World map in 1887
On 1 July 1887, IntMap’s historical map draws 197 names within the world. The borders for this date come from CShapes 2.0 (day by day), then OpenHistoricalMap (day by day), then Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (by year) — each drawn only where the records before it are silent. The map also draws 2 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 | 22,000,000 |
| Qing Empire | 11,100,000 |
| Canada | 9,530,000 |
| Empire of Brazil | 8,350,000 |
| United States | 7,940,000 |
| British Raj (British India) | 4,910,000 |
| Ottoman Empire | 3,210,000 |
| Argentina | 2,810,000 |
| Western Australia | 2,530,000 |
| Denmark | 2,360,000 |
| Congo Free State | 2,340,000 |
| South Australia | 2,320,000 |
| Mahdist State | 2,230,000 |
| Mexico | 1,970,000 |
| Dutch East Indies | 1,900,000 |
| Queensland | 1,750,000 |
| Persia | 1,620,000 |
| Alaska (USA) | 1,500,000 |
| Bolivia | 1,330,000 |
| Peru | 1,280,000 |
| Upper River | 1,260,000 |
| Colombia | 1,170,000 |
| Egypt (UK) | 1,170,000 |
| German East Africa | 956,000 |
| Venezuela | 916,000 |
| German South-West Africa | 827,000 |
| Afghanistan | 809,000 |
| French Third Republic | 803,000 |
| New South Wales | 801,000 |
| Siam | 782,000 |
| Sweden | 766,000 |
| Chile | 752,000 |
| Sokoto Caliphate | 694,000 |
| Algeria (France) | 656,000 |
| Mozambique (Portugal) | 637,000 |
| Austria-Hungary | 622,000 |
| Portuguese Angola | 612,000 |
| Cape Colony | 602,000 |
| Madagascar (France) | 596,000 |
| German Empire | 542,000 |
| Kamerun | 513,000 |
| Spain | 507,000 |
| Angola (Portugal) | 412,000 |
| Newfoundland | 400,000 |
| Empire of Japan | 393,000 |
| Vietnam (France) | 382,000 |
| Morocco | 375,000 |
| French Congo (France) | 346,000 |
| Ecuador | 344,000 |
| United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | 316,000 |
| Muscat and Oman | 310,000 |
| Bechuanaland (UK) | 309,000 |
| Transvaal | 302,000 |
| Philippines (Spain) | 299,000 |
| Ethiopian Empire | 297,000 |
| Paraguay | 294,000 |
| Kingdom of Italy | 286,000 |
| Wadai Empire | 281,000 |
| French Africa | 271,000 |
| French Congo | 271,000 |
| New Zealand | 271,000 |
| Emirate of Nejd | 266,000 |
| Gabon (France) | 263,000 |
| Aden Protectorate | 247,000 |
| Victoria | 238,000 |
| German New Guinea | 233,000 |
| Papua (UK) | 226,000 |
| Emirate of Jabal Shammar | 222,000 |
| Joseon | 221,000 |
| British Guiana (UK) | 212,000 |
| Kingdom of Portugal | 198,000 |
| Senegal (France) | 197,000 |
| Emirate of Bukhara | 194,000 |
| Uruguay | 178,000 |
| Bornu Empire | 178,000 |
| Spanish West Africa | 177,000 |
| British Somaliland (UK) | 173,000 |
| Tunisia (France) | 156,000 |
| Nepal | 147,000 |
| Dutch Guiana (Netherlands) | 146,000 |
| Province of Mozambique | 143,000 |
| Sultanate of Hobyo | 134,000 |
| Oil Rivers Protectorate (UK) | 131,000 |
| Cambodia (France) | 131,000 |
| Orange Free State | 130,000 |
| Nicaragua | 129,000 |
| Romania | 128,000 |
| Raj of Sarawak | 126,000 |
| British Bechuanaland | 117,000 |
| Honduras | 113,000 |
| Cuba | 111,000 |
| Guatemala | 109,000 |
| Portuguese Empire | 106,000 |
| Iceland (Denmark) | 103,000 |
| Khanate of Khiva | 101,000 |
| Majeerteen Sultanate | 100,000 |
| Sultanate of Dar al Kuti | 100,000 |
| Liberia | 96,500 |
| Ashanti Empire | 96,200 |
| Bulgaria | 93,000 |
| North Borneo | 88,300 |
| French Guiana (France) | 84,200 |
| Sierra Leone (UK) | 83,800 |
| British Empire | 81,200 |
| Trucial States | 80,900 |
| Togoland Protectorate | 73,800 |
| Lagos Colony (UK) | 72,000 |
| Tasmania | 68,800 |
| Gold Coast (UK) | 68,700 |
| Ceylon (UK) | 66,800 |
