Map of East Asia in 1946

On 1 July 1946, IntMap’s historical map draws 18 names within East 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)
Republic of China7,540,000
Soviet Union3,100,000
British Raj (British India)2,610,000
Tibet1,810,000
Mongolia1,560,000
Burma (UK)540,000
Empire of Japan372,000
Laos (France)148,000
Vietnam (France)148,000
Nepal147,000
Korea (USSR)123,000
Korea (USA)98,300
Thailand82,900
Bhutan39,900
Philippines (USA)10,100
Afghanistan7,500
Ryukyu Islands (USA)3,170
British Colonial Empire2,850

What changed since 1939–1945

Now drawn

Korea (USSR), Korea (USA), Ryukyu Islands (USA), British Colonial Empire

No longer drawn

Korea (Japan), Taiwan (Japan), Karafuto (Japan)

The same date elsewhere

World map · 1946 Map of Europe · 1946–1949 Map of the Middle East · 1946 Map of Africa · 1946 Map of South Asia · 1939–1947 Map of Southeast Asia · 1946 Map of Central Asia · 1933–1947 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 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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