Map of South America, 1946–1962
On 1 July of every year from 1946 to 1962, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 18 names within South 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) |
|---|---|
| Brazil | 8,510,000 |
| Argentina | 2,780,000 |
| Peru | 1,300,000 |
| Colombia | 1,140,000 |
| Bolivia | 1,090,000 |
| Venezuela | 929,000 |
| Chile | 749,000 |
| Paraguay | 400,000 |
| Ecuador | 249,000 |
| British Guiana (UK) | 212,000 |
| Uruguay | 178,000 |
| Dutch Guiana (Netherlands) | 146,000 |
| French Guiana (France) | 84,200 |
| Panama | 63,900 |
| British Colonial Empire | 20,400 |
| British Empire | 19,700 |
| Brazilian Republic | 10,700 |
| Trinidad and Tobago (UK) | 5,240 |
Open the map on 1 July of
1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962
What changed since 1932–1945
Now drawn
Brazilian Republic
No longer drawn
Inini, Unitary State of Brazil
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1946 Map of Europe · 1946–1949 Map of the Middle East · 1946 Map of Africa · 1946 Map of South Asia · 1939–1947 Map of East Asia · 1946 Map of Southeast Asia · 1946 Map of Central Asia · 1933–1947 Map of North America · 1941–1948 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1924–1962 Map of Oceania · 1924–1948
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 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.