World map in 1923
On 1 July 1923, IntMap’s historical map draws 211 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 Union | 21,500,000 |
| Canada | 9,530,000 |
| Brazil | 8,520,000 |
| United States | 7,940,000 |
| Australia | 7,710,000 |
| Republic of China | 7,500,000 |
| 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 |
| Mongolia | 1,560,000 |
| Kingdom of Egypt | 1,520,000 |
| Alaska (USA) | 1,500,000 |
| French Sudan (France) | 1,470,000 |
| Chad (France) | 1,280,000 |
| Angola (Portugal) | 1,250,000 |
| Union of South Africa | 1,220,000 |
| Peru | 1,210,000 |
| Bolivia | 1,200,000 |
| Niger (France) | 1,190,000 |
| Colombia | 1,140,000 |
| Ethiopian Empire | 1,130,000 |
| Libya (Italy) | 1,010,000 |
| Tanganyika (UK) | 943,000 |
| Venezuela | 929,000 |
| Emirate of Nejd | 899,000 |
| Nigeria (UK) | 867,000 |
| Mauritania (France) | 829,000 |
| South West Africa (South Africa) | 827,000 |
| Mozambique (Portugal) | 790,000 |
| Ottoman Empire | 781,000 |
| Northern Rhodesia (UK) | 755,000 |
| Chile | 749,000 |
| Afghanistan | 642,000 |
| Kenya (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 | 470,000 |
| Sweden | 444,000 |
| Iraq (UK) | 436,000 |
| French Cameroons (France) | 425,000 |
| Finland | 424,000 |
| Newfoundland | 400,000 |
| Empire of Japan | 397,000 |
| Southern Rhodesia (UK) | 391,000 |
| Poland | 387,000 |
| Italian Somaliland | 373,000 |
| Morocco (France) | 351,000 |
| French Congo (France) | 346,000 |
| Ecuador | 344,000 |
| Vietnam (France) | 327,000 |
| Norway | 323,000 |
| Cote d'Ivoire (France) | 323,000 |
| Kingdom of Italy | 311,000 |
| Muscat and Oman | 310,000 |
| Philippines (USA) | 299,000 |
| Romania | 295,000 |
| Paraguay | 294,000 |
| Uganda (UK) | 284,000 |
| Kingdom of Hejaz | 274,000 |
| Upper Volta (France) | 273,000 |
| New Zealand | 271,000 |
| Spanish West Africa | 270,000 |
| Gabon (France) | 263,000 |
| Aden Protectorate | 248,000 |
| Kingdom of Yugoslavia | 247,000 |
| French Guinea (France) | 246,000 |
| United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | 246,000 |
| 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 |
| Syria (France) | 188,000 |
| Cambodia (France) | 183,000 |
| Uruguay | 178,000 |
| British Somaliland (UK) | 173,000 |
| Tunisia (France) | 156,000 |
| Nepal | 147,000 |
| Dutch Guiana (Netherlands) | 146,000 |
| 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 |
| Asir | 96,600 |
| Liberia | 96,500 |
| Kingdom of Hungary | 92,700 |
| Portugal | 92,300 |
| British Cameroons | 87,900 |
| French Guiana (France) | 84,200 |
| Austria | 83,700 |
| Panama | 75,500 |
| North Borneo (UK) | 73,300 |
| Sierra Leone (UK) | 72,900 |
| Federated Malay States | 71,900 |
| Trucial Oman (UK) | 70,900 |
| British Empire | 70,700 |
| Irish Free State | 70,000 |
| Ceylon (UK) | 66,800 |
| Latvia | 65,800 |
| Unfederated Malay States | 57,600 |
| French Togoland (France) | 57,300 |
| Lithuania | 55,600 |
| Spanish Morocco | 53,300 |
| Ruanda-Urundi (Belgium) | 52,600 |
| Costa Rica | 51,600 |
| North Yemen | 49,500 |
| Estonia | 49,300 |
| Emirate of Transjordan | 48,800 |
| Dominican Republic | 48,700 |
| Transjordan (UK) | 45,200 |
| 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 |
| Mandatory Palestine | 27,000 |
| British 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) | 11,200 |
| 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 |
| Sultanate of Lahej | 5,970 |
| Tanganyika Territory | 5,780 |
| Zanzibar Protectorate | 5,780 |
| Brunei (UK) | 5,770 |
| Dominion of New Zealand | 5,240 |
| Territory of Western Samoa | 5,240 |
| Trinidad and Tobago (UK) | 5,240 |
| British Africa | 5,230 |
| 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 |
| Saint Helena Crown Colony | 946 |
| Guernsey | 909 |
| French Settlements in India | 727 |
| Pitcairn Islands | 691 |
| Colony of Bermuda | 557 |
| Barbados (UK) | 457 |
| Malta | 292 |
| Nauru | 216 |
| Maldives (UK) | 27.8 |
What changed since 1922
Now drawn
Soviet Union, Irish Free State, French Togoland (France), British Togoland
No longer drawn
Soviet Russia (RSFSR), French West Africa, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, German Togoland, Memel Territory (Allies)
The same date elsewhere
Map of Europe · 1923 Map of the Middle East · 1923 Map of Africa · 1923 Map of South Asia · 1923 Map of East Asia · 1923 Map of Southeast Asia · 1919–1923 Map of Central Asia · 1923 Map of North America · 1923 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1917–1923 Map of South America · 1904–1923 Map of Oceania · 1922–1923
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.