World map in 1917
On 1 July 1917, 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 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 | 22,100,000 |
| Canada | 9,530,000 |
| Republic of China | 9,060,000 |
| Brazil | 8,520,000 |
| United States | 7,940,000 |
| Australia | 7,710,000 |
| British Raj (British India) | 4,910,000 |
| 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 |
| Ottoman Empire | 1,980,000 |
| Mexico | 1,970,000 |
| Dutch East Indies | 1,900,000 |
| Tibet | 1,810,000 |
| French Sudan (France) | 1,740,000 |
| Persia | 1,620,000 |
| Egypt (UK) | 1,520,000 |
| Alaska (USA) | 1,500,000 |
| Angola (Portugal) | 1,250,000 |
| Peru | 1,250,000 |
| Chad (France) | 1,230,000 |
| 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 |
| Libya (Italy) | 884,000 |
| Nigeria (UK) | 867,000 |
| Mauritania (France) | 829,000 |
| South West Africa (South Africa) | 827,000 |
| Kamerun | 804,000 |
| Mozambique (Portugal) | 790,000 |
| Northern Rhodesia (UK) | 755,000 |
| Chile | 749,000 |
| Austria-Hungary | 674,000 |
| Afghanistan | 642,000 |
| British East Africa (UK) | 639,000 |
| Madagascar (France) | 598,000 |
| Bechuanaland (UK) | 580,000 |
| German Empire | 542,000 |
| French Third Republic | 542,000 |
| Siam | 515,000 |
| Spain | 507,000 |
| Ubangi-Shari (France) | 498,000 |
| Sweden | 444,000 |
| Emirate of Nejd | 421,000 |
| Newfoundland | 400,000 |
| Empire of Japan | 393,000 |
| Southern Rhodesia (UK) | 391,000 |
| Italian Somaliland | 373,000 |
| Morocco (France) | 351,000 |
| 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 |
| Kingdom of Italy | 288,000 |
| Uganda (UK) | 284,000 |
| New Zealand | 271,000 |
| Spanish West Africa | 270,000 |
| French Congo (France) | 264,000 |
| Aden Protectorate | 249,000 |
| French Guinea (France) | 246,000 |
| Emirate of Jabal Shammar | 245,000 |
| Laos (France) | 231,000 |
| German New Guinea | 230,000 |
| Gabon (France) | 228,000 |
| Papua (Australia) | 226,000 |
| Korea (Japan) | 221,000 |
| Gold Coast (UK) | 213,000 |
| British Guiana (UK) | 212,000 |
| Senegal (France) | 197,000 |
| Emirate of Bukhara | 194,000 |
| Cambodia (France) | 183,000 |
| Uruguay | 178,000 |
| British Somaliland (UK) | 173,000 |
| Tunisia (France) | 156,000 |
| Nepal | 147,000 |
| Dutch Guiana (Netherlands) | 146,000 |
| Romania | 136,000 |
| Nicaragua | 129,000 |
| Sarawak | 125,000 |
| Greece | 124,000 |
| Eritrea (Italy) | 122,000 |
| Nyasaland (UK) | 119,000 |
| Dahomey (France) | 117,000 |
| Honduras | 113,000 |
| Bulgaria | 111,000 |
| Cuba | 111,000 |
| Guatemala | 109,000 |
| Iceland (Denmark) | 103,000 |
| Khanate of Khiva | 101,000 |
| Liberia | 96,500 |
| Kingdom of Hejaz | 92,700 |
| Portugal | 92,300 |
| Serbia | 90,500 |
| 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 |
| Unfederated Malay States | 57,600 |
| Spanish Morocco | 53,300 |
| Costa Rica | 51,600 |
| Japanese occupation of German colonial possessions | 50,000 |
| 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 |
| Albania | 28,700 |
| New Hebrides / Nouvelles-Hébrides | 28,300 |
| British Solomon Islands (UK) | 27,800 |
| Haiti | 27,500 |
| Spanish Guinea (Spain) | 27,200 |
| New Caledonia (France) | 24,000 |
| British Honduras (UK) | 22,300 |
| Protectorate of Kuwait | 22,200 |
| French Somaliland (France) | 21,600 |
| El Salvador | 20,700 |
| Fiji (UK) | 18,500 |
| Hawaii (USA) | 17,300 |
| Swaziland (UK) | 17,100 |
| Montenegro | 15,900 |
| British Western Pacific Territories | 15,700 |
| Asir | 15,300 |
| Portuguese Timor (Portugal) | 15,300 |
| Australian occupation of German New Guinea | 14,100 |
| French Polynesia (France) | 13,000 |
| Bahamas (UK) | 12,800 |
| Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony | 11,800 |
| Jamaica (UK) | 11,200 |
| Qatar (UK) | 11,100 |
| Gambia (UK) | 10,900 |
| Brazilian Republic | 10,700 |
| Puerto Rico (USA) | 9,310 |
| Cyprus | 9,300 |
| Protectorate of Tonga | 8,310 |
| British Colonial Empire | 8,180 |
| Colony of Seychelles | 7,520 |
| British Guiana | 6,900 |
| Sultanate of Lahej | 5,980 |
| Zanzibar Protectorate | 5,780 |
| Brunei (UK) | 5,770 |
| British occupation of German Samoa | 5,240 |
| Dominion of New Zealand | 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 |
| Mauritius (UK) | 2,160 |
| Kwangchowan | 2,120 |
| Guadeloupe (France) | 1,660 |
| Cayman Islands | 1,520 |
| Isle of Man | 1,350 |
| Martinique (France) | 1,200 |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | 1,100 |
| Wallis and Futuna Colony | 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 |
| Australian occupation of Nauru | 216 |
| Maldives (UK) | 27.8 |
What changed since 1916
Now drawn
Asir, Qatar (UK), Wallis and Futuna Colony
No longer drawn
Protectorate of Bahrain, Danish West Indies
The same date elsewhere
Map of Europe · 1915–1917 Map of the Middle East · 1917 Map of Africa · 1917 Map of South Asia · 1913–1917 Map of East Asia · 1915–1917 Map of Southeast Asia · 1915–1918 Map of Central Asia · 1913–1917 Map of North America · 1899–1917 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1917–1923 Map of South America · 1904–1923 Map of Oceania · 1917–1918
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.