World map in 1848
On 1 July 1848, IntMap’s historical map draws 322 names within the world. The borders for this date come from OpenHistoricalMap (day by day), then Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (by year), then historical-basemaps — each drawn only where the records before it are silent. The map also draws 9 outlines here that the source gives no name.
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) |
|---|---|
| Russian Empire | 20,800,000 |
| Qing | 13,300,000 |
| Empire of Brazil | 7,890,000 |
| United States | 6,620,000 |
| Ottoman Empire | 4,560,000 |
| Colony of New South Wales | 4,250,000 |
| Rupert's Land | 4,100,000 |
| Company Raj | 3,320,000 |
| North-West Territories | 2,990,000 |
| Colony of Western Australia | 2,610,000 |
| Denmark | 2,560,000 |
| Dutch East Indies | 2,250,000 |
| Argentine Confederation | 2,160,000 |
| Turco-Egyptian Sudan | 2,060,000 |
| Bolivia | 1,970,000 |
| Mexico | 1,960,000 |
| Russian America | 1,730,000 |
| Persia | 1,640,000 |
| United Province of Canada | 1,330,000 |
| New Granada | 1,310,000 |
| Sokoto Caliphate | 1,210,000 |
| Arabia | 1,160,000 |
| State of Venezuela | 1,100,000 |
| Peru | 1,090,000 |
| Colony of South Australia | 1,010,000 |
| Sweden–Norway | 949,000 |
| Rattanakosin Kingdom Mandala | 904,000 |
| British Arctic Territories | 884,000 |
| Province of Mozambique | 811,000 |
| Khanate of Khiva | 797,000 |
| Paraguay | 690,000 |
| Austrian Empire | 685,000 |
| Ecuador | 675,000 |
| Emirate of Kabul | 642,000 |
| Kingdom of Imerina | 626,000 |
| Pampas cultures (a description by the source, not a name) | 586,000 |
| Kingdom of France | 553,000 |
| Burma | 532,000 |
| Spain | 529,000 |
| Columbia District | 521,000 |
| Cape Colony | 517,000 |
| Tokugawa Shogunate | 508,000 |
| Emirate of Nejd | 494,000 |
| Comancheria | 486,000 |
| British Empire | 449,000 |
| Alawi Sultanate | 392,000 |
| Đại Nam | 383,000 |
| United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | 383,000 |
| Wadai Empire | 377,000 |
| Tukular Caliphate | 373,000 |
| Captaincy General of the Philippines | 348,000 |
| Spanish Philippines | 343,000 |
| Crown Colony of New Zealand | 318,000 |
| Sultanate of Utetera | 305,000 |
| Khanate of Kokand | 299,000 |
| Uruguay | 290,000 |
| Kingdom of Prussia | 285,000 |
| Chile | 281,000 |
| New Caledonia | 275,000 |
| Sultinate of Zanzibar | 271,000 |
| Joseon | 268,000 |
| Emirate of Bukhara | 243,000 |
| Ethiopian Empire | 241,000 |
| French Algeria | 231,000 |
| Bornu Empire | 228,000 |
| Crown Colony of Newfoundland | 227,000 |
| Patagonian shellfish and marine mammal hunters (a description by the source, not a name) | 227,000 |
| Khanate of Kalat | 219,000 |
| Ottoman Tripolitania | 217,000 |
| Mossi States | 207,000 |
| Kong Empire | 197,000 |
| Lozi | 188,000 |
| Yeke | 187,000 |
| Shoshone | 183,000 |
| Republic of Yucatán | 171,000 |
| New Spain (1823-1854) | 169,000 |
| Mirambo Unyanyembe Ukimbu | 169,000 |
| Captaincy General of Cuba | 152,000 |
| Suriname | 148,000 |
| Nepal | 148,000 |
| Kanem-Bornu | 142,000 |
| Omani Slave Coast | 136,000 |
| Muhammad Ali dynasty | 136,000 |
| Egypt | 134,000 |
| Orange River Sovereignty | 131,000 |
| Kingdom of Poland | 127,000 |
| Dendi Kingdom | 122,000 |
| Kingdom of Portugal | 120,000 |
| Kingdom of the Two Sicilies | 118,000 |
| Omani Empire | 118,000 |
| Majeerteen Sultanate | 115,000 |
| Borgu States | 114,000 |
| Kingdom of Lunda | 113,000 |
| Guatemala | 111,000 |
| Sikh Empire | 111,000 |
| Sultanate of Sulu | 107,000 |
| Nicaragua | 106,000 |
| Massina Empire | 105,000 |
| Ashanti Empire | 104,000 |
| Ethiopia | 101,000 |
| Honduras | 101,000 |
| Sultanate of Dar al Kuti | 100,000 |
| Barotse | 97,600 |
| Red River Colony | 97,400 |
| Liberia | 97,200 |
| Sultanate of Qishn and Socotra | 90,500 |
