Map of the Middle East, 1887–1889
On 1 July of every year from 1887 to 1889, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 25 names within the Middle East. The borders come from CShapes 2.0 (day by day), then OpenHistoricalMap (day by day), then Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (by year) — 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 | 2,140,000 |
| Persia | 1,620,000 |
| Mahdist State | 1,260,000 |
| Egypt (UK) | 1,120,000 |
| Russian Empire | 548,000 |
| Muscat and Oman | 310,000 |
| British Raj (British India) | 280,000 |
| Emirate of Nejd | 266,000 |
| Aden Protectorate | 247,000 |
| Emirate of Jabal Shammar | 222,000 |
| Ethiopian Empire | 138,000 |
| Afghanistan | 121,000 |
| Trucial States | 80,900 |
| British Empire | 72,900 |
| Khanate of Khiva | 56,000 |
| British Colonial Empire | 40,900 |
| British Africa | 30,000 |
| Eritrea (Italy) | 19,300 |
| Emirate of Bukhara | 7,620 |
| French Somaliland (France) | 7,300 |
| Sultanate of Lahej | 5,980 |
| Bulgaria | 2,840 |
| Protectorate of Bahrain | 2,180 |
| Greece | 1,010 |
| Majeerteen Sultanate | 55.6 |
Open the map on 1 July of
What changed since 1886
Now drawn
none
No longer drawn
Sultanate of Qishn and Socotra
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1887 Map of Europe · 1886–1889 Map of Africa · 1887 Map of South Asia · 1887 Map of East Asia · 1887–1893 Map of Southeast Asia · 1887 Map of Central Asia · 1886–1911 Map of North America · 1886–1893 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1886–1898 Map of South America · 1886–1889 Map of Oceania · 1886–1888
Source and method
Borders and names: CShapes 2.0 (Schvitz et al. 2022, icr.ethz.ch/data/cshapes) · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 + OpenHistoricalMap (openhistoricalmap.org) · CC0 1.0 · adapted by IntMap: the admin_level=2 relations in force from 1886, less the ground CShapes states on its own dates + 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 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.