World map in 1872
On 1 July 1872, IntMap’s historical map draws 265 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 11 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 | 21,800,000 |
| Qing | 12,200,000 |
| United States | 9,820,000 |
| Dominion of Canada | 9,500,000 |
| Empire of Brazil | 8,230,000 |
| Ottoman Empire | 4,790,000 |
| British Raj (British India) | 4,150,000 |
| Colony of Western Australia | 2,610,000 |
| Denmark | 2,540,000 |
| Colony of South Australia | 2,400,000 |
| Dutch East Indies | 2,280,000 |
| Argentina | 2,160,000 |
| Mexico | 2,030,000 |
| Colony of Queensland | 1,800,000 |
| Bolivia | 1,690,000 |
| Persia | 1,640,000 |
| Colombia | 1,310,000 |
| Sokoto Caliphate | 1,200,000 |
| Khedivate of Egypt | 1,160,000 |
| Arabia | 1,160,000 |
| United States of Venezuela | 1,100,000 |
| Peru | 1,090,000 |
| French Republic | 1,010,000 |
| Sweden–Norway | 949,000 |
| British Arctic Territories | 884,000 |
| Colony of New South Wales | 814,000 |
| Province of Mozambique | 811,000 |
| Siam | 775,000 |
| Emirate of Nejd | 773,000 |
| Ecuador | 675,000 |
| Emirate of Afghanistan | 642,000 |
| Austria-Hungary | 638,000 |
| Kingdom of Imerina | 626,000 |
| Paraguay | 597,000 |
| Pampas cultures (a description by the source, not a name) | 586,000 |
| German Reich | 561,000 |
| Spain | 529,000 |
| Cape Colony | 517,000 |
| Empire of Japan (1869-1879) | 510,000 |
| Khanate of Khiva | 474,000 |
| Burma | 419,000 |
| Alawi Sultanate | 392,000 |
| United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | 383,000 |
| Wadai Empire | 379,000 |
| Tukular Caliphate | 373,000 |
| Chile | 372,000 |
| Captaincy General of the Philippines | 348,000 |
| Spanish Philippines | 343,000 |
| Ethiopian Empire | 342,000 |
| British Empire | 322,000 |
| Colony of New Zealand | 318,000 |
| Đại Nam | 317,000 |
| Kingdom of Italy | 314,000 |
| Sultanate of Utetera | 305,000 |
| Sultanate of Darfur | 295,000 |
| South African Republic | 292,000 |
| Sultinate of Zanzibar | 271,000 |
| Joseon | 268,000 |
| Aden Protectorate | 251,000 |
| 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 |
| Emirate of Bukhara | 189,000 |
| Lozi | 188,000 |
| Yeke | 187,000 |
| Shoshone | 183,000 |
| Uruguay | 182,000 |
| French Third Republic | 181,000 |
| New Spain (1865-1899) | 170,000 |
| Mirambo Unyanyembe Ukimbu | 169,000 |
| Khanate of Kokand | 159,000 |
| Captaincy General of Cuba | 152,000 |
| Nepal | 148,000 |
| Kanem-Bornu | 142,000 |
| Egypt | 134,000 |
| Orange Free State | 131,000 |
| Kingdom of Portugal | 124,000 |
| Dendi Kingdom | 122,000 |
| Honduras | 120,000 |
| Sultanate of Muscat and Oman | 117,000 |
| Majeerteen Sultanate | 115,000 |
| Borgu States | 114,000 |
| Kingdom of Lunda | 110,000 |
| Sultanate of Sulu | 107,000 |
| Nicaragua | 106,000 |
| Ashanti Empire | 104,000 |
| Sultanate of Dar al Kuti | 100,000 |
| Liberia | 99,700 |
| Barotse | 97,600 |
| Guatemala | 95,200 |
| Sultanate of Qishn and Socotra | 90,500 |
| Colony of Tasmania | 87,800 |
| Colony of French Guiana | 86,600 |
| Emirate of Jabal Shammar | 84,400 |
| French Africa | 84,000 |
| Kingdom of Greece | 81,300 |
| Lagos Colony | 81,300 |
| Trucial States | 80,900 |
| British Guiana | 80,000 |
| Shona | 79,300 |
| Kingdom of Sarawak | 78,100 |
| Colony of Sierra Leone | 76,500 |
| Lunda | 76,300 |
| British Ceylon | 75,700 |
| Mbailundu | 72,700 |
| Malaya | 71,700 |
| Yaka | 67,500 |
| British Cape Colony | 66,700 |
| Gold Coast Colony | 65,400 |
| Sultanate of Maguindanao | 64,900 |
| Harer (Egypt) | 62,800 |
| Ovimbundu | 61,000 |
| Kuba | 60,900 |
| Colony of Cochinchina | 60,900 |
| Costa Rica | 60,100 |
| Ndebele | 59,700 |
| Bunyoro | 58,900 |
| Buganda | 58,500 |
| Dominican Republic | 56,300 |
| Teke | 56,000 |
| British Colonial Empire | 54,800 |
| Angola (Portugal) | 52,900 |
| Portuguese Guinea | 51,800 |
| Transvaal | 48,600 |
| Morocco | 47,800 |
| Colony of the Bahamas | 47,200 |
