World map in 1903
On 1 July 1903, IntMap’s historical map draws 189 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 4 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 |
| Australia | 7,710,000 |
| British Raj (British India) | 5,080,000 |
| French West Africa | 3,810,000 |
| Ottoman Empire | 3,180,000 |
| Argentina | 2,810,000 |
| Anglo-Egyptian Sudan | 2,550,000 |
| Algeria (France) | 2,450,000 |
| Congo Free State | 2,390,000 |
| Denmark | 2,360,000 |
| Mexico | 1,970,000 |
| Dutch East Indies | 1,900,000 |
| 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 |
| Chad (France) | 1,280,000 |
| Colombia | 1,170,000 |
| German East Africa | 996,000 |
| Ethiopian Empire | 995,000 |
| French Congo (France) | 967,000 |
| Venezuela | 916,000 |
| German South-West Africa | 827,000 |
| Mozambique (Portugal) | 790,000 |
| British East Africa (UK) | 776,000 |
| Sweden | 766,000 |
| Chile | 749,000 |
| Northern Nigeria (UK) | 730,000 |
| Cape Colony | 717,000 |
| Emirate of Jabal Shammar | 674,000 |
| 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 |
| Southern Rhodesia (UK) | 391,000 |
| Morocco | 375,000 |
| Italian Somaliland | 373,000 |
| North-Western Rhodesia (UK) | 371,000 |
| 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 |
| North-Eastern Rhodesia (UK) | 287,000 |
| Kingdom of Italy | 286,000 |
| New Zealand | 271,000 |
| Uganda (UK) | 270,000 |
| Gabon (France) | 263,000 |
| Aden Protectorate | 249,000 |
| German New Guinea | 248,000 |
| French Guinea (France) | 246,000 |
| 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 |
| Ceylon (UK) | 66,800 |
| Greece | 65,000 |
| Serbia | 52,400 |
| Costa Rica | 51,600 |
| 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 |
| British Solomon Islands (UK) | 27,800 |
| 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 |
| Unfederated Malay States | 19,300 |
| Fiji (UK) | 18,500 |
| New Hebrides | 17,400 |
| Hawaii (USA) | 17,300 |
| Swaziland (UK) | 17,100 |
| Portuguese Timor (Portugal) | 15,300 |
| French Polynesia (France) | 13,000 |
| Bahamas (UK) | 12,800 |
| Jamaica (UK) | 11,200 |
| Gambia (UK) | 10,900 |
| Gilbert and Ellice Islands Protectorate | 10,800 |
| Brazilian Republic | 10,700 |
| Colony of Seychelles | 10,300 |
| Herzegovina (Austria-Hungary) | 10,100 |
| Montenegro | 9,990 |
| Puerto Rico (USA) | 9,310 |
| Protectorate 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 |
| German Samoa | 5,240 |
| Trinidad and Tobago (UK) | 5,240 |
| British Windward Islands | 4,870 |
| Colony of Guadelupe | 4,740 |
| Cook Islands | 4,410 |
| 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 |
| Emirate of Nejd | 53.2 |
| Maldives (UK) | 27.8 |
What changed since 1902
Now drawn
French Polynesia (France), Colony of Seychelles
No longer drawn
Establishments in Oceania
The same date elsewhere
Map of Europe · 1890–1904 Map of the Middle East · 1902–1911 Map of Africa · 1903 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 · 1903–1905
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.