Map of the Middle East in 1885
On 1 July 1885, IntMap’s historical map draws 31 names within the Middle East. The borders for this date 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 2 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 | 2,250,000 |
| Persia | 1,640,000 |
| Mahdist State | 1,260,000 |
| British Empire | 1,210,000 |
| British Africa | 1,160,000 |
| Arabia | 1,140,000 |
| Russian Empire | 638,000 |
| Emirate of Nejd | 268,000 |
| Aden Protectorate | 251,000 |
| Emirate of Jabal Shammar | 222,000 |
| Ethiopian Empire | 149,000 |
| Emirate of Afghanistan | 121,000 |
| Protectorate of Afghanistan | 121,000 |
| Egypt | 118,000 |
| Sultanate of Muscat and Oman | 117,000 |
| Sultanate of Qishn and Socotra | 90,500 |
| Sultanate of Oman | 85,600 |
| Trucial States | 80,900 |
| British Colonial Empire | 45,600 |
| British Raj (British India) | 41,300 |
| Khanate of Khiva (1873-1920) | 27,100 |
| Cyprus Protectorate | 12,400 |
| Emirate of Bukhara | 8,740 |
| Sultanate of Lahej | 8,120 |
| Obock and Protectorates of the Somali Coast and Dankils Countries | 7,920 |
| Trucial Oman | 7,050 |
| Kingdom of Greece | 6,480 |
| Protectorate of Bahrain | 2,180 |
| Haushabi Sultanate | 1,860 |
| Alawi Sheikhdom | 538 |
| Majeerteen Sultanate | 55.1 |
What changed since 1884
Now drawn
Mahdist State, British Africa
No longer drawn
Khedivate of Egypt
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1885 Map of Europe · 1882–1885 Map of Africa · 1885 Map of South Asia · 1885 Map of East Asia · 1885 Map of Southeast Asia · 1885 Map of Central Asia · 1879–1885 Map of North America · 1881–1885 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1885 Map of South America · 1885 Map of Oceania · 1884–1885
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.