Map of Central America and the Caribbean in 1846
On 1 July 1846, IntMap’s historical map draws 33 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.
| Name | Drawn area in view (km²) |
|---|---|
| Mexico | 2,000,000 |
| United States | 1,220,000 |
| State of Venezuela | 599,000 |
| New Granada | 305,000 |
| Republic of Yucatán | 171,000 |
| New Spain (1823-1854) | 165,000 |
| Captaincy General of Cuba | 152,000 |
| Comancheria | 122,000 |
| Honduras | 114,000 |
| Guatemala | 111,000 |
| Nicaragua | 106,000 |
| Costa Rica | 60,100 |
| Dominican Republic | 56,300 |
| Colony of the Bahamas | 51,400 |
| Republic of Haiti | 35,700 |
| Miskito Kingdom | 30,200 |
| El Salvador | 22,900 |
| Colony of Jamaica | 14,700 |
| Captaincy General of Puerto Rico | 14,100 |
| Settlement of British Honduras | 10,900 |
| Vice-Royalty of New Spain | 8,190 |
| Colony of Trinidad | 7,680 |
| British Windward Islands | 6,910 |
| British Guiana | 6,300 |
| British Colonial Empire | 5,660 |
| British Empire | 5,640 |
| Colony of Guadelupe | 4,380 |
| Danish West Indies | 1,890 |
| British Bay Islands | 1,690 |
| Colony of Dominica | 1,570 |
| Cayman Islands | 1,520 |
| Martinique | 1,200 |
| Colony of Bermuda | 555 |
What changed since 1844–1845
Now drawn
British Colonial Empire, British Empire
No longer drawn
Joint Mexico-Texas Claim, Republic of Texas, Federated Republic of Mexico
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1846 Map of Europe · 1846 Map of the Middle East · 1846 Map of Africa · 1846 Map of South Asia · 1846 Map of East Asia · 1846 Map of Southeast Asia · 1842–1846 Map of Central Asia · 1846–1847 Map of North America · 1846 Map of South America · 1845–1846 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.