Map of South Asia, 1921–1922

On 1 July of every year from 1921 to 1922, 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.

NameDrawn area in view (km²)
British Raj (British India)4,750,000
Tibet1,460,000
Afghanistan604,000
Persia182,000
Republic of China152,000
Nepal147,000
Ceylon (UK)66,800
Soviet Russia (RSFSR)50,700
Bhutan39,900
Maldives Protectorate11,500
Dutch East Indies10,300
Siam6,540
French Settlements in India727
Maldives (UK)9.02

Open the map on 1 July of

1921 1922

What changed since 1918–1920

Now drawn

none

No longer drawn

Emirate of Bukhara

The same date elsewhere

World map · 1921 Map of Europe · 1921–1922 Map of the Middle East · 1921 Map of Africa · 1921 Map of East Asia · 1921–1922 Map of Southeast Asia · 1919–1923 Map of Central Asia · 1921–1922 Map of North America · 1918–1922 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1917–1923 Map of South America · 1904–1923 Map of Oceania · 1920–1921

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.

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