Map of the Middle East, 1820–1821
On 1 July of every year from 1820 to 1821, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 27 names within the Middle East. The borders come from OpenHistoricalMap (day by day), then Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (by year), then historical-basemaps — each drawn only where the records before it are silent. The map also draws 3 outlines here that the source gives no name.
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) |
|---|---|
| Ottoman Empire | 3,490,000 |
| Persia | 1,680,000 |
| Turco-Egyptian Sudan | 1,070,000 |
| Nejd | 410,000 |
| Khanate of Khiva | 332,000 |
| Durrani Empire | 140,000 |
| Ethiopian Empire | 123,000 |
| Russian Empire | 123,000 |
| Omani Empire | 118,000 |
| Sultanate of Qishn and Socotra | 90,500 |
| Trucial States | 80,900 |
| Emirate of Bukhara | 60,500 |
| Imamate of Yemen | 42,900 |
| Egypt | 35,600 |
| Bahrain | 33,600 |
| Qajar Dynasty | 19,200 |
| Khanate of Kalat | 18,700 |
| Yemen | 15,800 |
| Kazakh Khanate | 13,100 |
| Ethiopia | 11,500 |
| Oman | 11,300 |
| Funj Sultanate | 9,640 |
| Sultanate of Lahej | 9,630 |
| Shilluk Kingdom | 5,490 |
| Sultanate of Darfur | 3,080 |
| Haushabi Sultanate | 1,860 |
| Majeerteen Sultanate | 55.1 |
Open the map on 1 July of
What changed since 1814–1819
Now drawn
Turco-Egyptian Sudan, Trucial States, Bahrain
No longer drawn
Emirate of Diriyah
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1820 Map of Europe · 1820–1826 Map of Africa · 1820 Map of South Asia · 1820–1821 Map of East Asia · 1820–1821 Map of Southeast Asia · 1820–1821 Map of Central Asia · 1820–1821 Map of North America · 1819–1820 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1820 Map of South America · 1820 Map of Oceania · 1819–1821
Source and method
Borders and names: OpenHistoricalMap (openhistoricalmap.org) · CC0 1.0 + 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 + aourednik/historical-basemaps (github.com/aourednik/historical-basemaps) · GPL-3.0 · adapted by IntMap: each sheet before 1886 less the ground OpenHistoricalMap and Cliopatria state at that sheet's year.
Listed: every name whose outline IntMap draws inside 25°E–63°E, 12°N–42°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.