Map of East Asia, 1906–1910

On 1 July of every year from 1906 to 1910, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 17 names within East Asia. The borders 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.

NameDrawn area in view (km²)
Qing Empire11,100,000
British Raj (British India)3,070,000
Russian Empire2,890,000
Empire of Japan387,000
Korean Empire221,000
Laos (France)148,000
Vietnam (France)148,000
Nepal147,000
Siam82,900
Bhutan39,900
Taiwan (Japan)36,200
Karafuto (Japan)33,800
Philippines (USA)10,100
Afghanistan7,500
British Hong Kong2,900
Kwangchowan2,120
French Settlements in India9.48

Open the map on 1 July of

1906 1907 1908 1909 1910

What changed since 1899–1905

Now drawn

Karafuto (Japan)

No longer drawn

none

The same date elsewhere

World map · 1906–1907 Map of Europe · 1906–1908 Map of the Middle East · 1902–1911 Map of Africa · 1906–1908 Map of South Asia · 1888–1911 Map of Southeast Asia · 1906–1911 Map of Central Asia · 1886–1911 Map of North America · 1899–1917 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1904–1916 Map of South America · 1904–1923 Map of Oceania · 1906–1907

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.

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