World map in 1910
On 1 July 1910, IntMap’s historical map draws 190 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 | 8,520,000 |
| United States | 7,940,000 |
| Australia | 7,710,000 |
| British Raj (British India) | 5,080,000 |
| Ottoman Empire | 3,180,000 |
| Argentina | 2,810,000 |
| Anglo-Egyptian Sudan | 2,590,000 |
| Algeria (France) | 2,450,000 |
| Denmark | 2,360,000 |
| Belgian Congo (Belgium) | 2,340,000 |
| Mexico | 1,970,000 |
| Dutch East Indies | 1,900,000 |
| French Sudan (France) | 1,740,000 |
| Persia | 1,620,000 |
| Egypt (UK) | 1,520,000 |
| Alaska (USA) | 1,500,000 |
| Chad (France) | 1,280,000 |
| Angola (Portugal) | 1,250,000 |
| Peru | 1,250,000 |
| Union of South Africa | 1,220,000 |
| Bolivia | 1,200,000 |
| Niger (France) | 1,190,000 |
| Ethiopian Empire | 1,130,000 |
| Colombia | 1,100,000 |
| German East Africa | 996,000 |
| Venezuela | 929,000 |
| Mauritania (France) | 922,000 |
| German South-West Africa | 827,000 |
| Mozambique (Portugal) | 790,000 |
| Chile | 749,000 |
| Austria-Hungary | 674,000 |
| Northern Nigeria (UK) | 663,000 |
| Afghanistan | 642,000 |
| British East Africa (UK) | 639,000 |
| Ubangi-Shari (France) | 621,000 |
| Madagascar (France) | 596,000 |
| Bechuanaland (UK) | 580,000 |
| German Empire | 542,000 |
| French Third Republic | 542,000 |
| Siam | 515,000 |
| Kamerun | 513,000 |
| Spain | 507,000 |
| North-Western Rhodesia (UK) | 468,000 |
| Sweden | 444,000 |
| Newfoundland | 400,000 |
| Empire of Japan | 393,000 |
| Southern Rhodesia (UK) | 391,000 |
| Emirate of Nejd | 374,000 |
| Italian Somaliland | 373,000 |
| Morocco | 351,000 |
| French Congo (France) | 346,000 |
| Ecuador | 344,000 |
| Vietnam (France) | 327,000 |
| Cote d'Ivoire (France) | 323,000 |
| Norway | 322,000 |
| United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | 316,000 |
| Muscat and Oman | 310,000 |
| Philippines (USA) | 299,000 |
| Paraguay | 294,000 |
| North-Eastern Rhodesia (UK) | 287,000 |
| Kingdom of Italy | 286,000 |
| Uganda (UK) | 284,000 |
| New Zealand | 271,000 |
| Gabon (France) | 263,000 |
| Aden Protectorate | 249,000 |
| German New Guinea | 248,000 |
| French Guinea (France) | 246,000 |
| Laos (France) | 231,000 |
| Papua (Australia) | 226,000 |
| Korean Empire | 221,000 |
| Gold Coast (UK) | 213,000 |
| British Guiana (UK) | 212,000 |
| Southern Nigeria (UK) | 204,000 |
| Senegal (France) | 197,000 |
| Emirate of Bukhara | 194,000 |
| Cambodia (France) | 183,000 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Emirate of Jabal Shammar | 84,400 |
| French Guiana (France) | 84,200 |
| German Togoland | 84,100 |
| Panama | 75,500 |
| North Borneo (UK) | 73,300 |
| Sierra Leone (UK) | 72,900 |
| Federated Malay States | 71,900 |
| Trucial Oman (UK) | 70,900 |
| Ceylon (UK) | 66,800 |
| Greece | 65,000 |
| Unfederated Malay States | 57,600 |
| Serbia | 52,400 |
| Costa Rica | 51,600 |
| British Empire | 49,300 |
| Dominican Republic | 48,700 |
| Switzerland | 41,400 |
| Bhutan | 39,900 |
| Taiwan (Japan) | 36,200 |
| Netherlands | 35,000 |
| Karafuto (Japan) | 33,800 |
| Portuguese Guinea (Portugal) | 33,600 |
| Maldives Protectorate | 31,300 |
| Basutoland (UK) | 30,600 |
| Belgium | 30,500 |
| New Hebrides / Nouvelles-Hébrides | 28,300 |
| British Solomon Islands (UK) | 27,800 |
| Haiti | 27,500 |
| Kingdom of Spain | 27,400 |
| Spanish Empire | 27,400 |
| Spanish Guinea (Spain) | 27,200 |
| Alawi Sultanate | 26,200 |
| New Caledonia (France) | 24,000 |
| British Honduras (UK) | 22,300 |
| French Somaliland (France) | 21,600 |
| El Salvador | 20,700 |
| Fiji (UK) | 18,500 |
| Hawaii (USA) | 17,300 |
| Swaziland (UK) | 17,100 |
| British Western Pacific Territories | 15,700 |
| 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 |
| Montenegro | 9,990 |
| Puerto Rico (USA) | 9,310 |
| Protectorate of Tonga | 8,310 |
| British Colonial Empire | 8,180 |
| Colony of Seychelles | 7,520 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 1909
Now drawn
Union of South Africa
No longer drawn
Cape Colony, Transvaal, Orange Free State, Natal, Sultanate of Mwali
The same date elsewhere
Map of Europe · 1909–1910 Map of the Middle East · 1902–1911 Map of Africa · 1910 Map of South Asia · 1888–1911 Map of East Asia · 1906–1910 Map of Southeast Asia · 1906–1911 Map of Central Asia · 1886–1911 Map of North America · 1899–1917 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1904–1916 Map of South America · 1904–1923 Map of Oceania · 1908–1914
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.