Map of the Middle East in 1920
On 1 July 1920, IntMap’s historical map draws 36 names within the Middle East. The borders for this date 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) |
|---|---|
| Persia | 1,620,000 |
| Anglo-Egyptian Sudan | 1,410,000 |
| Ottoman Empire | 1,220,000 |
| Egypt (UK) | 998,000 |
| Soviet Russia (RSFSR) | 578,000 |
| Emirate of Nejd | 457,000 |
| Muscat and Oman | 310,000 |
| Iraq (UK) | 275,000 |
| Aden Protectorate | 248,000 |
| Emirate of Jabal Shammar | 245,000 |
| Syria (France) | 182,000 |
| Ethiopian Empire | 163,000 |
| Yemen | 137,000 |
| Eritrea (Italy) | 122,000 |
| Afghanistan | 121,000 |
| Kingdom of Hejaz | 79,700 |
| Trucial Oman (UK) | 70,900 |
| British Empire | 56,700 |
| Transjordan (UK) | 45,200 |
| North Yemen | 43,100 |
| British Raj (British India) | 38,900 |
| Asir | 38,000 |
| Mandatory Palestine | 27,000 |
| Protectorate of Kuwait | 22,200 |
| Greece | 18,400 |
| Qatar (UK) | 11,100 |
| Lebanon (France) | 10,300 |
| Cyprus | 9,300 |
| Bulgaria | 8,360 |
| Emirate of Bukhara | 7,620 |
| French Somaliland (France) | 7,300 |
| French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon | 6,510 |
| French Third Republic | 6,510 |
| Sultanate of Lahej | 5,970 |
| Kingdom of Italy | 2,170 |
| Libya (Italy) | 373 |
What changed since 1919
Now drawn
Iraq (UK), Syria (France), Transjordan (UK), Mandatory Palestine, Lebanon (France), French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon, French Third Republic
No longer drawn
Khanate of Khiva, British Africa
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1920 Map of Europe · 1920 Map of Africa · 1920 Map of South Asia · 1918–1920 Map of East Asia · 1919–1920 Map of Southeast Asia · 1919–1923 Map of Central Asia · 1920 Map of North America · 1918–1922 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1917–1923 Map of South America · 1904–1923 Map of Oceania · 1920–1921
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.