Map of Southeast Asia, 1896–1897
On 1 July of every year from 1896 to 1897, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 18 names within Southeast 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) |
|---|---|
| Dutch East Indies | 1,900,000 |
| Siam | 608,000 |
| British Raj (British India) | 575,000 |
| Qing Empire | 413,000 |
| Vietnam (France) | 327,000 |
| Philippines (Spain) | 299,000 |
| Laos (France) | 231,000 |
| Cambodia (France) | 131,000 |
| Sarawak | 125,000 |
| North Borneo (UK) | 73,300 |
| Federated Malay States | 69,200 |
| Taiwan (Japan) | 22,100 |
| Unfederated Malay States | 19,300 |
| Portuguese Timor (Portugal) | 15,300 |
| Brunei (UK) | 5,770 |
| Straits Settlements | 3,700 |
| British Colonial Empire | 2,850 |
| Papua (UK) | 654 |
Open the map on 1 July of
What changed since 1895
Now drawn
Federated Malay States
No longer drawn
Pahang, Perak, Negri Sembilan Protectorate, Selangore
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1896 Map of Europe · 1890–1904 Map of the Middle East · 1892–1897 Map of Africa · 1896 Map of South Asia · 1888–1911 Map of East Asia · 1895–1896 Map of Central Asia · 1886–1911 Map of North America · 1894–1898 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1886–1898 Map of South America · 1890–1903 Map of Oceania · 1894–1897
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 92°E–141°E, 11°S–24°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.