Map of South Asia in 1886
On 1 July 1886, IntMap’s historical map draws 13 names within South Asia. The borders for this date 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.
| Name | Drawn area in view (km²) |
|---|---|
| British Raj (British India) | 4,510,000 |
| Qing Empire | 1,680,000 |
| Afghanistan | 770,000 |
| Persia | 182,000 |
| Nepal | 147,000 |
| Ceylon (UK) | 66,800 |
| Russian Empire | 48,800 |
| Bhutan | 39,900 |
| Sultanate of the Maldive Islands | 11,500 |
| Dutch East Indies | 10,300 |
| Siam | 6,540 |
| Emirate of Bukhara | 1,850 |
| French Settlements in India | 727 |
What changed since 1885
Now drawn
Qing Empire, Afghanistan, Ceylon (UK), French Settlements in India
No longer drawn
Qing, Emirate of Afghanistan, Protectorate of Afghanistan, British Empire, British Ceylon, Manipur State, French India, Portuguese India, Sultanate of Muscat and Oman
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1886 Map of Europe · 1886–1889 Map of the Middle East · 1886 Map of Africa · 1886 Map of East Asia · 1886 Map of Southeast Asia · 1886 Map of Central Asia · 1886–1911 Map of North America · 1886–1893 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1886–1898 Map of South America · 1886–1889 Map of Oceania · 1886–1888
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 60°E–98°E, 5°N–37°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.