Map of Central Asia, 1820–1821

On 1 July of every year from 1820 to 1821, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 11 names within Central Asia. The borders come from OpenHistoricalMap (day by day), then Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (by year), then historical-basemaps — 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)
Kazakh Khanate2,510,000
Qing2,260,000
Russian Empire1,130,000
Khanate of Khiva454,000
Persia420,000
Emirate of Bukhara349,000
Durrani Empire272,000
Khanate of Kokand159,000
Qajar Dynasty19,200
Ottoman Empire898
Sikh Empire249

Open the map on 1 July of

1820 1821

What changed since 1814–1819

Now drawn

Sikh Empire

No longer drawn

none

The same date elsewhere

World map · 1820 Map of Europe · 1820–1826 Map of the Middle East · 1820–1821 Map of Africa · 1820 Map of South Asia · 1820–1821 Map of East Asia · 1820–1821 Map of Southeast Asia · 1820–1821 Map of North America · 1819–1820 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1820 Map of South America · 1820 Map of Oceania · 1819–1821

Source and method

Borders and names: OpenHistoricalMap (openhistoricalmap.org) · CC0 1.0 + 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 + 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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