Map of Central America and the Caribbean, 1899–1903
On 1 July of every year from 1899 to 1903, 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 (USA) | 9,310 |
| British Guiana | 6,900 |
| Trinidad and Tobago (UK) | 5,240 |
| British Windward Islands | 4,870 |
| 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
What changed since 1886–1898
Now drawn
Puerto Rico (USA)
No longer drawn
Puerto Rico (Spain)
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1899 Map of Europe · 1890–1904 Map of the Middle East · 1899–1901 Map of Africa · 1899 Map of South Asia · 1888–1911 Map of East Asia · 1899–1905 Map of Southeast Asia · 1899–1905 Map of Central Asia · 1886–1911 Map of North America · 1899–1917 Map of South America · 1890–1903 Map of Oceania · 1899
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.