| Colony of Van Diemen's Land | 87,800 |
| Miskito Kingdom | 86,900 |
| Colony of French Guiana | 86,600 |
| Kingdom of Sardinia | 81,500 |
| Kashmir and Jammu | 81,400 |
| Trucial States | 80,900 |
| Shona | 79,300 |
| Colony of New Brunswick | 79,100 |
| British Guiana | 78,400 |
| Colony of Sierra Leone | 76,500 |
| Lunda | 76,300 |
| Kingdom of Bavaria | 76,200 |
| British Ceylon | 75,700 |
| Kingdom of Greece | 74,000 |
| Colony of Nova Scotia | 73,300 |
| Mbailundu | 72,700 |
| Malaya | 71,700 |
| Talpur Dynasty | 71,000 |
| Sultanate of Oman | 68,900 |
| Yaka | 67,500 |
| Sultanate of Maguindanao | 64,900 |
| Awadh | 64,500 |
| Sultanate of Johor | 63,700 |
| Harer (Egypt) | 62,800 |
| Ovimbundu | 61,000 |
| Kuba | 60,900 |
| Costa Rica | 60,100 |
| Ndebele | 59,700 |
| Bunyoro | 58,900 |
| Buganda | 58,500 |
| Dominican Republic | 56,300 |
| Teke | 56,000 |
| Angola (Portugal) | 52,900 |
| Portuguese Guinea | 51,800 |
| Gold Coast Colony | 49,400 |
| Transvaal | 48,600 |
| Morocco | 47,800 |
| Portuguese Timor | 47,800 |
| Sultanate of Brunei | 47,500 |
| Colony of the Bahamas | 47,200 |
| Imamate of Futa Toro | 47,000 |
| Colony of Natal | 46,900 |
| Oman | 46,900 |
| Senegal (FR) | 46,300 |
| Bahawalpur State | 44,800 |
| Papal States | 44,300 |
| Wassoulou Empire | 43,200 |
| Imamate of Yemen | 42,900 |
| Kingdom of the Netherlands | 42,700 |
| Switzerland | 41,200 |
| Hanover | 40,500 |
| Kingdom of Rwanda | 40,000 |
| Bhutan | 39,200 |
| Republic of Haiti | 35,700 |
| Nguni | 35,400 |
| J'rai | 35,100 |
| Sultanate of Damagaram | 32,700 |
| Sultanate of the Maldive Islands | 31,300 |
| British Cape Colony | 30,600 |
| Futa Jalon | 30,400 |
| Ngwato | 30,000 |
| Belgium | 29,900 |
| Satara state | 29,600 |
| Kingdom of Sicily | 29,300 |
| Hawaiian Kingdom | 28,400 |
| Kingdom of Burundi | 26,900 |
| Portuguese Empire | 26,900 |
| Zululand | 26,100 |
| British Colonial Empire | 25,900 |
| Grand Duchy of Tuscany | 25,000 |
| Sultanate of Perak | 24,100 |
| El Salvador | 22,900 |
| Manipur State | 22,400 |
| French Africa | 21,300 |
| Basutoland | 21,300 |
| Bourbon Kingdom of France | 21,300 |
| United States of America | 21,300 |
| Emirate of Afghanistan | 21,200 |
| Kingdom of Jolof | 20,500 |
| Kingdom of Dahomey | 20,400 |
| Rabih az-Zubayr | 20,300 |
| Gabon | 19,700 |
| Württemberg | 19,600 |
| Luba | 19,400 |
| Dahomey | 19,200 |
| Congo | 19,000 |
| Bundu | 18,900 |
| Kingdom of Saloum | 17,200 |
| Shilluk Kingdom | 16,800 |
| British Mauritius | 16,000 |
| Baden | 15,200 |
| Kingdom of Saxony | 14,900 |
| Sultanate of Terengganu | 14,900 |
| Ivory Coast | 14,900 |
| Colony of Jamaica | 14,700 |
| Ato trading confederacy | 14,400 |
| Kingdom of Cayor | 14,100 |
| Captaincy General of Puerto Rico | 14,100 |
| Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin | 13,900 |
| Spanish Guinea | 13,600 |
| Swaziland | 12,700 |
| Sultanate of Darfur | 12,700 |
| Calabar | 12,300 |
| Benin | 12,100 |
| Sultanate of Selangor | 11,800 |
| Gambia Colony and Protectorate | 11,700 |
| Kingdom of Niani | 11,700 |
| Settlement of British Honduras | 10,900 |
| Griqualand West | 10,900 |
| Kingdom of Luang Phrabang | 10,500 |
| Ryukyu Kingdom | 10,500 |
| Futa Toro | 9,840 |
| Prince Edward Island Colony | 9,580 |
| Electorate of Hesse | 9,480 |
| Sultanate of Kedah | 9,370 |
| Algeria (FR) | 9,200 |
| Mapuche | 9,010 |
| Spanish Posessions on the Gulf of Guinea | 8,920 |
| Kelantan | 8,610 |
| Grand Duchy of Hesse | 8,350 |
| Sarawak | 8,200 |
| Kingdom of Baol | 8,170 |
| Sultanate of Lahej | 8,120 |
| Mozambique | 7,850 |
| Colony of Trinidad | 7,680 |
| United States of the Ionian Islands | 7,380 |
| Oldenburg | 7,220 |
| Trucial Oman | 7,050 |
| Opobo | 7,000 |
| Danish Gold Coast | 6,910 |
| British Windward Islands | 6,910 |
| Duchy of Parma and Piacenza | 6,240 |
