World map in 1919
On 1 July 1919, IntMap’s historical map draws 206 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) |
|---|---|
| Soviet Russia (RSFSR) | 21,300,000 |
| 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 |
| Mexico | 1,970,000 |
| Dutch East Indies | 1,900,000 |
| Tibet | 1,810,000 |
| Ottoman Empire | 1,800,000 |
| Persia | 1,620,000 |
| Egypt (UK) | 1,520,000 |
| Alaska (USA) | 1,500,000 |
| French Sudan (France) | 1,470,000 |
| 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 |
| Tanganyika (UK) | 996,000 |
| Venezuela | 929,000 |
| Libya (Italy) | 884,000 |
| Nigeria (UK) | 867,000 |
| Mauritania (France) | 829,000 |
| South West Africa (South Africa) | 827,000 |
| Mozambique (Portugal) | 790,000 |
| Northern Rhodesia (UK) | 755,000 |
| Chile | 749,000 |
| Afghanistan | 642,000 |
| British East Africa (UK) | 639,000 |
| Ubangi-Shari (France) | 621,000 |
| Madagascar (France) | 598,000 |
| Bechuanaland (UK) | 580,000 |
| French Third Republic | 557,000 |
| Siam | 515,000 |
| Spain | 507,000 |
| Weimar Republic | 476,000 |
| Sweden | 444,000 |
| French Cameroons (France) | 425,000 |
| Finland | 424,000 |
| Emirate of Nejd | 421,000 |
| Newfoundland | 400,000 |
| Empire of Japan | 397,000 |
| Southern Rhodesia (UK) | 391,000 |
| Italian Somaliland | 373,000 |
| Morocco (France) | 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 |
| Kingdom of Italy | 288,000 |
| Uganda (UK) | 284,000 |
| Upper Volta (France) | 273,000 |
| New Zealand | 271,000 |
| Spanish West Africa | 270,000 |
| Gabon (France) | 263,000 |
| Hungary | 257,000 |
| Aden Protectorate | 248,000 |
| French Guinea (France) | 246,000 |
| Emirate of Jabal Shammar | 245,000 |
| Laos (France) | 231,000 |
| German New Guinea | 230,000 |
| Papua (Australia) | 226,000 |
| Korea (Japan) | 221,000 |
| Gold Coast (UK) | 213,000 |
| British Guiana (UK) | 212,000 |
| Austria | 212,000 |
| Senegal (France) | 197,000 |
| Emirate of Bukhara | 194,000 |
| Cambodia (France) | 183,000 |
| Uruguay | 178,000 |
| Poland | 177,000 |
| British Somaliland (UK) | 173,000 |
| Kingdom of Yugoslavia | 158,000 |
| Tunisia (France) | 156,000 |
| Nepal | 147,000 |
| Dutch Guiana (Netherlands) | 146,000 |
| Romania | 141,000 |
| Czechoslovakia | 140,000 |
| Yemen | 137,000 |
| Nicaragua | 129,000 |
| Sarawak | 125,000 |
| Greece | 124,000 |
| Eritrea (Italy) | 122,000 |
| Bulgaria | 119,000 |
| Nyasaland (UK) | 119,000 |
| Dahomey (France) | 117,000 |
| Kingdom of Hejaz | 115,000 |
| Honduras | 113,000 |
| Cuba | 111,000 |
| Guatemala | 109,000 |
| Iceland (Denmark) | 103,000 |
| Khanate of Khiva | 101,000 |
| Liberia | 96,500 |
| Portugal | 92,300 |
| British Cameroons | 87,900 |
| French Guiana (France) | 84,200 |
| Lithuania | 81,000 |
| Panama | 75,500 |
| North Borneo (UK) | 73,300 |
| Sierra Leone (UK) | 72,900 |
| British Empire | 72,600 |
| Federated Malay States | 71,900 |
| Trucial Oman (UK) | 70,900 |
| Ceylon (UK) | 66,800 |
| Latvia | 65,800 |
| French West Africa | 57,800 |
| Unfederated Malay States | 57,600 |
| Spanish Morocco | 53,300 |
| Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic | 52,300 |
| Costa Rica | 51,600 |
| Estonia | 49,300 |
| Dominican Republic | 48,700 |
| North Yemen | 45,000 |
| 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 |
| German Togoland | 26,700 |
| 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 |
| British Western Pacific Territories | 15,700 |
| Asir | 15,300 |
| Portuguese Timor (Portugal) | 15,300 |
| Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony | 15,100 |
| Australian occupation of German New Guinea | 14,100 |
| French Polynesia (France) | 13,000 |
| Bahamas (UK) | 12,800 |
| 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 |
| British Africa | 7,900 |
| Colony of Seychelles | 7,520 |
| British Guiana | 6,900 |
| Sultanate of Lahej | 5,970 |
| 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 |
| Danzig | 2,030 |
| 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 1918
Now drawn
Tanganyika (UK), Weimar Republic, French Cameroons (France), Upper Volta (France), Hungary, Austria, Poland, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Yemen, British Cameroons, Latvia, French West Africa, Estonia, North Yemen, Danzig
No longer drawn
German East Africa, Kamerun, Austria-Hungary, German Empire, Serbia, Japanese occupation of German colonial possessions, Montenegro
The same date elsewhere
Map of Europe · 1919 Map of the Middle East · 1919 Map of Africa · 1919 Map of South Asia · 1918–1920 Map of East Asia · 1919–1920 Map of Southeast Asia · 1919–1923 Map of Central Asia · 1918–1919 Map of North America · 1918–1922 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1917–1923 Map of South America · 1904–1923 Map of Oceania · 1919
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.