Map of North America in 1803
On 1 July 1803, IntMap’s historical map draws 27 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 (1795-1803) | 5,960,000 |
| Rupert's Land | 5,620,000 |
| United States | 4,910,000 |
| North-West Territories | 2,790,000 |
| Captaincy General of Cuba | 2,690,000 |
| Colony of Louisiana | 2,490,000 |
| Russian Empire | 1,700,000 |
| Russian America | 1,700,000 |
| Inner Provinces | 1,660,000 |
| Province of Lower Canada | 933,000 |
| Comancheria | 486,000 |
| Province of Upper Canada | 395,000 |
| 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 |
| Louisiana Disputed Territory | 20,600 |
| Colony of Cape Breton | 15,600 |
| Prince Edward Island Colony | 9,580 |
| Colony of Bermuda | 555 |
| Hawaiian Kingdom | 98.5 |
What changed since 1801–1802
Now drawn
Louisiana Disputed Territory
No longer drawn
French Louisiana
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1803 Map of Europe · 1803 Map of the Middle East · 1803–1807 Map of Africa · 1803 Map of South Asia · 1803–1804 Map of East Asia · 1803 Map of Southeast Asia · 1803 Map of Central Asia · 1802–1805 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1803 Map of South America · 1802–1803 Map of Oceania · 1800–1803
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.