Map of Southeast Asia, 1977–1983

On 1 July of every year from 1977 to 1983, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 17 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)
Indonesia (incl. East Timor)1,910,000
Burma534,000
Thailand515,000
China413,000
Malaysia331,000
Vietnam327,000
Philippines299,000
Laos231,000
Kampuchea183,000
India27,300
Taiwan22,100
Bangladesh13,700
Brunei (UK)5,770
British Colonial Empire2,850
British Empire2,850
Papua New Guinea654
Singapore565

Open the map on 1 July of

1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983

What changed since 1976

Now drawn

Indonesia (incl. East Timor), Vietnam

No longer drawn

Indonesia, North Vietnam, Portuguese Timor (Portugal)

The same date elsewhere

World map · 1977–1978 Map of Europe · 1976–1978 Map of the Middle East · 1977–1978 Map of Africa · 1977–1978 Map of South Asia · 1977–1978 Map of East Asia · 1977–1988 Map of Central Asia · 1972–1978 Map of North America · 1974–1991 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1976–1978 Map of South America · 1976–1986 Map of Oceania · 1977–1978

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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