Map of Central America and the Caribbean, 1874–1884
On 1 July of every year from 1874 to 1884, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 28 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 | 2,030,000 |
| United States | 1,260,000 |
| United States of Venezuela | 599,000 |
| Colombia | 305,000 |
| New Spain (1865-1899) | 166,000 |
| Captaincy General of Cuba | 152,000 |
| Honduras | 120,000 |
| Nicaragua | 106,000 |
| Guatemala | 95,200 |
| Costa Rica | 60,100 |
| Dominican Republic | 56,300 |
| Colony of the Bahamas | 47,200 |
| Republic of Haiti | 35,700 |
| British Honduras Colony | 31,700 |
| Mosquito Reserve | 30,200 |
| El Salvador | 22,900 |
| Chan Santa Cruz | 20,900 |
| Colony of Jamaica | 18,900 |
| Captaincy General of Puerto Rico | 12,800 |
| British Guiana | 7,870 |
| Colony of Trinidad | 7,680 |
| British Windward Islands | 6,910 |
| Colony of Guadelupe | 4,380 |
| Kingdom of the Netherlands | 3,580 |
| Danish West Indies | 1,890 |
| Cayman Islands | 1,520 |
| French Third Republic | 1,200 |
| Colony of Bermuda | 555 |
Open the map on 1 July of
What changed since 1872–1873
Now drawn
none
No longer drawn
Colony of the Turks and Caicos Islands
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1874 Map of Europe · 1871–1877 Map of the Middle East · 1874 Map of Africa · 1873–1874 Map of South Asia · 1873–1876 Map of East Asia · 1873–1876 Map of Southeast Asia · 1874–1878 Map of Central Asia · 1874–1876 Map of North America · 1873–1876 Map of South America · 1864–1879 Map of Oceania · 1871–1874
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.