Map of the Middle East, 2012–2019
On 1 July of every year from 2012 to 2019, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 33 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 | 1,930,000 |
| Iran | 1,620,000 |
| Sudan | 1,410,000 |
| Egypt | 998,000 |
| Turkey | 781,000 |
| Yemen | 456,000 |
| Iraq | 436,000 |
| 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 |
| South Sudan | 1,070 |
| Bahrain | 690 |
| Libya | 441 |
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What changed since 1993–2011
Now drawn
Sudan, South Sudan
No longer drawn
Sudan (incl. South Sudan)
The same date elsewhere
World map · 2012–2017 Map of Europe · 2008–2019 Map of Africa · 2012–2017 Map of South Asia · 2002–2019 Map of East Asia · 2000–2019 Map of Southeast Asia · 2002–2019 Map of Central Asia · 1992–2019 Map of North America · 2000–2019 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 2000–2019 Map of South America · 2000–2019 Map of Oceania · 2002–2019
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.