Map of North America in 1791
On 1 July 1791, IntMap’s historical map draws 22 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 (1786-1795) | 6,050,000 |
| Rupert's Land | 5,620,000 |
| Inner Provinces | 3,240,000 |
| North-West Territories | 2,790,000 |
| Captaincy General of Cuba | 2,780,000 |
| United States | 2,390,000 |
| Russian Empire | 1,700,000 |
| Province of Quebec | 1,330,000 |
| Comancheria | 486,000 |
| British Arctic Territories | 255,000 |
| Shoshone | 183,000 |
| Newfoundland Colony | 141,000 |
| Colony of New Brunswick | 99,900 |
| Denmark–Norway | 65,600 |
| Colony of Nova Scotia | 56,900 |
| Luisiana | 33,300 |
| Colony of the Bahamas | 28,600 |
| Vice-Royalty of New Spain | 23,900 |
| New Galicia | 20,800 |
| Colony of Cape Breton | 15,600 |
| St. John's Island Colony | 9,580 |
| Colony of Bermuda | 555 |
What changed since 1788–1790
Now drawn
Inner Provinces
No longer drawn
Western Inner Provinces, Eastern Inner Provinces
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1791 Map of Europe · 1791–1792 Map of the Middle East · 1789–1791 Map of Africa · 1791 Map of South Asia · 1790–1791 Map of East Asia · 1788–1791 Map of Southeast Asia · 1789–1792 Map of Central Asia · 1789–1796 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1791 Map of South America · 1789–1792 Map of Oceania · 1791
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.