Map of the Middle East, 1953–1955
On 1 July of every year from 1953 to 1955, 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) |
|---|---|
| Saudi Arabia | 1,960,000 |
| Imperial State of Iran | 1,620,000 |
| Anglo-Egyptian Sudan | 1,410,000 |
| Egypt | 998,000 |
| Turkey | 781,000 |
| Soviet Union | 586,000 |
| Iraq | 436,000 |
| Muscat and Oman | 310,000 |
| Ethiopia (incl. Eritrea) | 284,000 |
| East Aden Protectorate | 242,000 |
| Syria | 188,000 |
| Yemen | 137,000 |
| Afghanistan | 121,000 |
| Jordan | 89,300 |
| Trucial Oman (UK) | 70,900 |
| Aden (UK) | 46,700 |
| Pakistan (incl. East Pakistan) | 38,900 |
| Israel | 20,800 |
| Greece | 18,400 |
| British Empire | 14,000 |
| Qatar (UK) | 11,200 |
| Lebanon | 10,300 |
| Cyprus | 9,300 |
| Bulgaria | 8,360 |
| French Somaliland (France) | 7,300 |
| West Bank (Jordan) | 5,880 |
| Libya | 441 |
| Gaza (Egypt) | 382 |
Open the map on 1 July of
What changed since 1952
Now drawn
Egypt, Ethiopia (incl. Eritrea)
No longer drawn
Kingdom of Egypt, Ethiopian Empire, Eritrea (UK)
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1953 Map of Europe · 1950–1955 Map of Africa · 1953 Map of South Asia · 1951–1964 Map of East Asia · 1953 Map of Southeast Asia · 1953 Map of Central Asia · 1951–1971 Map of North America · 1949–1958 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1924–1962 Map of South America · 1946–1962 Map of Oceania · 1950–1959
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.