Map of Central America and the Caribbean, 1924–1962
On 1 July of every year from 1924 to 1962, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 22 names within Central America and the Caribbean. The borders come from CShapes 2.0 (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 | 545,000 |
| Colombia | 203,000 |
| Nicaragua | 129,000 |
| Honduras | 113,000 |
| Cuba | 111,000 |
| Guatemala | 109,000 |
| Panama | 75,500 |
| 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 |
| Trinidad and Tobago (UK) | 5,240 |
| Guadeloupe (France) | 1,700 |
| Martinique (France) | 1,200 |
| Barbados (UK) | 457 |
Open the map on 1 July of
1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962
What changed since 1917–1923
Now drawn
none
No longer drawn
British Guiana, British Windward Islands, Colony of Guadelupe, Cayman Islands, Colony of Bermuda
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1924–1925 Map of Europe · 1924–1925 Map of the Middle East · 1924–1925 Map of Africa · 1924–1925 Map of South Asia · 1924–1925 Map of East Asia · 1924–1936 Map of Southeast Asia · 1924–1936 Map of Central Asia · 1924–1925 Map of North America · 1924–1940 Map of South America · 1924–1930 Map of Oceania · 1924–1948
Source and method
Borders and names: CShapes 2.0 (Schvitz et al. 2022, icr.ethz.ch/data/cshapes) · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 + 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.
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.