World map in 1850
On 1 July 1850, IntMap’s historical map draws 311 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 |
| United States | 8,000,000 |
| Empire of Brazil | 7,890,000 |
| Ottoman Empire | 4,780,000 |
| Colony of New South Wales | 4,250,000 |
| Rupert's Land | 4,100,000 |
| Company Raj | 3,540,000 |
| 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 |
| Mexico | 2,110,000 |
| Turco-Egyptian Sudan | 2,060,000 |
| Bolivia | 1,970,000 |
| 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 |
| French Republic | 964,000 |
| Sweden–Norway | 949,000 |
| Rattanakosin Kingdom Mandala | 904,000 |
| British Arctic Territories | 884,000 |
| Province of Mozambique | 811,000 |
| Khanate of Khiva | 797,000 |
| British Empire | 708,000 |
| 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 |
| Burma | 532,000 |
| Spain | 529,000 |
| Cape Colony | 517,000 |
| Tokugawa Shogunate | 508,000 |
| Emirate of Nejd | 494,000 |
| Comancheria | 486,000 |
| Columbia District | 477,000 |
| 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 | 286,000 |
| Chile | 283,000 |
| New Caledonia | 275,000 |
| Sultinate of Zanzibar | 271,000 |
| Joseon | 268,000 |
| Emirate of Bukhara | 243,000 |
| Ethiopian Empire | 241,000 |
| 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 |
| Mossi States | 207,000 |
| Kong Empire | 197,000 |
| Kingdom of the Netherlands | 195,000 |
| Lozi | 188,000 |
| Yeke | 187,000 |
| Shoshone | 183,000 |
| New Spain (1823-1854) | 169,000 |
| Mirambo Unyanyembe Ukimbu | 169,000 |
| Captaincy General of Cuba | 152,000 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 81,600 |
| 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 |
| Bight of Biafra | 75,200 |
| Kingdom of Greece | 74,000 |
| Colony of Nova Scotia | 73,300 |
| Mbailundu | 72,700 |
| Malaya | 71,700 |
| 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 |
| Gold Coast Colony | 56,300 |
| Dominican Republic | 56,300 |
| Teke | 56,000 |
| Angola (Portugal) | 52,900 |
| Portuguese Guinea | 51,800 |
| 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 |
| Colony of Vancouver Island | 43,500 |
| Wassoulou Empire | 43,200 |
| Talpur Dynasty | 43,200 |
| Imamate of Yemen | 42,900 |
| Switzerland | 41,200 |
| Hanover | 40,500 |
| Kingdom of Rwanda | 40,000 |
| Bhutan | 39,200 |
| Empire 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 |
| 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 |
| Basutoland | 21,300 |
| Emirate of Afghanistan | 21,300 |
| Chan Santa Cruz | 20,900 |
| 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 |
| French Africa | 17,500 |
| French Second Republic | 17,400 |
| 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 |
| British Windward Islands | 6,910 |
| Duchy of Modena and Reggio | 6,240 |
| Duchy of Parma and Piacenza | 6,240 |
| 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 |
| Waldeck-Pyrmont | 1,120 |
| French Nosy Be | 1,110 |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | 1,100 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Polynesians | 192 |
| Wallis and Futuna Islands | 166 |
| Heligoland | 156 |
| Liechtenstein | 156 |
| British Hong Kong | 131 |
| Frankfur | 91.3 |
| Monaco | 72.5 |
| San Marino | 60.1 |
| Couto Misto | 23.1 |
What changed since 1849
Now drawn
Empire of Haiti
No longer drawn
Ottoman Tripolitania, Republic of Haiti, Satara state, Danish Gold Coast, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Hohenzollern-Hechingen, Pyrmont, Republic of San Marco
The same date elsewhere
Map of Europe · 1850–1851 Map of the Middle East · 1848–1854 Map of Africa · 1850–1851 Map of South Asia · 1850–1852 Map of East Asia · 1850–1854 Map of Southeast Asia · 1848–1852 Map of Central Asia · 1849–1855 Map of North America · 1849–1850 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1850–1851 Map of South America · 1849–1852 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.