Map of North America in 1821

On 1 July 1821, IntMap’s historical map draws 28 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.

NameDrawn area in view (km²)
United States8,740,000
Rupert's Land4,100,000
New Spain (1819-1821)3,270,000
North-West Territories2,790,000
Inner Provinces2,020,000
Russian Empire1,700,000
Russian America1,700,000
Columbia District1,270,000
Province of Lower Canada933,000
Comancheria486,000
Province of Upper Canada395,000
New Caledonia275,000
British Arctic Territories255,000
Canada209,000
Shoshone183,000
Captaincy General of Cuba170,000
Newfoundland Colony141,000
Colony of New Brunswick99,900
Red River Colony97,400
Vice-Royalty of New Spain81,800
Colony of Nova Scotia73,300
Denmark65,600
Colony of the Bahamas28,600
New Galicia20,800
Prince Edward Island Colony9,580
Saint Pierre and Miquelon1,100
Colony of Bermuda555
Hawaiian Kingdom98.5

What changed since 1819–1820

Now drawn

none

No longer drawn

Louisiana Neutral Ground, Colony of Cape Breton

The same date elsewhere

World map · 1821 Map of Europe · 1820–1826 Map of the Middle East · 1820–1821 Map of Africa · 1821 Map of South Asia · 1820–1821 Map of East Asia · 1820–1821 Map of Southeast Asia · 1820–1821 Map of Central Asia · 1820–1821 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1821 Map of South America · 1821 Map of Oceania · 1819–1821

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.

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