Map of Central America and the Caribbean, 1982–1995

On 1 July of every year from 1982 to 1995, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 28 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.

NameDrawn area in view (km²)
Mexico1,970,000
United States1,190,000
Venezuela545,000
Colombia203,000
Nicaragua129,000
Honduras113,000
Cuba111,000
Guatemala109,000
Panama75,500
Costa Rica51,600
Dominican Republic48,700
Haiti27,500
Belize22,300
Guyana21,000
El Salvador20,700
Bahamas12,800
Jamaica11,200
Puerto Rico (USA)9,310
Trinidad and Tobago5,240
Guadeloupe (France)1,700
Commonwealth of Dominica1,270
Martinique (France)1,200
Saint Lucia835
Antigua and Barbuda666
Saint Vincent641
Grenada529
Saint Kitts520
Barbados457

Open the map on 1 July of

1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995

What changed since 1979–1981

Now drawn

Belize

No longer drawn

British Honduras (UK)

The same date elsewhere

World map · 1982 Map of Europe · 1979–1990 Map of the Middle East · 1979–1989 Map of Africa · 1980–1983 Map of South Asia · 1979–1988 Map of East Asia · 1977–1988 Map of Southeast Asia · 1977–1983 Map of Central Asia · 1979–1991 Map of North America · 1974–1991 Map of South America · 1976–1986 Map of Oceania · 1979–1982

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.

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