Map of Southeast Asia, 1958–1962

On 1 July of every year from 1958 to 1962, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 22 names within Southeast 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)
Indonesia1,480,000
Burma534,000
Thailand515,000
Dutch New Guinea (Netherlands)414,000
China413,000
Philippines299,000
Laos231,000
Cambodia183,000
South Vietnam170,000
North Vietnam156,000
Malaya133,000
Sarawak (UK)125,000
North Borneo (UK)73,300
India27,300
Taiwan22,100
Portuguese Timor (Portugal)15,300
Pakistan (incl. East Pakistan)13,700
Brunei (UK)5,770
British Colonial Empire2,850
British Empire2,850
Papua and New Guinea (Australia)654
Singapore (UK)565

Open the map on 1 July of

1958 1959 1960 1961 1962

What changed since 1954–1957

Now drawn

Malaya

No longer drawn

Malaya (UK)

The same date elsewhere

World map · 1958 Map of Europe · 1956–1962 Map of the Middle East · 1956–1960 Map of Africa · 1958 Map of South Asia · 1951–1964 Map of East Asia · 1954–1971 Map of Central Asia · 1951–1971 Map of North America · 1949–1958 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1924–1962 Map of South America · 1946–1962 Map of Oceania · 1950–1959

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 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.

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