Map of Central Asia, 1859–1873

On 1 July of every year from 1859 to 1873, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 9 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 Empire3,280,000
Qing2,260,000
Khanate of Khiva798,000
Persia407,000
Khanate of Kokand288,000
Emirate of Bukhara243,000
Emirate of Afghanistan203,000
British Raj (British India)95,500
Ottoman Empire898

Open the map on 1 July of

1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873

What changed since 1856–1858

Now drawn

British Raj (British India)

No longer drawn

Talpur Dynasty, Company Raj, British Empire

The same date elsewhere

World map · 1859 Map of Europe · 1853–1859 Map of the Middle East · 1859–1861 Map of Africa · 1859 Map of South Asia · 1859–1866 Map of East Asia · 1859–1866 Map of Southeast Asia · 1859–1861 Map of North America · 1859–1860 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1859 Map of South America · 1858–1860 Map of Oceania · 1859

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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