Map of East Asia, 1937–1938
On 1 July of every year from 1937 to 1938, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 17 names within East Asia. The borders 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.
| Name | Drawn area in view (km²) |
|---|---|
| Republic of China | 7,500,000 |
| Soviet Union | 3,060,000 |
| British Raj (British India) | 2,610,000 |
| Tibet | 1,810,000 |
| Mongolia | 1,560,000 |
| Burma (UK) | 540,000 |
| Empire of Japan | 380,000 |
| Korea (Japan) | 221,000 |
| Laos (France) | 148,000 |
| Vietnam (France) | 148,000 |
| Nepal | 147,000 |
| Siam | 82,900 |
| Bhutan | 39,900 |
| Taiwan (Japan) | 36,200 |
| Karafuto (Japan) | 33,800 |
| Philippines (USA) | 10,100 |
| Afghanistan | 7,500 |
Open the map on 1 July of
What changed since 1924–1936
Now drawn
Burma (UK)
No longer drawn
none
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1937–1938 Map of Europe · 1937–1938 Map of the Middle East · 1937–1940 Map of Africa · 1937–1938 Map of South Asia · 1937–1938 Map of Southeast Asia · 1937–1938 Map of Central Asia · 1933–1947 Map of North America · 1924–1940 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1924–1962 Map of South America · 1932–1945 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 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.