World map in 1899
On 1 July 1899, IntMap’s historical map draws 188 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 | 5,600,000 |
| British Raj (British India) | 5,080,000 |
| Ottoman Empire | 3,180,000 |
| Argentina | 2,850,000 |
| Anglo-Egyptian Sudan | 2,600,000 |
| Western Australia | 2,530,000 |
| Congo Free State | 2,390,000 |
| Denmark | 2,360,000 |
| South Australia | 2,320,000 |
| French Congo (France) | 2,240,000 |
| Mexico | 1,970,000 |
| Dutch East Indies | 1,900,000 |
| Queensland | 1,750,000 |
| Persia | 1,620,000 |
| Egypt (UK) | 1,520,000 |
| Alaska (USA) | 1,500,000 |
| Angola (Portugal) | 1,350,000 |
| Bolivia | 1,330,000 |
| Peru | 1,280,000 |
| Colombia | 1,170,000 |
| Southern Rhodesia (UK) | 1,050,000 |
| German East Africa | 996,000 |
| Ethiopian Empire | 943,000 |
| Venezuela | 916,000 |
| German South-West Africa | 827,000 |
| New South Wales | 801,000 |
| Mozambique (Portugal) | 790,000 |
| Sweden | 766,000 |
| Northern Nigeria (UK) | 730,000 |
| Cape Colony | 717,000 |
| Chile | 705,000 |
| 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 |
| Bechuanaland (UK) | 580,000 |
| German Empire | 542,000 |
| French Third Republic | 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 |
| 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 (USA) | 299,000 |
| Paraguay | 294,000 |
| Kingdom of Italy | 286,000 |
| New Zealand | 271,000 |
| Gabon (France) | 263,000 |
| Aden Protectorate | 249,000 |
| French Guinea (France) | 246,000 |
| Victoria | 238,000 |
| German New Guinea | 237,000 |
| Laos (France) | 231,000 |
| Papua (UK) | 226,000 |
| Korean Empire | 221,000 |
| Gold Coast (UK) | 213,000 |
| British Guiana (UK) | 212,000 |
| 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 |
| Southern Nigeria (UK) | 131,000 |
| Cambodia (France) | 131,000 |
| Orange Free State | 130,000 |
| Nicaragua | 129,000 |
| Romania | 128,000 |
| Sarawak | 125,000 |
| Eritrea (Italy) | 122,000 |
| Nyasaland (UK) | 119,000 |
| Dahomey (France) | 117,000 |
| Honduras | 113,000 |
| Cuba | 111,000 |
| Guatemala | 109,000 |
| Iceland (Denmark) | 103,000 |
| Khanate of Khiva | 101,000 |
| Liberia | 96,500 |
| Bulgaria | 93,000 |
| Kingdom of Portugal | 92,300 |
| French Guiana (France) | 84,200 |
| German Togoland | 84,100 |
| 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 |
| Serbia | 52,400 |
| Costa Rica | 51,600 |
| Establishments in Oceania | 49,800 |
| Dominican Republic | 48,700 |
| British Empire | 46,800 |
| Switzerland | 41,400 |
| Bosnia (Austria-Hungary) | 41,400 |
| Bhutan | 39,900 |
| Taiwan (Japan) | 36,200 |
| Netherlands | 35,000 |
| Portuguese Guinea (Portugal) | 33,600 |
| Maldives Protectorate | 31,300 |
| Basutoland (UK) | 30,600 |
| Belgium | 30,500 |
| 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 |
| Hawaii (USA) | 17,300 |
| Swaziland (UK) | 17,100 |
| German Solomon Islands | 17,100 |
| Portuguese Timor (Portugal) | 15,300 |
| Bahamas (UK) | 12,800 |
| Jamaica (UK) | 11,200 |
| 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 (USA) | 9,310 |
| Kingdom of Tonga | 8,310 |
| British Colonial Empire | 8,180 |
| British Guiana | 6,900 |
| Mayotte and Dependencies | 6,400 |
| Sultanate of Lahej | 5,980 |
| Zanzibar Protectorate | 5,780 |
| Brunei (UK) | 5,770 |
| Protectorate of Kuwait | 5,640 |
| 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 |
| British Hong Kong | 2,900 |
| Reunion (France) | 2,650 |
| British Solomon Islands Protectorate | 2,620 |
| 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 |
| Kwangchowan | 2,120 |
| 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 1898
Now drawn
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Northern Nigeria (UK), Philippines (USA), Southern Nigeria (UK), Hawaii (USA), Puerto Rico (USA), Protectorate of Kuwait
No longer drawn
Mahdist State, Sokoto Caliphate, Philippines (Spain), Oil Rivers Protectorate (UK), British Africa, Republic of Hawaii, Puerto Rico (Spain), Lagos Colony
The same date elsewhere
Map of Europe · 1890–1904 Map of the Middle East · 1899–1901 Map of Africa · 1899 Map of South Asia · 1888–1911 Map of East Asia · 1899–1905 Map of Southeast Asia · 1899–1905 Map of Central Asia · 1886–1911 Map of North America · 1899–1917 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1899–1903 Map of South America · 1890–1903 Map of Oceania · 1899
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.