| Oman | 47,100 |
| Colony of Natal | 46,900 |
| Senegal (FR) | 46,300 |
| Bahawalpur State | 44,800 |
| Kingdom of Fiji | 43,400 |
| Wassoulou Empire | 43,200 |
| Imamate of Yemen | 42,100 |
| Pahang Sultanate | 41,300 |
| Switzerland | 41,200 |
| Kingdom of Rwanda | 40,000 |
| Bhutan | 39,200 |
| Principality of Serbia | 37,600 |
| New Caledonia | 36,500 |
| Republic of Haiti | 35,700 |
| Nguni | 35,400 |
| J'rai | 35,100 |
| Sultanate of Damagaram | 32,700 |
| British Honduras Colony | 31,700 |
| Sultanate of the Maldive Islands | 31,300 |
| Portuguese Empire | 31,000 |
| Futa Jalon | 30,400 |
| Mosquito Reserve | 30,200 |
| Ngwato | 30,000 |
| Belgium | 29,900 |
| Hawaiian Kingdom | 28,600 |
| Kingdom of Burundi | 26,900 |
| Zululand | 25,600 |
| People's Republic of Zanzibar | 24,300 |
| Rattanakosin Kingdom | 24,200 |
| 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 |
| Portuguese Timor | 19,400 |
| Luba | 19,400 |
| Dahomey | 19,200 |
| Congo | 19,000 |
| Bundu | 18,900 |
| Sultanate of Oman | 16,700 |
| British Mauritius | 16,000 |
| Sultanate of Terengganu | 14,900 |
| Ivory Coast | 14,900 |
| Colony of Jamaica | 14,700 |
| Ato trading confederacy | 14,400 |
| Sultanate of Brunei | 14,400 |
| Kingdom of Cayor | 14,100 |
| Spanish Guinea | 13,600 |
| Captaincy General of Puerto Rico | 12,800 |
| Swaziland | 12,700 |
| Calabar | 12,300 |
| Shoshone Indian Reservation | 12,200 |
| Benin | 12,100 |
| Sultanate of Selangor | 11,800 |
| Gambia Colony and Protectorate | 11,700 |
| Kingdom of Niani | 11,700 |
| Griqualand West | 10,900 |
| Kingdom of Luang Phrabang | 10,500 |
| Ryukyu Kingdom | 10,500 |
| Futa Toro | 9,840 |
| Prince Edward Island Colony | 9,580 |
| Sultanate of Kedah | 9,370 |
| Algeria (FR) | 9,200 |
| Mapuche | 9,010 |
| Spanish Posessions on the Gulf of Guinea | 8,920 |
| Kelantan | 8,610 |
| Kingdom of Baol | 8,170 |
| Sultanate of Lahej | 8,120 |
| Mozambique | 7,850 |
| Colony of Trinidad | 7,680 |
| Obock Colony | 7,600 |
| Sultanate of Zanzibar | 7,260 |
| Trucial Oman | 7,050 |
| Opobo | 7,000 |
| British Windward Islands | 6,910 |
| Rwanda | 6,070 |
| Kingdom of Kakongo | 6,050 |
| Negeri Sembilan | 5,930 |
| Kingdom of Wuli | 5,410 |
| Colony of the Straits Settlement | 5,260 |
| Natal | 5,180 |
| 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 |
| Chiangmai | 3,310 |
| Cotonou | 3,260 |
| Tahiti Protectorate | 3,100 |
| Samoa | 2,960 |
| Luxembourg | 2,590 |
| Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe | 2,560 |
| Kingdom of Sine | 2,320 |
| Protectorate of Bahrain | 2,180 |
| Confederate States of Lanao | 2,060 |
| German Africa | 1,940 |
| Territory of Ifni | 1,920 |
| Danish West Indies | 1,890 |
| Haushabi Sultanate | 1,860 |
| Mayotte | 1,620 |
| Walvis Bay Colony | 1,610 |
| Cayman Islands | 1,520 |
| Isle of Man | 1,350 |
| Sultanate of Ndzuwani | 1,260 |
| French Nosy Be | 1,110 |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | 1,100 |
| Jersey | 984 |
| Crown Colony of Malta | 925 |
| Sultanate of Mwali | 923 |
| Guernsey | 909 |
| Nosy Boraha | 888 |
| 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 |
| Niue | 252 |
| American Samoa | 234 |
| Polynesians | 192 |
| Wallis and Futuna Islands | 166 |
| British Hong Kong | 160 |
| Heligoland | 156 |
| Liechtenstein | 156 |
| San Marino | 60.1 |
| Monaco | 17.9 |
What changed since 1871
Now drawn
Aden Protectorate
No longer drawn
Colony of British Columbia, Dutch Gold Coast, Colony of Dominica
The same date elsewhere
Map of Europe · 1871–1877 Map of the Middle East · 1872 Map of Africa · 1872 Map of South Asia · 1867–1872 Map of East Asia · 1869–1872 Map of Southeast Asia · 1871–1872 Map of Central Asia · 1859–1873 Map of North America · 1872 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1872–1873 Map of South America · 1864–1879 Map of Oceania · 1871–1874
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.