Map of North America in 1776
On 1 July 1776, IntMap’s historical map draws 37 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.
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 Spain (1767-1782) | 5,760,000 |
| Rupert's Land | 5,620,000 |
| Inner Provinces | 3,240,000 |
| North-West Territories | 2,790,000 |
| Captaincy General of Cuba | 2,490,000 |
| Province of Quebec | 2,160,000 |
| Russian Empire | 1,700,000 |
| Comancheria | 486,000 |
| Colony of Georgia | 281,000 |
| British Arctic Territories | 255,000 |
| Colony of North Carolina | 242,000 |
| Colony of Virginia | 210,000 |
| Shoshone | 183,000 |
| Colony of Nova Scotia | 172,000 |
| Province of New York | 156,000 |
| East Florida | 147,000 |
| West Florida | 147,000 |
| Newfoundland Colony | 141,000 |
| Province of Massachusetts Bay | 129,000 |
| Colony of Pennsylvania | 123,000 |
| Colony of South Carolina | 106,000 |
| New Santander | 95,200 |
| Transylvania Colony | 68,100 |
| Denmark–Norway | 65,600 |
| New Kingdom of León | 57,800 |
| Luisiana | 33,300 |
| Province of Maryland | 29,400 |
| Colony of the Bahamas | 28,600 |
| New Hampshire Colony | 24,100 |
| Vice-Royalty of New Spain | 23,900 |
| New Jersey Colony | 22,600 |
| New Galicia | 20,800 |
| Colony of Connecticut | 14,400 |
| St. John's Island Colony | 9,580 |
| Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations | 4,020 |
| Rhode Island | 3,970 |
| Colony of Bermuda | 555 |
What changed since 1775
Now drawn
Inner Provinces, Rhode Island
No longer drawn
none
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1776 Map of Europe · 1775–1782 Map of the Middle East · 1762–1784 Map of Africa · 1776–1777 Map of South Asia · 1775–1780 Map of East Asia · 1775–1779 Map of Southeast Asia · 1775–1776 Map of Central Asia · 1762–1784 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1776 Map of South America · 1776 Map of Oceania · 1767–1780
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.