Map of East Asia, 1859–1866

On 1 July of every year from 1859 to 1866, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 22 names within East 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)
Qing12,600,000
British Raj (British India)2,580,000
Russian Empire1,900,000
Tokugawa Shogunate495,000
Burma419,000
Joseon268,000
Rattanakosin Kingdom Mandala189,000
Đại Nam186,000
Nepal148,000
British Empire67,400
Khanate of Kokand52,700
Bhutan39,200
Manipur State22,400
Captaincy General of the Philippines16,700
Spanish Philippines15,700
Kingdom of Luang Phrabang10,500
Ryukyu Kingdom10,500
Emirate of Afghanistan7,540
Bahawalpur State3,940
Chiangmai3,310
Portuguese India406
British Hong Kong131

Open the map on 1 July of

1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866

What changed since 1856–1858

Now drawn

British Raj (British India)

No longer drawn

Company Raj, Talpur Dynasty

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 Southeast Asia · 1859–1861 Map of Central Asia · 1859–1873 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 73°E–150°E, 18°N–54°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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