Map of North America, 1959–1973
On 1 July of every year from 1959 to 1973, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 6 names within North America. The borders come from CShapes 2.0 (day by day), then Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (by year) — 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 | 9,440,000 |
| Canada | 9,270,000 |
| Mexico | 987,000 |
| Denmark | 49,400 |
| Bahamas (UK) | 8,380 |
| Soviet Union | 232 |
Open the map on 1 July of
1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973
What changed since 1949–1958
Now drawn
none
No longer drawn
Alaska (USA)
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1959 Map of Europe · 1956–1962 Map of the Middle East · 1956–1960 Map of Africa · 1959 Map of South Asia · 1951–1964 Map of East Asia · 1954–1971 Map of Southeast Asia · 1958–1962 Map of Central Asia · 1951–1971 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1924–1962 Map of South America · 1946–1962 Map of Oceania · 1950–1959
Source and method
Borders and names: CShapes 2.0 (Schvitz et al. 2022, icr.ethz.ch/data/cshapes) · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 + 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.
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.