Map of the Middle East, 1968–1969
On 1 July of every year from 1968 to 1969, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 25 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.
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 |
| Sudan (incl. South Sudan) | 1,410,000 |
| Egypt | 938,000 |
| Turkey | 781,000 |
| Soviet Union | 586,000 |
| Iraq | 436,000 |
| Muscat and Oman | 310,000 |
| South Yemen | 288,000 |
| Ethiopia (incl. Eritrea) | 284,000 |
| Syria | 187,000 |
| North Yemen | 137,000 |
| Afghanistan | 121,000 |
| Jordan | 89,300 |
| Israel | 88,900 |
| Trucial Oman (UK) | 70,900 |
| Pakistan (incl. East Pakistan) | 38,900 |
| Greece | 18,400 |
| Kuwait | 17,000 |
| Qatar (UK) | 11,200 |
| Lebanon | 10,300 |
| Cyprus | 9,300 |
| Bulgaria | 8,360 |
| French Somaliland (France) | 7,300 |
| Libya | 441 |
Open the map on 1 July of
What changed since 1967
Now drawn
South Yemen
No longer drawn
Federation of South Arabia
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1968 Map of Europe · 1963–1975 Map of Africa · 1968 Map of South Asia · 1965–1971 Map of East Asia · 1954–1971 Map of Southeast Asia · 1966–1969 Map of Central Asia · 1951–1971 Map of North America · 1959–1973 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1967–1968 Map of South America · 1967–1975 Map of Oceania · 1963–1969
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.