Map of Central America and the Caribbean, 1850–1851
On 1 July of every year from 1850 to 1851, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 32 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.
| Name | Drawn area in view (km²) |
|---|---|
| Mexico | 2,110,000 |
| United States | 1,190,000 |
| State of Venezuela | 599,000 |
| New Granada | 305,000 |
| New Spain (1823-1854) | 165,000 |
| Captaincy General of Cuba | 152,000 |
| Comancheria | 122,000 |
| Guatemala | 111,000 |
| Nicaragua | 106,000 |
| Honduras | 101,000 |
| Miskito Kingdom | 86,900 |
| Costa Rica | 60,100 |
| Dominican Republic | 56,300 |
| Colony of the Bahamas | 47,200 |
| Empire of Haiti | 35,700 |
| El Salvador | 22,900 |
| Chan Santa Cruz | 20,900 |
| Colony of Jamaica | 14,700 |
| Captaincy General of Puerto Rico | 14,100 |
| Settlement of British Honduras | 10,900 |
| Colony of Trinidad | 7,680 |
| British Windward Islands | 6,910 |
| British Guiana | 6,300 |
| Colony of Guadelupe | 4,380 |
| Colony of the Turks and Caicos Islands | 4,220 |
| Kingdom of the Netherlands | 3,580 |
| Danish West Indies | 1,890 |
| British Bay Islands | 1,690 |
| Colony of Dominica | 1,570 |
| Cayman Islands | 1,520 |
| France | 1,200 |
| Colony of Bermuda | 555 |
Open the map on 1 July of
What changed since 1849
Now drawn
Empire of Haiti
No longer drawn
Republic of Haiti
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1850 Map of Europe · 1850–1851 Map of the Middle East · 1848–1854 Map of Africa · 1850–1851 Map of South Asia · 1850–1852 Map of East Asia · 1850–1854 Map of Southeast Asia · 1848–1852 Map of Central Asia · 1849–1855 Map of North America · 1849–1850 Map of South America · 1849–1852 Map of Oceania · 1847–1850
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.