Map of Central Asia in 1948

On 1 July 1948, IntMap’s historical map draws 10 names within Central Asia. The borders for this date 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)
Soviet Union5,440,000
Republic of China1,320,000
Imperial State of Iran404,000
Afghanistan204,000
Tibet87,000
Kashmir62,200
Pakistan (incl. East Pakistan)29,400
Mongolia23,600
Jammu and Kashmir3,560
Iraq912

What changed since 1933–1947

Now drawn

Kashmir, Pakistan (incl. East Pakistan), Jammu and Kashmir

No longer drawn

British Raj (British India)

The same date elsewhere

World map · 1948 Map of Europe · 1946–1949 Map of the Middle East · 1948 Map of Africa · 1948 Map of South Asia · 1948 Map of East Asia · 1948 Map of Southeast Asia · 1948 Map of North America · 1941–1948 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1924–1962 Map of South America · 1946–1962 Map of Oceania · 1924–1948

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 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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