Map of the Middle East, 1840–1845
On 1 July of every year from 1840 to 1845, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 31 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 4 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 | 2,800,000 |
| Persia | 1,640,000 |
| Turco-Egyptian Sudan | 1,070,000 |
| Muhammad Ali dynasty | 703,000 |
| Emirate of Nejd | 525,000 |
| Nejd | 410,000 |
| Khanate of Khiva | 404,000 |
| Russian Empire | 161,000 |
| Ethiopian Empire | 123,000 |
| Emirate of Kabul | 121,000 |
| Omani Empire | 118,000 |
| Sultanate of Qishn and Socotra | 90,500 |
| Emirate of Jabal Shammar | 84,400 |
| Trucial States | 80,900 |
| Sultanate of Oman | 68,900 |
| Imamate of Yemen | 42,900 |
| British Empire | 38,900 |
| Egypt | 35,600 |
| Bahrain | 33,600 |
| Khanate of Kalat | 18,700 |
| Yemen | 15,800 |
| Kazakh Khanate | 13,100 |
| Ethiopia | 11,500 |
| Oman | 11,300 |
| Emirate of Bukhara | 8,740 |
| Sultanate of Lahej | 8,120 |
| Kingdom of Greece | 6,480 |
| Shilluk Kingdom | 5,490 |
| Company Raj | 2,500 |
| Haushabi Sultanate | 1,860 |
| Majeerteen Sultanate | 55.1 |
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What changed since 1839
Now drawn
Emirate of Jabal Shammar, British Empire, Bahrain
No longer drawn
Talpur Dynasty
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1840 Map of Europe · 1839–1840 Map of Africa · 1840 Map of South Asia · 1840–1842 Map of East Asia · 1840 Map of Southeast Asia · 1840 Map of Central Asia · 1840–1845 Map of North America · 1840 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1840 Map of South America · 1840 Map of Oceania · 1840
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.