Map of the Middle East in 1992

On 1 July 1992, IntMap’s historical map draws 31 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.

NameDrawn area in view (km²)
Saudi Arabia1,960,000
Iran1,620,000
Sudan (incl. South Sudan)1,410,000
Egypt998,000
Turkey781,000
Iraq436,000
Yemen426,000
Turkmenistan387,000
Oman310,000
Ethiopia (incl. Eritrea)284,000
Syria187,000
Afghanistan121,000
Jordan89,300
Azerbaijan86,100
United Arab Emirates70,900
Pakistan38,900
Uzbekistan37,400
Georgia30,300
Armenia29,600
Israel28,100
Greece18,400
Kuwait17,000
Qatar11,200
Lebanon10,300
Russia9,420
Cyprus9,300
Bulgaria8,360
Djibouti7,300
Kazakhstan6,010
Bahrain690
Libya441

What changed since 1991

Now drawn

Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Georgia, Armenia, Russia, Kazakhstan

No longer drawn

Soviet Union

The same date elsewhere

World map · 1992 Map of Europe · 1992 Map of Africa · 1991–1992 Map of South Asia · 1992–2001 Map of East Asia · 1992–1999 Map of Southeast Asia · 1990–1995 Map of Central Asia · 1992–2019 Map of North America · 1992–1995 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.

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