World map in 1856
On 1 July 1856, IntMap’s historical map draws 310 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 | 8,080,000 |
| Empire of Brazil | 7,890,000 |
| Ottoman Empire | 4,790,000 |
| Rupert's Land | 4,100,000 |
| Colony of New South Wales | 4,010,000 |
| Company Raj | 3,670,000 |
| North-West Territories | 2,990,000 |
| Colony of Western Australia | 2,610,000 |
| Denmark | 2,560,000 |
| Dutch East Indies | 2,250,000 |
| Turco-Egyptian Sudan | 2,060,000 |
| Mexico | 2,060,000 |
| Bolivia | 1,970,000 |
| Argentine Confederation | 1,840,000 |
| Russian America | 1,730,000 |
| Persia | 1,640,000 |
| United Province of Canada | 1,330,000 |
| New Granada | 1,310,000 |
| Sokoto Caliphate | 1,200,000 |
| Arabia | 1,160,000 |
| State of Venezuela | 1,100,000 |
| Peru | 1,090,000 |
| Colony of South Australia | 1,010,000 |
| Emirate of Nejd | 994,000 |
| Second French Empire | 982,000 |
| Sweden–Norway | 949,000 |
| Rattanakosin Kingdom Mandala | 904,000 |
| British Arctic Territories | 884,000 |
| British Empire | 836,000 |
| Province of Mozambique | 811,000 |
| Khanate of Khiva | 798,000 |
| Paraguay | 690,000 |
| Austrian Empire | 685,000 |
| Ecuador | 675,000 |
| Emirate of Afghanistan | 663,000 |
| Kingdom of Imerina | 626,000 |
| Pampas cultures (a description by the source, not a name) | 586,000 |
| Spain | 529,000 |
| Cape Colony | 517,000 |
| Tokugawa Shogunate | 508,000 |
| Comancheria | 486,000 |
| Columbia District | 463,000 |
| Burma | 419,000 |
| 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 |
| Ethiopian Empire | 342,000 |
| Colony of New Zealand | 318,000 |
| State of Buenos Aires | 318,000 |
| Sultanate of Utetera | 305,000 |
| New Caledonia | 295,000 |
| South African Republic | 292,000 |
| Khanate of Kokand | 288,000 |
| Kingdom of Prussia | 286,000 |
| Chile | 283,000 |
| Sultinate of Zanzibar | 271,000 |
| Joseon | 268,000 |
| Emirate of Bukhara | 243,000 |
| Colony of Victoria | 238,000 |
| 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 |
| Uruguay | 182,000 |
| New Spain (1854-1861) | 170,000 |
| Mirambo Unyanyembe Ukimbu | 169,000 |
| Captaincy General of Cuba | 152,000 |
| Nepal | 148,000 |
| Kanem-Bornu | 142,000 |
| Muhammad Ali dynasty | 136,000 |
| Egypt | 134,000 |
| Orange Free State | 131,000 |
| Kingdom of Poland | 127,000 |
| Kingdom of Portugal | 124,000 |
| Bight of Benin | 124,000 |
| Dendi Kingdom | 122,000 |
| Apsáalooke people | 122,000 |
| Kingdom of the Two Sicilies | 118,000 |
| Omani Empire | 117,000 |
| Sultanate of Muscat and Oman | 117,000 |
| Majeerteen Sultanate | 115,000 |
| Borgu States | 114,000 |
| Guatemala | 111,000 |
| Kingdom of Lunda | 110,000 |
| Sultanate of Sulu | 107,000 |
| Nicaragua | 106,000 |
| Massina Empire | 105,000 |
| Ashanti Empire | 104,000 |
| Sultanate of Dar al Kuti | 100,000 |
| Honduras | 98,900 |
| Barotse | 97,600 |
| Red River Colony | 97,400 |
| Liberia | 97,200 |
| Sultanate of Qishn and Socotra | 90,500 |
| Colony of Tasmania | 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 |
| Yaka | 67,500 |
| Sultanate of Maguindanao | 64,900 |
| 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 |
| Oman | 47,100 |
| Imamate of Futa Toro | 47,000 |
| Colony of Natal | 46,900 |
| Senegal (FR) | 46,300 |
| Bahawalpur State | 44,800 |
| Papal States | 44,300 |
| Colony of Vancouver Island | 43,500 |
| Talpur Dynasty | 43,400 |
| Wassoulou Empire | 43,200 |
| Imamate of Yemen | 42,900 |
| Pahang Sultanate | 41,300 |
| 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 |
| Portuguese Empire | 31,000 |
| British Cape Colony | 30,600 |
| Futa Jalon | 30,400 |
| Ngwato | 30,000 |
| Belgium | 29,900 |
| People's Republic of Zanzibar | 28,800 |
| Hawaiian Kingdom | 28,400 |
| Kingdom of Burundi | 26,900 |
| Zululand | 25,600 |
| Grand Duchy of Tuscany | 25,000 |
| Sultanate of Perak | 24,100 |
| El Salvador | 22,900 |
| Manipur State | 22,400 |
| Basutoland | 21,300 |
| Chan Santa Cruz | 20,900 |
| Kingdom of Jolof | 20,500 |
| Kingdom of Dahomey | 20,400 |
| Sultanate of Johor | 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 |
| 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 |
| Colony of the Queen Charlotte Islands | 14,500 |
| Ato trading confederacy | 14,400 |
| Kingdom of Cayor | 14,100 |
| Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin | 13,900 |
| Spanish Guinea | 13,600 |
| Captaincy General of Puerto Rico | 12,800 |
| Swaziland | 12,700 |
| Sultanate of Darfur | 12,700 |
| Calabar | 12,300 |
| Benin | 12,000 |
| 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 |
| British Colonial Empire | 8,180 |
| 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 Wuli | 5,410 |
| Natal | 5,180 |
| Kingdom of Sarawak | 5,020 |
| Nassau | 4,750 |
| Colony of Guadelupe | 4,380 |
| Principality 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 |
| Republic 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 |
| Colony of the Bay Islands | 1,690 |
| Mayotte | 1,620 |
| Walvis Bay Colony | 1,610 |
| Colony of Dominica | 1,570 |
| Duchy of Anhalt-Dessau | 1,530 |
| Cayman Islands | 1,520 |
| Isle of Man | 1,350 |
| Sultanate of Ndzuwani | 1,260 |
| Principality of Lippe | 1,210 |
| 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-Bernburg | 809 |
| French India | 792 |
| Pitcairn Islands | 691 |
| 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 1855
Now drawn
Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, Colony of Tasmania, People's Republic of Zanzibar
No longer drawn
Emirate of Kabul, Omani Slave Coast, Colony of Van Diemen's Land, Sultanate of Oman, Awadh, Kingdom of Waalo
The same date elsewhere
Map of Europe · 1853–1859 Map of the Middle East · 1856 Map of Africa · 1856 Map of South Asia · 1856 Map of East Asia · 1856–1858 Map of Southeast Asia · 1854–1858 Map of Central Asia · 1856–1858 Map of North America · 1854–1858 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1854–1857 Map of South America · 1853–1857 Map of Oceania · 1856
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.