Map of South Asia, 1888–1911
On 1 July of every year from 1888 to 1911, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 14 names within South Asia. 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.
| 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 |
| Maldives Protectorate | 11,500 |
| Dutch East Indies | 10,300 |
| Siam | 6,540 |
| Emirate of Bukhara | 1,850 |
| French Settlements in India | 727 |
| Maldives (UK) | 9.02 |
Open the map on 1 July of
1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911
What changed since 1887
Now drawn
Maldives (UK)
No longer drawn
Sultanate of the Maldive Islands
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1888 Map of Europe · 1886–1889 Map of the Middle East · 1887–1889 Map of Africa · 1888 Map of East Asia · 1887–1893 Map of Southeast Asia · 1888 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.