World map in 1890
On 1 July 1890, IntMap’s historical map draws 202 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 |
| 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 |
| French Republic | 1,660,000 |
| Persia | 1,620,000 |
| Alaska (USA) | 1,500,000 |
| Bolivia | 1,330,000 |
| Peru | 1,280,000 |
| French Sudan | 1,260,000 |
| Colombia | 1,170,000 |
| Egypt (UK) | 1,170,000 |
| Ethiopian Empire | 1,110,000 |
| German East Africa | 1,000,000 |
| Venezuela | 916,000 |
| German South-West Africa | 827,000 |
| Afghanistan | 809,000 |
| French Third Republic | 802,000 |
| 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 |
| Bechuanaland (UK) | 578,000 |
| German Empire | 566,000 |
| Barotziland | 513,000 |
| Kamerun | 513,000 |
| Spain | 507,000 |
| British East Africa (UK) | 472,000 |
| Angola (Portugal) | 412,000 |
| Newfoundland | 400,000 |
| Empire of Japan | 393,000 |
| Southern Rhodesia (UK) | 391,000 |
| Vietnam (France) | 382,000 |
| Emirate of Jabal Shammar | 376,000 |
| Morocco | 375,000 |
| Italian Somaliland | 373,000 |
| French Congo (France) | 346,000 |
| Ecuador | 344,000 |
| Cote d'Ivoire (France) | 323,000 |
| United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | 316,000 |
| Muscat and Oman | 310,000 |
| Transvaal | 302,000 |
| Philippines (Spain) | 299,000 |
| Paraguay | 294,000 |
| Kingdom of Italy | 286,000 |
| Wadai Empire | 281,000 |
| French Congo | 271,000 |
| New Zealand | 271,000 |
| French Africa | 270,000 |
| Gabon (France) | 263,000 |
| Aden Protectorate | 247,000 |
| Victoria | 238,000 |
| German New Guinea | 233,000 |
| Papua (UK) | 226,000 |
| Joseon | 221,000 |
| British Guiana (UK) | 212,000 |
| 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 |
| Imperial British East Africa Company | 148,000 |
| Nepal | 147,000 |
| Dutch Guiana (Netherlands) | 146,000 |
| Province of Mozambique | 141,000 |
| Oil Rivers Protectorate (UK) | 131,000 |
| Cambodia (France) | 131,000 |
| Orange Free State | 130,000 |
| Kingdom of Portugal | 129,000 |
| Nicaragua | 129,000 |
| Gold Coast (UK) | 129,000 |
| Romania | 128,000 |
| Sarawak | 125,000 |
| Kingdom of Spain | 123,000 |
| Spanish Empire | 123,000 |
| Eritrea (Italy) | 122,000 |
| British Bechuanaland | 117,000 |
| Honduras | 113,000 |
| Emirate of Nejd | 112,000 |
| Cuba | 111,000 |
| Guatemala | 109,000 |
| Iceland (Denmark) | 103,000 |
| North-Western Rhodesia | 102,000 |
| Khanate of Khiva | 101,000 |
| Sultanate of Dar al Kuti | 100,000 |
| Liberia | 96,500 |
| Bulgaria | 93,000 |
| French Guiana (France) | 84,200 |
| Trucial States | 80,900 |
| North Borneo (UK) | 73,300 |
| Sierra Leone (UK) | 72,900 |
| Lagos Colony (UK) | 72,000 |
| Tasmania | 68,800 |
| Ceylon (UK) | 66,800 |
| Greece | 65,000 |
| German Togoland | 53,600 |
| Serbia | 52,400 |
| Costa Rica | 51,600 |
| Establishments in Oceania | 49,800 |
| Dominican Republic | 48,700 |
| British Empire | 48,100 |
| Natal | 43,700 |
| Switzerland | 41,400 |
| Bosnia (Austria-Hungary) | 41,400 |
| Bhutan | 39,900 |
| Portuguese Empire | 37,000 |
| Pahang | 36,500 |
| Netherlands | 35,000 |
| Portuguese Guinea (Portugal) | 33,600 |
| Maldives Protectorate | 31,300 |
| Basutoland (UK) | 30,600 |
| Belgium | 30,500 |
| Togoland Protectorate | 29,700 |
| Hawaiian Kingdom | 28,600 |
| Haiti | 27,500 |
| Spanish Guinea (Spain) | 27,200 |
| German Protectorate of the Marshall Islands | 26,600 |
| New Caledonia (France) | 24,000 |
| British Honduras (UK) | 22,300 |
| French Somaliland (France) | 21,600 |
| Sultanate of Hobyo | 21,400 |
| El Salvador | 20,700 |
| Kingdom of Dahomey | 20,400 |
| Unfederated Malay States | 19,300 |
| Fiji (UK) | 18,500 |
| Perak | 18,200 |
| Zululand | 18,000 |
| New Hebrides | 17,400 |
| 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 |
| Gambia (UK) | 10,900 |
| Brazilian Republic | 10,700 |
| Herzegovina (Austria-Hungary) | 10,100 |
| Montenegro | 9,990 |
| South African Republic | 9,690 |
| Puerto Rico (Spain) | 9,310 |
| Kingdom of Tonga | 8,310 |
| British Colonial Empire | 8,180 |
| Negri Sembilan Protectorate | 6,960 |
| Selangore | 6,900 |
| British Guiana | 6,900 |
| Lagos Colony | 6,020 |
| Sultanate of Lahej | 5,980 |
| Mayotte and Dependencies | 5,870 |
| Zanzibar Protectorate | 5,780 |
| Brunei (UK) | 5,770 |
| Trinidad and Tobago (UK) | 5,240 |
| British Windward Islands | 4,870 |
| Colony of Guadelupe | 4,740 |
| Cape Verde | 4,040 |
| La Réunion | 3,930 |
| Straits Settlements | 3,700 |
| Reunion (France) | 2,650 |
| Sultanate of Zanzibar | 2,600 |
| Luxembourg | 2,570 |
| Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe | 2,560 |
| Protectorate of Bahrain | 2,180 |
| Negeri Sembilan | 2,170 |
| 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 |
| Tokelau Islands Protectorate | 1,010 |
| Jersey | 986 |
| Sultanate of Mwali | 924 |
| Guernsey | 909 |
| French Settlements in India | 727 |
| Pitcairn Islands | 691 |
| Colony of Bermuda | 557 |
| Saint Helena Crown Colony | 507 |
| Barbados (UK) | 457 |
| Malta | 292 |
| Maldives (UK) | 27.8 |
What changed since 1889
Now drawn
Brazil, French Republic, French Sudan, Barotziland, Italian Somaliland, North-Western Rhodesia, New Hebrides, Gambia (UK), Brazilian Republic, South African Republic, Zanzibar Protectorate, Negeri Sembilan
No longer drawn
Empire of Brazil, Upper River, Majeerteen Sultanate, Kingdom of Rwanda, British Africa, Kingdom of Burundi, Nieuwe Republiek, Heligoland
The same date elsewhere
Map of Europe · 1890–1904 Map of the Middle East · 1890–1891 Map of Africa · 1890 Map of South Asia · 1888–1911 Map of East Asia · 1887–1893 Map of Southeast Asia · 1890–1893 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 · 1890–1903 Map of Oceania · 1890–1891
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.