Map of the Middle East, 1926–1932
On 1 July of every year from 1926 to 1932, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 28 names within the Middle East. The borders come from CShapes 2.0 (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) |
|---|---|
| Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd | 1,630,000 |
| Imperial State of Iran | 1,620,000 |
| Anglo-Egyptian Sudan | 1,410,000 |
| Kingdom of Egypt | 998,000 |
| Turkey | 781,000 |
| Soviet Union | 586,000 |
| Iraq (UK) | 436,000 |
| British Empire | 320,000 |
| Muscat and Oman | 310,000 |
| Syria (France) | 188,000 |
| Ethiopian Empire | 163,000 |
| Yemen | 137,000 |
| Eritrea (Italy) | 122,000 |
| Afghanistan | 121,000 |
| Transjordan (UK) | 89,300 |
| Trucial Oman (UK) | 70,900 |
| North Yemen | 49,500 |
| British Raj (British India) | 38,900 |
| Mandatory Palestine | 27,000 |
| British Africa | 20,800 |
| Greece | 18,400 |
| Qatar (UK) | 11,200 |
| Lebanon (France) | 10,300 |
| Cyprus | 9,300 |
| Bulgaria | 8,360 |
| French Somaliland (France) | 7,300 |
| Kingdom of Italy | 2,170 |
| Libya (Italy) | 417 |
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What changed since 1924–1925
Now drawn
Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd, Imperial State of Iran
No longer drawn
Persia, Emirate of Nejd, Kingdom of Hejaz
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1926 Map of Europe · 1926 Map of Africa · 1926–1930 Map of South Asia · 1926–1936 Map of East Asia · 1924–1936 Map of Southeast Asia · 1924–1936 Map of Central Asia · 1926–1932 Map of North America · 1924–1940 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1924–1962 Map of South America · 1924–1930 Map of Oceania · 1924–1948
Source and method
Borders and names: CShapes 2.0 (Schvitz et al. 2022, icr.ethz.ch/data/cshapes) · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 + 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.
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.