World map, 1937–1938
On 1 July of every year from 1937 to 1938, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 179 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.
| Name | Drawn area in view (km²) |
|---|---|
| Soviet Union | 21,500,000 |
| Canada | 9,530,000 |
| Brazil | 8,510,000 |
| United States | 7,940,000 |
| Australia | 7,710,000 |
| Republic of China | 7,500,000 |
| British Raj (British India) | 4,240,000 |
| Argentina | 2,780,000 |
| Anglo-Egyptian Sudan | 2,500,000 |
| Belgian Congo (Belgium) | 2,340,000 |
| Algeria (France) | 2,320,000 |
| Greenland | 2,220,000 |
| Mexico | 1,970,000 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1,960,000 |
| Dutch East Indies | 1,900,000 |
| Tibet | 1,810,000 |
| Imperial State of Iran | 1,620,000 |
| Libya (Italy) | 1,620,000 |
| Mongolia | 1,560,000 |
| 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 Africa | 1,220,000 |
| Peru | 1,210,000 |
| Bolivia | 1,200,000 |
| Colombia | 1,140,000 |
| Ethiopian Empire | 1,130,000 |
| Kingdom of Egypt | 1,000,000 |
| 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 |
| Turkey | 781,000 |
| Northern Rhodesia (UK) | 755,000 |
| Chile | 749,000 |
| Burma (UK) | 670,000 |
| Afghanistan | 642,000 |
| Ubangi-Shari (France) | 621,000 |
| Madagascar (France) | 598,000 |
| Kenya (UK) | 585,000 |
| Bechuanaland (UK) | 580,000 |
| French Third Republic | 557,000 |
| Siam | 515,000 |
| Spanish Republic | 507,000 |
| Cote d'Ivoire (France) | 470,000 |
| Nazi Germany | 470,000 |
| Italian Somaliland | 467,000 |
| Sweden | 444,000 |
| Iraq | 436,000 |
| French Cameroons (France) | 425,000 |
| Newfoundland | 400,000 |
| Southern Rhodesia (UK) | 391,000 |
| Finland | 387,000 |
| Poland | 387,000 |
| Empire of Japan | 384,000 |
| Morocco (France) | 351,000 |
| French Congo (France) | 346,000 |
| Ecuador | 344,000 |
| Vietnam (France) | 327,000 |
| Norway | 322,000 |
| Kingdom of Italy | 311,000 |
| Muscat and Oman | 310,000 |
| Philippines (USA) | 299,000 |
| Romania | 295,000 |
| Paraguay | 294,000 |
| New Zealand | 271,000 |
| Spanish West Africa | 270,000 |
| Gabon (France) | 263,000 |
| Kingdom of Yugoslavia | 247,000 |
| French Guinea (France) | 246,000 |
| United Kingdom | 246,000 |
| Uganda (UK) | 243,000 |
| East Aden Protectorate | 242,000 |
| 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 |
| Liberia | 96,500 |
| Kingdom of Hungary | 92,700 |
| Portugal | 92,300 |
| Transjordan (UK) | 89,300 |
| British Cameroons | 87,900 |
| Austria | 83,700 |
| Panama | 75,500 |
| Kingdom of Norway | 74,200 |
| North Borneo (UK) | 73,300 |
| Sierra Leone (UK) | 72,900 |
| Federated Malay States | 71,900 |
| Inini | 71,000 |
| Trucial Oman (UK) | 70,900 |
| Ireland | 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 |
| Estonia | 49,300 |
| Dominican Republic | 48,700 |
| Aden (UK) | 46,700 |
| Denmark | 44,600 |
| Switzerland | 41,400 |
| Bhutan | 39,900 |
| Taiwan (Japan) | 36,200 |
| British Empire | 36,200 |
| Netherlands | 35,000 |
| Karafuto (Japan) | 33,800 |
| Portuguese Guinea (Portugal) | 33,600 |
| Basutoland (UK) | 30,600 |
| Belgium | 30,500 |
| Albania | 28,700 |
| 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 Colonial Empire | 22,900 |
| British Honduras (UK) | 22,300 |
| French Somaliland (France) | 21,600 |
| El Salvador | 20,700 |
| Fiji (UK) | 18,500 |
| New Hebrides | 17,400 |
| 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 Brazil | 10,700 |
| Lebanon (France) | 10,300 |
| Puerto Rico (USA) | 9,310 |
| Cyprus | 9,300 |
| Brunei (UK) | 5,770 |
| Trinidad and Tobago (UK) | 5,240 |
| Cape Verde | 4,040 |
| Straits Settlements | 3,700 |
| Sultanate of Zanzibar | 2,690 |
| Reunion (France) | 2,670 |
| Luxembourg | 2,570 |
| Mauritius (UK) | 2,160 |
| Danzig | 2,030 |
| Guadeloupe (France) | 1,700 |
| Martinique (France) | 1,200 |
| Barbados (UK) | 457 |
| Malta | 292 |
| Maldives (UK) | 27.8 |
Open the map on 1 July of
What changed since 1933–1936
Now drawn
Burma (UK), East Aden Protectorate, Ireland, Aden (UK)
No longer drawn
Irish Free State, North Yemen, British Africa
The same date elsewhere
Map of Europe · 1937–1938 Map of the Middle East · 1937–1940 Map of Africa · 1937–1938 Map of South Asia · 1937–1938 Map of East Asia · 1937–1938 Map of Southeast Asia · 1937–1938 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.