Map of Central Asia, 1849–1855

On 1 July of every year from 1849 to 1855, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 12 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)
Russian Empire3,260,000
Qing2,260,000
Khanate of Khiva797,000
Persia407,000
Khanate of Kokand299,000
Emirate of Bukhara243,000
Emirate of Kabul203,000
Talpur Dynasty43,200
Company Raj35,800
British Empire22,600
Ottoman Empire898
Emirate of Afghanistan92.4

Open the map on 1 July of

1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855

What changed since 1848

Now drawn

Company Raj, British Empire

No longer drawn

Kashmir and Jammu

The same date elsewhere

World map · 1849 Map of Europe · 1849 Map of the Middle East · 1848–1854 Map of Africa · 1849 Map of South Asia · 1849 Map of East Asia · 1849 Map of Southeast Asia · 1848–1852 Map of North America · 1849–1850 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1849 Map of South America · 1849–1852 Map of Oceania · 1847–1850

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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