Map of the Middle East in 1991
On 1 July 1991, IntMap’s historical map draws 25 names within the Middle East. The borders for this date 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 |
| Iran | 1,620,000 |
| Sudan (incl. South Sudan) | 1,410,000 |
| Egypt | 998,000 |
| Turkey | 781,000 |
| Soviet Union | 586,000 |
| Iraq | 436,000 |
| Yemen | 426,000 |
| Oman | 310,000 |
| Ethiopia (incl. Eritrea) | 284,000 |
| Syria | 187,000 |
| Afghanistan | 121,000 |
| Jordan | 89,300 |
| United Arab Emirates | 70,900 |
| Pakistan | 38,900 |
| Israel | 28,100 |
| Greece | 18,400 |
| Kuwait | 17,000 |
| Qatar | 11,200 |
| Lebanon | 10,300 |
| Cyprus | 9,300 |
| Bulgaria | 8,360 |
| Djibouti | 7,300 |
| Bahrain | 690 |
| Libya | 441 |
What changed since 1990
Now drawn
Yemen
No longer drawn
North Yemen
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1991 Map of Europe · 1991 Map of Africa · 1991–1992 Map of South Asia · 1989–1991 Map of East Asia · 1989–1991 Map of Southeast Asia · 1990–1995 Map of Central Asia · 1979–1991 Map of North America · 1974–1991 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1982–1995 Map of South America · 1987–1999 Map of Oceania · 1987–1995
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.