republic, Miskito Kingdom

No longer drawn

none

The same date elsewhere

World map · 1844 Map of Europe · 1842–1845 Map of the Middle East · 1840–1845 Map of Africa · 1844–1845 Map of South Asia · 1843–1845 Map of East Asia · 1841–1845 Map of Southeast Asia · 1842–1846 Map of Central Asia · 1840–1845 Map of North America · 1841–1845 Map of South America · 1842–1844 Map of Oceania · 1843–1846

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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