Map of Central Asia in 1 BC

For 1 BC, IntMap draws the Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (by year), then historical-basemaps — each drawn only where the records before it are silent map of that year: 10 names within Central Asia. The map also draws 3 outlines here that the source gives no name.

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)
Parthian Empire776,000
Han Dynasty628,000
Xiongnu606,000
Yuezhi413,000
Wusun194,000
Great Yuan51,300
Paleo-Siberian hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name)44,700
Kingdom of Armenia38,100
Caucasian Albania35,700
Armenia13,500

What changed since 100 BC

Now drawn

Han Dynasty, Wusun, Kingdom of Armenia, Caucasian Albania, Armenia

No longer drawn

Scythians, Saces, Indo-Scythians, Sarmates, Zhangzhung Kingdom, minor states, Parthia, Indo-Greeks

The same date elsewhere

World map · 1 BC Map of Europe · 1 BC Map of the Middle East · 1 BC Map of Africa · 1 BC Map of South Asia · 1 BC Map of East Asia · 1 BC Map of Southeast Asia · 1 BC Map of North America · 1 BC Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1 BC Map of South America · 1 BC Map of Oceania · 1 BC

Source and method

Borders and names: 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 46°E–90°E, 35°N–56°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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