Map of North America in 1717
On 1 July 1717, IntMap’s historical map draws 58 names within North America. The borders for this date come from OpenHistoricalMap (day by day), then Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (by year), then historical-basemaps — each drawn only where the records before it are silent. The map also draws 67 outlines here that the source gives no name.
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) |
|---|---|
| New France | 5,460,000 |
| Rupert's Land | 4,260,000 |
| French Louisiana | 3,960,000 |
| North-West Territories | 2,790,000 |
| New Spain (1717-1718) | 2,120,000 |
| Colony of Canada | 1,330,000 |
| Athabascan | 865,000 |
| Inupiaq | 547,000 |
| Shoshoni | 270,000 |
| Captaincy General of Cuba | 262,000 |
| British Arctic Territories | 255,000 |
| Northern Paiute | 231,000 |
| Vice-Royalty of New Spain | 231,000 |
| Eyaq | 226,000 |
| Yup'ik & Cup'ik | 214,000 |
| Shoshone | 183,000 |
| Colony of Acadia | 181,000 |
| Province of South Carolina | 149,000 |
| Ute | 133,000 |
| Province of North Carolina | 123,000 |
| Catawba | 123,000 |
| Southern Paiute | 118,000 |
| British Colonial Empire | 113,000 |
| British Empire | 112,000 |
| Colony of Virginia | 103,000 |
| Colony of Pennsylvania | 81,800 |
| Colony of New York | 80,900 |
| Suspiaq | 78,000 |
| Province of Massachusetts Bay | 73,500 |
| Colony of Nova Scotia | 72,500 |
| New Kingdom of León | 57,800 |
| Nez Perce | 47,800 |
| Yokuts | 46,100 |
| Serano | 31,400 |
| Province of Maryland | 29,400 |
| New Hampshire Colony | 24,100 |
| New Jersey Colony | 23,300 |
| Spanish Empire | 21,700 |
| New Galicia | 20,800 |
| Miwok | 19,100 |
| Yakima | 19,100 |
| Kalapuya | 17,800 |
| Tenimo | 17,100 |
| Maiou | 16,900 |
| Cayuse | 15,800 |
| Subarctic forest hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name) | 15,600 |
| Kawahsu | 14,400 |
| Colony of Connecticut | 14,400 |
| Kalispel | 14,200 |
| Newfoundland Colony | 13,400 |
| Pomo | 10,200 |
| Isle Saint-Jean | 9,580 |
| Modoc | 9,270 |
| Blackfoot | 8,030 |
| Umatilla | 7,240 |
| Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations | 4,020 |
| Republic of Pirates | 1,140 |
| Colony of Bermuda | 555 |
What changed since 1713–1716
Now drawn
New Spain (1717-1718)
No longer drawn
New Spain (1710-1717)
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1717 Map of Europe · 1714–1717 Map of the Middle East · 1713–1726 Map of Africa · 1714–1717 Map of South Asia · 1713–1717 Map of East Asia · 1717 Map of Southeast Asia · 1717 Map of Central Asia · 1709–1717 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1717 Map of South America · 1717–1722 Map of Oceania · 1717
Source and method
Borders and names: OpenHistoricalMap (openhistoricalmap.org) · CC0 1.0 + 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 + aourednik/historical-basemaps (github.com/aourednik/historical-basemaps) · GPL-3.0 · adapted by IntMap: each sheet before 1886 less the ground OpenHistoricalMap and Cliopatria state at that sheet's year.
Listed: every name whose outline IntMap draws inside 170°W–52°W, 24°N–72°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.