| Greece | 65,000 |
| Serbia | 52,400 |
| Costa Rica | 51,600 |
| British Colonial Empire | 49,100 |
| Dominican Republic | 48,700 |
| Natal | 43,700 |
| Switzerland | 41,400 |
| Bosnia (Austria-Hungary) | 41,400 |
| Bhutan | 39,900 |
| Pahang Sultanate | 36,900 |
| Netherlands | 35,000 |
| Portuguese Guinea (Portugal) | 33,600 |
| British Africa | 32,900 |
| Kingdom of Rwanda | 32,500 |
| Maldives Protectorate | 31,300 |
| Sultanate of the Maldive Islands | 31,300 |
| Basutoland (UK) | 30,600 |
| Belgium | 30,500 |
| Hawaiian Kingdom | 28,600 |
| Haiti | 27,500 |
| Spanish Guinea (Spain) | 27,200 |
| Kingdom of Burundi | 26,900 |
| German Protectorate of the Marshall Islands | 26,300 |
| New Caledonia (France) | 24,000 |
| Kingdom of Spain | 23,600 |
| Spanish Empire | 23,600 |
| British Honduras (UK) | 22,300 |
| French Somaliland (France) | 21,600 |
| El Salvador | 20,700 |
| Kingdom of Dahomey | 20,400 |
| Unfederated Malay States | 19,300 |
| Eritrea (Italy) | 19,300 |
| Fiji (UK) | 18,500 |
| Perak | 18,200 |
| Zululand | 18,000 |
| Swaziland | 17,200 |
| German Solomon Islands | 17,100 |
| Portuguese Timor (Portugal) | 15,300 |
| German Cameroon | 14,800 |
| Bahamas (UK) | 12,800 |
| Jamaica (UK) | 11,200 |
| Sultanate of Brunei | 10,900 |
| Nieuwe Republiek | 10,200 |
| Herzegovina (Austria-Hungary) | 10,100 |
| Montenegro | 9,990 |
| Puerto Rico (Spain) | 9,310 |
| Kingdom of Tonga | 8,310 |
| Protectorate of Wituland | 8,030 |
| Sultanate of Zanzibar | 7,260 |
| Negri Sembilan Protectorate | 6,960 |
| Selangore | 6,900 |
| British Guiana | 6,900 |
| German Togoland | 6,850 |
| Lagos Colony | 6,020 |
| Sultanate of Lahej | 5,980 |
| British Windward Islands | 5,890 |
| Mayotte and Dependencies | 5,870 |
| Trinidad and Tobago (UK) | 5,220 |
| Colony of Guadelupe | 4,740 |
| People's Republic of Zanzibar | 4,350 |
| Cape Verde | 4,040 |
| La Réunion | 3,930 |
| Straits Settlements | 3,700 |
| Tahiti Colony | 3,100 |
| Reunion (France) | 2,650 |
| Luxembourg | 2,570 |
| Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe | 2,560 |
| Protectorate of Bahrain | 2,180 |
| Mauritius (UK) | 2,160 |
| Danish West Indies | 1,890 |
| Guadeloupe (France) | 1,660 |
| Cayman Islands | 1,520 |
| Isle of Man | 1,350 |
| Sultanate of Ndzuwani | 1,260 |
| Martinique (France) | 1,200 |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | 1,100 |
| Jersey | 986 |
| Sultanate of Mwali | 924 |
| Guernsey | 909 |
| French Settlements in India | 727 |
| Pitcairn Islands | 691 |
| Colony of Labuan | 638 |
| Colony of Bermuda | 557 |
| Saint Helena Crown Colony | 507 |
| Barbados (UK) | 457 |
| Malta | 292 |
| Heligoland | 156 |
What changed since 1886
Now drawn
Vietnam (France), Maldives Protectorate
No longer drawn
Annam, Sultanate of Qishn and Socotra
The same date elsewhere
Map of Europe · 1886–1889 Map of the Middle East · 1887–1889 Map of Africa · 1887 Map of South Asia · 1887 Map of East Asia · 1887–1893 Map of Southeast Asia · 1887 Map of Central Asia · 1886–1911 Map of North America · 1886–1893 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1886–1898 Map of South America · 1886–1889 Map of Oceania · 1886–1888
Source and method
Borders and names: CShapes 2.0 (Schvitz et al. 2022, icr.ethz.ch/data/cshapes) · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 + OpenHistoricalMap (openhistoricalmap.org) · CC0 1.0 · adapted by IntMap: the admin_level=2 relations in force from 1886, less the ground CShapes states on its own dates + 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 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.