Map of East Asia, 1989–1991
On 1 July of every year from 1989 to 1991, 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 |
| Myanmar | 540,000 |
| Japan | 375,000 |
| Laos | 148,000 |
| 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 1977–1988
Now drawn
Myanmar
No longer drawn
Burma
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1989 Map of Europe · 1979–1990 Map of the Middle East · 1979–1989 Map of Africa · 1984–1989 Map of South Asia · 1989–1991 Map of Southeast Asia · 1989 Map of Central Asia · 1979–1991 Map of North America · 1974–1991 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1982–1995 Map of South America · 1987–1999 Map of Oceania · 1987–1995
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.