| Duchy of Modena and Reggio | 6,230 |
| Rwanda | 6,070 |
| Kingdom of Kakongo | 6,050 |
| Negeri Sembilan | 5,930 |
| Saxe-Meiningen | 5,730 |
| Kingdom of Waalo | 5,570 |
| Kingdom of Wuli | 5,410 |
| Natal | 5,180 |
| Nassau | 4,750 |
| Colony of Guadelupe | 4,380 |
| Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro | 4,310 |
| Colony of the Turks and Caicos Islands | 4,220 |
| La Réunion | 3,930 |
| Kingdom of Ngoyo | 3,920 |
| Brunswick | 3,700 |
| Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach | 3,610 |
| Chiangmai | 3,310 |
| Cotonou | 3,260 |
| Saxe-Altenburg | 3,260 |
| Tahiti Protectorate | 3,100 |
| Principality of Reuss-Gera | 3,010 |
| Samoa | 2,960 |
| Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz | 2,630 |
| Luxembourg | 2,590 |
| Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe | 2,560 |
| Colony of Maryland | 2,520 |
| Kingdom of Sine | 2,320 |
| Confederate States of Lanao | 2,060 |
| Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | 1,950 |
| Danish West Indies | 1,890 |
| Haushabi Sultanate | 1,860 |
| British Bay Islands | 1,690 |
| Mayotte | 1,620 |
| Walvis Bay Colony | 1,610 |
| Colony of Dominica | 1,570 |
| Cayman Islands | 1,520 |
| Isle of Man | 1,350 |
| Principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen | 1,310 |
| Sultanate of Ndzuwani | 1,260 |
| Principality of Lippe | 1,210 |
| France | 1,200 |
| French Nosy Be | 1,110 |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | 1,100 |
| Waldeck | 1,050 |
| Jersey | 984 |
| Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg | 946 |
| Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt | 935 |
| Crown Colony of Malta | 925 |
| Sultanate of Mwali | 923 |
| Guernsey | 909 |
| Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen | 902 |
| Nosy Boraha | 888 |
| Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen | 851 |
| Duchy of Anhalt-Dessau | 842 |
| Duchy of Anhalt-Bernburg | 809 |
| French India | 792 |
| Pitcairn Islands | 691 |
| Duchy of Anhalt-Köthen | 682 |
| Portuguese India | 654 |
| Colony of Labuan | 638 |
| Brunei | 612 |
| French Tourane | 590 |
| Colony of Bermuda | 555 |
| Saint Helena Crown Colony | 508 |
| Andorra | 467 |
| Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck | 414 |
| Schaumburg-Lippe | 341 |
| Principality of Reuss-Greiz | 312 |
| Bremen | 257 |
| Niue | 252 |
| American Samoa | 234 |
| Hesse-Homburg | 233 |
| Hohenzollern-Hechingen | 228 |
| Polynesians | 192 |
| Wallis and Futuna Islands | 166 |
| Heligoland | 156 |
| Liechtenstein | 156 |
| British Hong Kong | 131 |
| Frankfur | 91.3 |
| Monaco | 72.5 |
| Pyrmont | 65.2 |
| San Marino | 60.1 |
| Republic of San Marco | 32.7 |
| Couto Misto | 23.1 |
What changed since 1847
Now drawn
Orange River Sovereignty, Liberia, Kingdom of Sicily, United States of America, Colony of the Turks and Caicos Islands, La Réunion, Colony of Labuan, Republic of San Marco
No longer drawn
Kazakh Khanate, Colony of Liberia, Isle Bourbon, Duchy of Lucca
The same date elsewhere
Map of Europe · 1848 Map of the Middle East · 1848–1854 Map of Africa · 1848 Map of South Asia · 1847–1848 Map of East Asia · 1848 Map of Southeast Asia · 1848–1852 Map of Central Asia · 1848 Map of North America · 1848 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1848 Map of South America · 1847–1848 Map of Oceania · 1847–1850
Source and method
Borders and names: OpenHistoricalMap (openhistoricalmap.org) · CC0 1.0 + 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 + aourednik/historical-basemaps (github.com/aourednik/historical-basemaps) · GPL-3.0 · adapted by IntMap: each sheet before 1886 less the ground OpenHistoricalMap and Cliopatria state at that sheet's year.
Listed: every name whose outline IntMap draws inside 180°W–180°E, 90°S–90°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.