Map of South America, 1904–1923

On 1 July of every year from 1904 to 1923, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 19 names within South America. The borders come from CShapes 2.0 (day by day), then OpenHistoricalMap (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.

NameDrawn area in view (km²)
Brazil8,470,000
Argentina2,810,000
Peru1,280,000
Bolivia1,200,000
Colombia1,100,000
Venezuela916,000
Chile749,000
Ecuador336,000
Paraguay294,000
British Guiana (UK)212,000
Uruguay178,000
Dutch Guiana (Netherlands)146,000
French Guiana (France)84,200
Panama63,900
Brazilian Republic10,700
British Colonial Empire5,690
British Empire5,460
Trinidad and Tobago (UK)5,240
British Windward Islands2,510

Open the map on 1 July of

1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923

What changed since 1890–1903

Now drawn

Panama

No longer drawn

none

The same date elsewhere

World map · 1904 Map of Europe · 1890–1904 Map of the Middle East · 1902–1911 Map of Africa · 1904 Map of South Asia · 1888–1911 Map of East Asia · 1899–1905 Map of Southeast Asia · 1899–1905 Map of Central Asia · 1886–1911 Map of North America · 1899–1917 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1904–1916 Map of Oceania · 1903–1905

Source and method

Borders and names: CShapes 2.0 (Schvitz et al. 2022, icr.ethz.ch/data/cshapes) · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 + OpenHistoricalMap (openhistoricalmap.org) · CC0 1.0 · adapted by IntMap: the admin_level=2 relations in force from 1886, less the ground CShapes states on its own dates + 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 82°W–34°W, 56°S–13°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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