Map of Central America and the Caribbean, 1886–1898
On 1 July of every year from 1886 to 1898, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 27 names within Central America and the Caribbean. The borders come from CShapes 2.0 (day by day), then OpenHistoricalMap (day by day), then Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (by year) — 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 | 1,970,000 |
| United States | 1,190,000 |
| Venezuela | 532,000 |
| Colombia | 278,000 |
| Nicaragua | 129,000 |
| Honduras | 113,000 |
| Cuba | 111,000 |
| Guatemala | 109,000 |
| Costa Rica | 51,600 |
| Dominican Republic | 48,700 |
| Haiti | 27,500 |
| British Honduras (UK) | 22,300 |
| British Guiana (UK) | 21,000 |
| El Salvador | 20,700 |
| Bahamas (UK) | 12,800 |
| Jamaica (UK) | 11,200 |
| Puerto Rico (Spain) | 9,310 |
| British Guiana | 6,900 |
| British Windward Islands | 5,890 |
| Trinidad and Tobago (UK) | 5,220 |
| Colony of Guadelupe | 4,740 |
| Danish West Indies | 1,890 |
| Guadeloupe (France) | 1,660 |
| Cayman Islands | 1,520 |
| Martinique (France) | 1,200 |
| Colony of Bermuda | 557 |
| Barbados (UK) | 457 |
Open the map on 1 July of
1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898
What changed since 1885
Now drawn
Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti, British Honduras (UK), British Guiana (UK), Bahamas (UK), Jamaica (UK), Puerto Rico (Spain), Trinidad and Tobago (UK), Guadeloupe (France), Martinique (France), Barbados (UK)
No longer drawn
United States of Venezuela, New Spain (1865-1899), Captaincy General of Cuba, Colony of the Bahamas, Republic of Haiti, British Honduras Colony, Mosquito Reserve, Chan Santa Cruz, Colony of Jamaica, Captaincy General of Puerto Rico, Colony of Trinidad, Kingdom of the Netherlands, French Third Republic, Colony of Barbados
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1886 Map of Europe · 1886–1889 Map of the Middle East · 1886 Map of Africa · 1886 Map of South Asia · 1886 Map of East Asia · 1886 Map of Southeast Asia · 1886 Map of Central Asia · 1886–1911 Map of North America · 1886–1893 Map of South America · 1886–1889 Map of Oceania · 1886–1888
Source and method
Borders and names: CShapes 2.0 (Schvitz et al. 2022, icr.ethz.ch/data/cshapes) · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 + OpenHistoricalMap (openhistoricalmap.org) · CC0 1.0 · adapted by IntMap: the admin_level=2 relations in force from 1886, less the ground CShapes states on its own dates + 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.
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.