World map, 1933–1936

On 1 July of every year from 1933 to 1936, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 178 names within the world. The borders come from CShapes 2.0 (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.

NameDrawn area in view (km²)
Soviet Union21,500,000
Canada9,530,000
Brazil8,510,000
United States7,940,000
Australia7,710,000
Republic of China7,500,000
British Raj (British India)4,910,000
Argentina2,780,000
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan2,590,000
Belgian Congo (Belgium)2,340,000
Algeria (France)2,320,000
Mexico1,970,000
Saudi Arabia1,960,000
Dutch East Indies1,900,000
Tibet1,810,000
Imperial State of Iran1,620,000
Mongolia1,560,000
Libya (Italy)1,530,000
French Sudan (France)1,520,000
Alaska (USA)1,500,000
Chad (France)1,280,000
Niger (France)1,260,000
Angola (Portugal)1,250,000
Union of South Africa1,220,000
Peru1,210,000
Bolivia1,200,000
Colombia1,140,000
Ethiopian Empire1,130,000
Kingdom of Egypt1,000,000
Tanganyika (UK)943,000
Venezuela929,000
Nigeria (UK)867,000
Mauritania (France)829,000
South West Africa (South Africa)827,000
Mozambique (Portugal)790,000
Turkey781,000
Northern Rhodesia (UK)755,000
Chile749,000
Afghanistan642,000
Ubangi-Shari (France)621,000
Madagascar (France)598,000
Kenya (UK)585,000
Bechuanaland (UK)580,000
French Third Republic557,000
Siam515,000
Spanish Republic507,000
Cote d'Ivoire (France)470,000
Nazi Germany470,000
Italian Somaliland467,000
Sweden444,000
Iraq436,000
French Cameroons (France)425,000
Newfoundland400,000
Southern Rhodesia (UK)391,000
Finland387,000
Poland387,000
Empire of Japan384,000
Morocco (France)351,000
French Congo (France)346,000
Ecuador344,000
Vietnam (France)327,000
Norway322,000
British Empire321,000
Kingdom of Italy311,000
Muscat and Oman310,000
Philippines (USA)299,000
Romania295,000
Paraguay294,000
New Zealand271,000
Spanish West Africa270,000
Gabon (France)263,000
Kingdom of Yugoslavia247,000
French Guinea (France)246,000
United Kingdom246,000
Uganda (UK)243,000
New Guinea (Australia)240,000
Laos (France)231,000
Papua (Australia)226,000
Korea (Japan)221,000
Greenland216,000
Gold Coast (UK)213,000
British Guiana (UK)212,000
Senegal (France)197,000
Syria (France)188,000
Cambodia (France)183,000
Uruguay178,000
British Somaliland (UK)173,000
Tunisia (France)156,000
Nepal147,000
Dutch Guiana (Netherlands)146,000
Czechoslovakia140,000
Yemen137,000
Greece132,000
Nicaragua129,000
Sarawak125,000
Eritrea (Italy)122,000
Nyasaland (UK)119,000
Dahomey (France)117,000
Honduras113,000
Cuba111,000
Guatemala109,000
Bulgaria103,000
Iceland (Denmark)103,000
Liberia96,500
Kingdom of Hungary92,700
Portugal92,300
Transjordan (UK)89,300
British Cameroons87,900
Austria83,700
Panama75,500
Kingdom of Norway74,200
North Borneo (UK)73,300
Sierra Leone (UK)72,900
Federated Malay States71,900
Inini71,000
Trucial Oman (UK)70,900
Irish Free State70,000
Ceylon (UK)66,800
Latvia65,800
Unfederated Malay States57,600
French Togoland (France)57,300
Lithuania55,600
Spanish Morocco53,300
Ruanda-Urundi (Belgium)52,600
Costa Rica51,600
Estonia49,300
Dominican Republic48,700
Denmark44,900
Switzerland41,400
Bhutan39,900
Taiwan (Japan)36,200
Netherlands35,000
Karafuto (Japan)33,800
Portuguese Guinea (Portugal)33,600
Basutoland (UK)30,600
Belgium30,500
Albania28,700
British Solomon Islands (UK)27,800
Haiti27,500
Spanish Guinea (Spain)27,200
Mandatory Palestine27,000
British Togoland26,700
New Caledonia (France)24,000
British Colonial Empire22,900
British Honduras (UK)22,300
French Somaliland (France)21,600
El Salvador20,700
Fiji (UK)18,500
New Hebrides17,400
Hawaii (USA)17,300
Swaziland (UK)17,100
Portuguese Timor (Portugal)15,300
French Guiana (France)13,200
French Polynesia (France)13,000
Bahamas (UK)12,800
Jamaica (UK)11,200
Qatar (UK)11,200
Gambia (UK)10,900
Unitary State of Brazil10,700
Lebanon (France)10,300
Puerto Rico (USA)9,310
Cyprus9,300
Brunei (UK)5,770
North Yemen5,500
British Africa5,480
Trinidad and Tobago (UK)5,240
Cape Verde4,040
Straits Settlements3,700
Sultanate of Zanzibar2,690
Reunion (France)2,670
Luxembourg2,570
Mauritius (UK)2,160
Danzig2,030
Guadeloupe (France)1,700
Martinique (France)1,200
Barbados (UK)457
Malta292
Maldives (UK)27.8

Open the map on 1 July of

1933 1934 1935 1936

What changed since 1932

Now drawn

Saudi Arabia, Nazi Germany, Iraq

No longer drawn

Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd, Weimar Republic, Iraq (UK), Upper Volta (France)

The same date elsewhere

Map of Europe · 1933–1936 Map of the Middle East · 1933–1936 Map of Africa · 1933–1936 Map of South Asia · 1926–1936 Map of East Asia · 1924–1936 Map of Southeast Asia · 1924–1936 Map of Central Asia · 1933–1947 Map of North America · 1924–1940 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1924–1962 Map of South America · 1932–1945 Map of Oceania · 1924–1948

Source and method

Borders and names: CShapes 2.0 (Schvitz et al. 2022, icr.ethz.ch/data/cshapes) · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 + 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.

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