Map of North America, 1859–1860
On 1 July of every year from 1859 to 1860, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 26 names within North America. The borders 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) |
|---|---|
| United States | 8,080,000 |
| Rupert's Land | 4,100,000 |
| North-West Territories | 2,790,000 |
| Russian Empire | 1,700,000 |
| Russian America | 1,700,000 |
| United Province of Canada | 1,330,000 |
| Mexico | 1,020,000 |
| Comancheria | 486,000 |
| Colony of British Columbia | 477,000 |
| British Arctic Territories | 255,000 |
| Crown Colony of Newfoundland | 227,000 |
| Shoshone | 183,000 |
| Apsáalooke people | 122,000 |
| Red River Colony | 97,400 |
| Colony of New Brunswick | 79,100 |
| Colony of Nova Scotia | 73,300 |
| Denmark | 65,600 |
| British Colonial Empire | 61,000 |
| British Empire | 60,800 |
| Colony of Vancouver Island | 43,500 |
| Colony of the Bahamas | 28,600 |
| Prince Edward Island Colony | 9,580 |
| New Spain (1854-1861) | 4,130 |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | 1,100 |
| Colony of Bermuda | 555 |
| Hawaiian Kingdom | 98.5 |
Open the map on 1 July of
What changed since 1854–1858
Now drawn
Colony of British Columbia, British Colonial Empire, British Empire
No longer drawn
Columbia District, New Caledonia, Colony of the Queen Charlotte Islands
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1859 Map of Europe · 1853–1859 Map of the Middle East · 1859–1861 Map of Africa · 1859 Map of South Asia · 1859–1866 Map of East Asia · 1859–1866 Map of Southeast Asia · 1859–1861 Map of Central Asia · 1859–1873 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1859 Map of South America · 1858–1860 Map of Oceania · 1859
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.