Map of North America in 1868
On 1 July 1868, 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) |
|---|---|
| United States | 9,780,000 |
| Rupert's Land | 4,100,000 |
| North-West Territories | 2,790,000 |
| Dominion of Canada | 1,200,000 |
| Mexico | 1,020,000 |
| Colony of British Columbia | 1,010,000 |
| British Arctic Territories | 255,000 |
| Crown Colony of Newfoundland | 227,000 |
| British Colonial Empire | 183,000 |
| British Empire | 183,000 |
| Shoshone | 183,000 |
| Apsáalooke people | 122,000 |
| Red River Colony | 97,400 |
| Denmark | 65,600 |
| Colony of the Bahamas | 28,600 |
| Shoshone Indian Reservation | 12,200 |
| Prince Edward Island Colony | 9,580 |
| New Spain (1865-1899) | 4,130 |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | 1,100 |
| Russian Empire | 743 |
| Colony of Bermuda | 555 |
| Hawaiian Kingdom | 98.5 |
What changed since 1867
Now drawn
Shoshone Indian Reservation
No longer drawn
Russian America
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1868 Map of Europe · 1868 Map of the Middle East · 1868–1869 Map of Africa · 1868–1869 Map of South Asia · 1867–1872 Map of East Asia · 1868 Map of Southeast Asia · 1868 Map of Central Asia · 1859–1873 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1867–1870 Map of South America · 1864–1879 Map of Oceania · 1868
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.