Map of East Asia in 1897
On 1 July 1897, IntMap’s historical map draws 15 names within East Asia. The borders for this date come from CShapes 2.0 (day by day), then OpenHistoricalMap (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.
| Name | Drawn area in view (km²) |
|---|---|
| Qing Empire | 11,100,000 |
| British Raj (British India) | 3,070,000 |
| Russian Empire | 2,930,000 |
| Empire of Japan | 387,000 |
| Korean Empire | 221,000 |
| Laos (France) | 148,000 |
| Vietnam (France) | 148,000 |
| Nepal | 147,000 |
| Siam | 82,900 |
| Bhutan | 39,900 |
| Taiwan (Japan) | 36,200 |
| Philippines (Spain) | 10,100 |
| Afghanistan | 7,500 |
| British Colonial Empire | 2,850 |
| French Settlements in India | 9.48 |
What changed since 1895–1896
Now drawn
Korean Empire
No longer drawn
Joseon
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1897 Map of Europe · 1890–1904 Map of the Middle East · 1892–1897 Map of Africa · 1897 Map of South Asia · 1888–1911 Map of Southeast Asia · 1896–1897 Map of Central Asia · 1886–1911 Map of North America · 1894–1898 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1886–1898 Map of South America · 1890–1903 Map of Oceania · 1894–1897
Source and method
Borders and names: CShapes 2.0 (Schvitz et al. 2022, icr.ethz.ch/data/cshapes) · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 + OpenHistoricalMap (openhistoricalmap.org) · CC0 1.0 · adapted by IntMap: the admin_level=2 relations in force from 1886, less the ground CShapes states on its own dates + 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 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.