Map of the Middle East, 1941–1942
On 1 July of every year from 1941 to 1942, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 27 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) |
|---|---|
| Saudi Arabia | 1,960,000 |
| 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 | 436,000 |
| Muscat and Oman | 310,000 |
| East Aden Protectorate | 242,000 |
| Syria (France) | 188,000 |
| Ethiopian Empire | 163,000 |
| Yemen | 137,000 |
| Eritrea (UK) | 122,000 |
| Afghanistan | 121,000 |
| Transjordan (UK) | 89,300 |
| Trucial Oman (UK) | 70,900 |
| Aden (UK) | 46,700 |
| British Raj (British India) | 38,900 |
| Mandatory Palestine | 27,000 |
| Greece | 18,400 |
| British Empire | 14,000 |
| Qatar (UK) | 11,200 |
| Lebanon (France) | 10,300 |
| Cyprus | 9,300 |
| Bulgaria | 8,360 |
| French Somaliland (France) | 7,300 |
| Libya (Italy) | 441 |
Open the map on 1 July of
What changed since 1937–1940
Now drawn
Eritrea (UK)
No longer drawn
Eritrea (Italy), Kingdom of Italy
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1941–1942 Map of Europe · 1941–1942 Map of Africa · 1941–1942 Map of South Asia · 1939–1947 Map of East Asia · 1939–1945 Map of Southeast Asia · 1939–1945 Map of Central Asia · 1933–1947 Map of North America · 1941–1948 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1924–1962 Map of South America · 1932–1945 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.