World map in 1892

On 1 July 1892, IntMap’s historical map draws 199 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 3 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.

NameDrawn area in view (km²)
Russian Empire22,000,000
Qing Empire11,100,000
Canada9,530,000
Brazil8,350,000
United States7,940,000
British Raj (British India)4,910,000
Ottoman Empire3,210,000
Argentina2,810,000
Western Australia2,530,000
Denmark2,360,000
Congo Free State2,340,000
South Australia2,320,000
Mahdist State2,220,000
Mexico1,970,000
Dutch East Indies1,900,000
Queensland1,750,000
French Republic1,660,000
Persia1,620,000
Alaska (USA)1,500,000
Angola (Portugal)1,350,000
Bolivia1,330,000
Peru1,280,000
French Sudan1,260,000
Colombia1,170,000
Egypt (UK)1,170,000
Southern Rhodesia (UK)1,050,000
British East Africa (UK)1,050,000
German East Africa996,000
Ethiopian Empire973,000
Venezuela916,000
German South-West Africa827,000
Afghanistan809,000
New South Wales801,000
Mozambique (Portugal)790,000
Siam782,000
Sweden766,000
Chile752,000
Sokoto Caliphate668,000
Algeria (France)656,000
Austria-Hungary622,000
Cape Colony602,000
Madagascar (France)596,000
Bechuanaland (UK)578,000
German Empire566,000
French Third Republic555,000
Kamerun513,000
Spain507,000
Newfoundland400,000
Empire of Japan393,000
Vietnam (France)382,000
French Congo378,000
Emirate of Jabal Shammar376,000
Morocco375,000
Italian Somaliland373,000
French Congo (France)346,000
Ecuador344,000
Cote d'Ivoire (France)323,000
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland316,000
Muscat and Oman310,000
Transvaal302,000
Philippines (Spain)299,000
Paraguay294,000
Kingdom of Italy286,000
Wadai Empire281,000
New Zealand271,000
Gabon (France)263,000
French Guinea249,000
Aden Protectorate247,000
Victoria238,000
German New Guinea233,000
Papua (UK)226,000
Joseon221,000
British Guiana (UK)212,000
Senegal (France)197,000
Emirate of Bukhara194,000
Uruguay178,000
Bornu Empire178,000
Spanish West Africa177,000
British Somaliland (UK)173,000
Tunisia (France)156,000
Nepal147,000
Dutch Guiana (Netherlands)146,000
Oil Rivers Protectorate (UK)131,000
Cambodia (France)131,000
Orange Free State130,000
Nicaragua129,000
Gold Coast (UK)129,000
Romania128,000
Sarawak125,000
Kingdom of Spain123,000
Spanish Empire123,000
Eritrea (Italy)122,000
Nyasaland (UK)119,000
British Bechuanaland117,000
Honduras113,000
Cuba111,000
Guatemala109,000
Iceland (Denmark)103,000
Khanate of Khiva101,000
Sultanate of Dar al Kuti100,000
Liberia96,500
Bulgaria93,000
Kingdom of Portugal92,300
French Guiana (France)84,200
North Borneo (UK)73,300
Sierra Leone (UK)72,900
Lagos Colony (UK)72,000
Trucial Oman (UK)70,900
Tasmania68,800
Ceylon (UK)66,800
Greece65,000
German Togoland53,600
Serbia52,400
Costa Rica51,600
Establishments in Oceania49,800
Dominican Republic48,700
British Empire48,100
Natal43,700
Switzerland41,400
Bosnia (Austria-Hungary)41,400
Bhutan39,900
Pahang36,500
Netherlands35,000
Portuguese Guinea (Portugal)33,600
Maldives Protectorate31,300
Basutoland (UK)30,600
Belgium30,500
Protectorat français l'ëmirat de Muri29,800
Togoland Protectorate29,700
Hawaiian Kingdom28,600
Haiti27,500
Spanish Guinea (Spain)27,200
German Protectorate of the Marshall Islands26,600
New Caledonia (France)24,000
French Africa22,800
British Honduras (UK)22,300
French Somaliland (France)21,600
Sultanate of Hobyo21,400
El Salvador20,700
Kingdom of Dahomey20,400
Unfederated Malay States19,300
Fiji (UK)18,500
Perak18,200
Zululand18,000
New Hebrides17,400
Swaziland17,200
German Solomon Islands17,100
Portuguese Timor (Portugal)15,300
German Cameroon14,800
Bahamas (UK)12,800
Jamaica (UK)11,200
Gambia (UK)10,900
Brazilian Republic10,700
Gilbert and Ellice Islands Protectorate10,600
Herzegovina (Austria-Hungary)10,100
Montenegro9,990
South African Republic9,690
Puerto Rico (Spain)9,310
Kingdom of Tonga8,310
British Colonial Empire8,180
Negri Sembilan Protectorate6,960
Selangore6,900
British Guiana6,900
Lagos Colony6,020
Sultanate of Lahej5,980
Mayotte and Dependencies5,870
Zanzibar Protectorate5,780
Brunei (UK)5,770
Trinidad and Tobago (UK)5,240
British Windward Islands4,870
Colony of Guadelupe4,740
Cape Verde4,040
La Réunion3,930
Straits Settlements3,700
Reunion (France)2,650
Sultanate of Zanzibar2,600
Luxembourg2,570
Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe2,560
Protectorate of Bahrain2,180
Negeri Sembilan2,170
Mauritius (UK)2,160
Danish West Indies1,890
Guadeloupe (France)1,660
Cayman Islands1,520
Isle of Man1,350
Sultanate of Ndzuwani1,260
Martinique (France)1,200
Saint Pierre and Miquelon1,100
Tokelau Islands Protectorate1,010
Jersey986
Sultanate of Mwali924
Guernsey909
French Settlements in India727
Pitcairn Islands691
Colony of Bermuda557
Saint Helena Crown Colony507
Barbados (UK)457
Malta292
Maldives (UK)27.8

What changed since 1891

Now drawn

Trucial Oman (UK), Protectorat français l'ëmirat de Muri, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Protectorate

No longer drawn

Emirate of Nejd, Trucial States

The same date elsewhere

Map of Europe · 1890–1904 Map of the Middle East · 1892–1897 Map of Africa · 1892–1893 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 · 1892

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.

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