Map of South Asia, 1965–1971

On 1 July of every year from 1965 to 1971, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 13 names within South Asia. 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.

NameDrawn area in view (km²)
India3,160,000
China1,670,000
Pakistan (incl. East Pakistan)1,020,000
Afghanistan604,000
Burma518,000
Imperial State of Iran182,000
Nepal147,000
Ceylon66,800
Soviet Union50,700
Bhutan39,900
Indonesia10,300
Thailand6,540
Maldives9.02

Open the map on 1 July of

1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971

What changed since 1951–1964

Now drawn

Maldives

No longer drawn

Maldives (UK)

The same date elsewhere

World map · 1965 Map of Europe · 1963–1975 Map of the Middle East · 1962–1966 Map of Africa · 1965 Map of East Asia · 1954–1971 Map of Southeast Asia · 1964–1965 Map of Central Asia · 1951–1971 Map of North America · 1959–1973 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1963–1965 Map of South America · 1963–1965 Map of Oceania · 1963–1969

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 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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