Map of the Middle East, 1993–2011
On 1 July of every year from 1993 to 2011, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 32 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 |
| Iran | 1,620,000 |
| Sudan (incl. South Sudan) | 1,410,000 |
| Egypt | 998,000 |
| Turkey | 781,000 |
| Iraq | 436,000 |
| Yemen | 426,000 |
| Turkmenistan | 387,000 |
| Oman | 310,000 |
| Syria | 187,000 |
| Ethiopia | 163,000 |
| Eritrea | 122,000 |
| Afghanistan | 121,000 |
| Jordan | 89,300 |
| Azerbaijan | 86,100 |
| United Arab Emirates | 70,900 |
| Pakistan | 38,900 |
| Uzbekistan | 37,400 |
| Georgia | 30,300 |
| Armenia | 29,600 |
| Israel | 28,100 |
| Greece | 18,400 |
| Kuwait | 17,000 |
| Qatar | 11,200 |
| Lebanon | 10,300 |
| Russia | 9,420 |
| Cyprus | 9,300 |
| Bulgaria | 8,360 |
| Djibouti | 7,300 |
| Kazakhstan | 6,010 |
| Bahrain | 690 |
| Libya | 441 |
Open the map on 1 July of
1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
What changed since 1992
Now drawn
Ethiopia, Eritrea
No longer drawn
Ethiopia (incl. Eritrea)
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1993–1995 Map of Europe · 1993–1999 Map of Africa · 1993–1996 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.