World map in 1897
On 1 July 1897, IntMap’s historical map draws 193 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 5 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 |
| French West Africa | 5,720,000 |
| British Raj (British India) | 5,080,000 |
| Ottoman Empire | 3,190,000 |
| Argentina | 2,810,000 |
| Western Australia | 2,530,000 |
| Congo Free State | 2,390,000 |
| Denmark | 2,360,000 |
| South Australia | 2,320,000 |
| Mahdist State | 2,170,000 |
| Mexico | 1,970,000 |
| Dutch East Indies | 1,900,000 |
| Queensland | 1,750,000 |
| Persia | 1,620,000 |
| Alaska (USA) | 1,500,000 |
| Angola (Portugal) | 1,350,000 |
| Bolivia | 1,330,000 |
| Peru | 1,280,000 |
| Colombia | 1,170,000 |
| Egypt (UK) | 1,170,000 |
| Southern Rhodesia (UK) | 1,050,000 |
| German East Africa | 996,000 |
| Ethiopian Empire | 994,000 |
| Venezuela | 916,000 |
| German South-West Africa | 827,000 |
| New South Wales | 801,000 |
| Mozambique (Portugal) | 790,000 |
| Sweden | 766,000 |
| Chile | 752,000 |
| French Third Republic | 751,000 |
| Cape Colony | 717,000 |
| Emirate of Jabal Shammar | 674,000 |
| British East Africa (UK) | 663,000 |
| Algeria (France) | 656,000 |
| Afghanistan | 642,000 |
| Austria-Hungary | 622,000 |
| Siam | 608,000 |
| Madagascar (France) | 596,000 |
| Sokoto Caliphate | 586,000 |
| Bechuanaland (UK) | 580,000 |
| German Empire | 542,000 |
| Kamerun | 513,000 |
| Spain | 507,000 |
| Newfoundland | 400,000 |
| Empire of Japan | 393,000 |
| Uganda (UK) | 383,000 |
| Morocco | 375,000 |
| Italian Somaliland | 373,000 |
| French Congo (France) | 346,000 |
| Ecuador | 344,000 |
| Vietnam (France) | 327,000 |
| 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 | 280,000 |
| French Congo | 271,000 |
| New Zealand | 271,000 |
| Gabon (France) | 263,000 |
| Aden Protectorate | 249,000 |
| French Guinea (France) | 246,000 |
| Victoria | 238,000 |
| German New Guinea | 233,000 |
| Laos (France) | 231,000 |
| Papua (UK) | 226,000 |
| Korean Empire | 221,000 |
| British Guiana (UK) | 212,000 |
| French Africa | 210,000 |
| Senegal (France) | 197,000 |
| Emirate of Bukhara | 194,000 |
| Uruguay | 178,000 |
| Spanish West Africa | 177,000 |
| British Somaliland (UK) | 173,000 |
| Tunisia (France) | 156,000 |
| Nepal | 147,000 |
| Dutch Guiana (Netherlands) | 146,000 |
| Oil Rivers Protectorate (UK) | 131,000 |
| Cambodia (France) | 131,000 |
| Orange Free State | 130,000 |
| Nicaragua | 129,000 |
| Gold Coast (UK) | 129,000 |
| Romania | 128,000 |
| Sarawak | 125,000 |
| Eritrea (Italy) | 122,000 |
| Nyasaland (UK) | 119,000 |
| Honduras | 113,000 |
| Cuba | 111,000 |
| Guatemala | 109,000 |
| Upper-Ubangi | 108,000 |
| Iceland (Denmark) | 103,000 |
| Khanate of Khiva | 101,000 |
| Sultanate of Dar al Kuti | 100,000 |
| Liberia | 96,500 |
| Bulgaria | 93,000 |
| Kingdom of Portugal | 92,300 |
| French Guiana (France) | 84,200 |
| North Borneo (UK) | 73,300 |
| Sierra Leone (UK) | 72,900 |
| Natal | 72,500 |
| Lagos Colony (UK) | 72,000 |
| Trucial Oman (UK) | 70,900 |
| Federated Malay States | 69,200 |
| Tasmania | 68,800 |
| Ceylon (UK) | 66,800 |
| Greece | 65,000 |
| British Empire | 55,900 |
| German Togoland | 53,600 |
| Serbia | 52,400 |
| Costa Rica | 51,600 |
| Establishments in Oceania | 49,800 |
| Dominican Republic | 48,700 |
| Switzerland | 41,400 |
| Bosnia (Austria-Hungary) | 41,400 |
| Bhutan | 39,900 |
| Dahomey (France) | 36,400 |
| Taiwan (Japan) | 36,200 |
| Netherlands | 35,000 |
| Portuguese Guinea (Portugal) | 33,600 |
| Maldives Protectorate | 31,300 |
| Basutoland (UK) | 30,600 |
| Belgium | 30,500 |
| Togoland Protectorate | 29,700 |
| Republic of Hawaii | 28,400 |
| 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 |
| El Salvador | 20,700 |
| British Solomon Islands (UK) | 20,300 |
| Unfederated Malay States | 19,300 |
| Fiji (UK) | 18,500 |
| New Hebrides | 17,400 |
| Swaziland (UK) | 17,100 |
| German Solomon Islands | 17,100 |
| Portuguese Timor (Portugal) | 15,300 |
| German Cameroon | 14,800 |
| Bahamas (UK) | 12,800 |
| Jamaica (UK) | 11,200 |
| British Colonial Empire | 11,000 |
| Gambia (UK) | 10,900 |
| Brazilian Republic | 10,700 |
| Gilbert and Ellice Islands Protectorate | 10,600 |
| Herzegovina (Austria-Hungary) | 10,100 |
| Montenegro | 9,990 |
| Puerto Rico (Spain) | 9,310 |
| British Africa | 9,110 |
| Kingdom of Tonga | 8,310 |
| British Guiana | 6,900 |
| Mayotte and Dependencies | 6,400 |
| Lagos Colony | 6,020 |
| Sultanate of Lahej | 5,980 |
| 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 |
| British Western Pacific Territories | 2,620 |
| Sultanate of Zanzibar | 2,600 |
| 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 |
| 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 1896
Now drawn
Korean Empire
No longer drawn
Joseon, Sultanate of Hobyo
The same date elsewhere
Map of Europe · 1890–1904 Map of the Middle East · 1892–1897 Map of Africa · 1897 Map of South Asia · 1888–1911 Map of East Asia · 1897 Map of Southeast Asia · 1896–1897 Map of Central Asia · 1886–1911 Map of North America · 1894–1898 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1886–1898 Map of South America · 1890–1903 Map of Oceania · 1894–1897
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.