World map in 1920
On 1 July 1920, IntMap’s historical map draws 212 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) | 21,400,000 |
| 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 |
| Denmark | 2,360,000 |
| Belgian Congo (Belgium) | 2,340,000 |
| Algeria (France) | 2,320,000 |
| Mexico | 1,970,000 |
| Dutch East Indies | 1,900,000 |
| Tibet | 1,810,000 |
| 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 |
| Ottoman Empire | 1,220,000 |
| Bolivia | 1,200,000 |
| Niger (France) | 1,190,000 |
| Ethiopian Empire | 1,130,000 |
| Colombia | 1,100,000 |
| Libya (Italy) | 1,010,000 |
| Tanganyika (UK) | 943,000 |
| Venezuela | 929,000 |
| 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 | 564,000 |
| Siam | 515,000 |
| Spain | 507,000 |
| Weimar Republic | 470,000 |
| Emirate of Nejd | 457,000 |
| Sweden | 444,000 |
| French Cameroons (France) | 425,000 |
| Finland | 424,000 |
| Empire of Japan | 414,000 |
| Newfoundland | 400,000 |
| 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 |
| Kingdom of Italy | 303,000 |
| Philippines (USA) | 299,000 |
| Paraguay | 294,000 |
| Uganda (UK) | 284,000 |
| Iraq (UK) | 275,000 |
| Upper Volta (France) | 273,000 |
| New Zealand | 271,000 |
| Spanish West Africa | 270,000 |
| Gabon (France) | 263,000 |
| Poland | 256,000 |
| Kingdom of Yugoslavia | 255,000 |
| Romania | 251,000 |
| Aden Protectorate | 248,000 |
| French Guinea (France) | 246,000 |
| Emirate of Jabal Shammar | 245,000 |
| New Guinea (Australia) | 240,000 |
| Laos (France) | 231,000 |
| 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 |
| Syria (France) | 182,000 |
| Uruguay | 178,000 |
| British Somaliland (UK) | 173,000 |
| Tunisia (France) | 156,000 |
| Nepal | 147,000 |
| Dutch Guiana (Netherlands) | 146,000 |
| Czechoslovakia | 140,000 |
| Yemen | 137,000 |
| Greece | 132,000 |
| Nicaragua | 129,000 |
| Sarawak | 125,000 |
| Eritrea (Italy) | 122,000 |
| Nyasaland (UK) | 119,000 |
| Dahomey (France) | 117,000 |
| Honduras | 113,000 |
| Cuba | 111,000 |
| Guatemala | 109,000 |
| Bulgaria | 103,000 |
| Iceland (Denmark) | 103,000 |
| Liberia | 96,500 |
| Kingdom of Hungary | 92,700 |
| Portugal | 92,300 |
| British Cameroons | 87,900 |
| French Guiana (France) | 84,200 |
| Austria | 83,700 |
| Lithuania | 81,000 |
| Kingdom of Hejaz | 79,700 |
| 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 |
| Latvia | 65,800 |
| British Empire | 64,700 |
| French West Africa | 57,800 |
| Unfederated Malay States | 57,600 |
| Spanish Morocco | 53,300 |
| Ruanda-Urundi (Belgium) | 52,600 |
| Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic | 52,300 |
| Costa Rica | 51,600 |
| Estonia | 49,300 |
| Dominican Republic | 48,700 |
| Transjordan (UK) | 45,200 |
| North Yemen | 43,100 |
| Switzerland | 41,400 |
| Bhutan | 39,900 |
| Asir | 38,000 |
| 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 |
| Mandatory Palestine | 27,000 |
| 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 |
| Portuguese Timor (Portugal) | 15,300 |
| Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony | 15,100 |
| 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 |
| Lebanon (France) | 10,300 |
| 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 |
| French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon | 6,510 |
| Sultanate of Lahej | 5,970 |
| Tanganyika Territory | 5,780 |
| 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 |
| Memel Territory (Allies) | 2,490 |
| 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 |
| Nauru | 216 |
| Maldives (UK) | 27.8 |
What changed since 1919
Now drawn
Iraq (UK), New Guinea (Australia), Syria (France), Kingdom of Hungary, Ruanda-Urundi (Belgium), Transjordan (UK), Mandatory Palestine, Lebanon (France), French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon, Tanganyika Territory, Memel Territory (Allies), Nauru
No longer drawn
Hungary, German New Guinea, Khanate of Khiva, Australian occupation of German New Guinea, British Africa, Australian occupation of Nauru
The same date elsewhere
Map of Europe · 1920 Map of the Middle East · 1920 Map of Africa · 1920 Map of South Asia · 1918–1920 Map of East Asia · 1919–1920 Map of Southeast Asia · 1919–1923 Map of Central Asia · 1920 Map of North America · 1918–1922 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1917–1923 Map of South America · 1904–1923 Map of Oceania · 1920–1921
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.