Map of East Asia, 1972–1976
On 1 July of every year from 1972 to 1976, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 20 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) |
|---|---|
| China | 9,370,000 |
| Soviet Union | 3,100,000 |
| India | 2,260,000 |
| Mongolia | 1,560,000 |
| Burma | 540,000 |
| Japan | 375,000 |
| Laos | 148,000 |
| North Vietnam | 148,000 |
| Pakistan | 148,000 |
| Nepal | 147,000 |
| Bangladesh | 139,000 |
| North Korea | 123,000 |
| South Korea | 98,300 |
| Thailand | 82,900 |
| Bhutan | 39,900 |
| Taiwan | 36,200 |
| Philippines | 10,100 |
| Afghanistan | 7,500 |
| British Colonial Empire | 2,850 |
| British Empire | 2,850 |
Open the map on 1 July of
What changed since 1954–1971
Now drawn
Pakistan, Bangladesh
No longer drawn
Pakistan (incl. East Pakistan), Ryukyu Islands (USA)
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1972 Map of Europe · 1963–1975 Map of the Middle East · 1972–1976 Map of Africa · 1972–1974 Map of South Asia · 1972–1976 Map of Southeast Asia · 1972–1974 Map of Central Asia · 1972–1978 Map of North America · 1959–1973 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1969–1973 Map of South America · 1967–1975 Map of Oceania · 1971–1975
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.