World map in 1948
On 1 July 1948, IntMap’s historical map draws 181 names within the world. The borders for this date 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 | 22,000,000 |
| Canada | 9,530,000 |
| Brazil | 8,510,000 |
| United States | 7,940,000 |
| Australia | 7,710,000 |
| Republic of China | 7,600,000 |
| India | 3,060,000 |
| Argentina | 2,780,000 |
| Anglo-Egyptian Sudan | 2,500,000 |
| Belgian Congo (Belgium) | 2,340,000 |
| Algeria (France) | 2,320,000 |
| Denmark | 2,260,000 |
| 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 (UK) | 1,620,000 |
| Mongolia | 1,560,000 |
| Alaska (USA) | 1,500,000 |
| Peru | 1,300,000 |
| Chad (France) | 1,280,000 |
| French Sudan (France) | 1,260,000 |
| Angola (Portugal) | 1,250,000 |
| Union of South Africa | 1,220,000 |
| Niger (France) | 1,190,000 |
| Colombia | 1,140,000 |
| Ethiopian Empire | 1,130,000 |
| Bolivia | 1,090,000 |
| Mauritania (France) | 1,040,000 |
| Kingdom of Egypt | 1,000,000 |
| Tanganyika (UK) | 943,000 |
| Pakistan (incl. East Pakistan) | 935,000 |
| Venezuela | 929,000 |
| Nigeria (UK) | 867,000 |
| South West Africa (South Africa) | 827,000 |
| Mozambique (Portugal) | 790,000 |
| Turkey | 781,000 |
| Northern Rhodesia (UK) | 755,000 |
| Chile | 749,000 |
| Burma | 670,000 |
| Afghanistan | 642,000 |
| Ubangi-Shari (France) | 621,000 |
| Madagascar (France) | 596,000 |
| Kenya (UK) | 585,000 |
| Bechuanaland (UK) | 580,000 |
| France | 548,000 |
| Thailand | 515,000 |
| Francoist Spain | 507,000 |
| Italian Somaliland | 467,000 |
| Sweden | 444,000 |
| Iraq | 436,000 |
| French Cameroons (France) | 425,000 |
| Newfoundland | 400,000 |
| Paraguay | 400,000 |
| Southern Rhodesia (UK) | 391,000 |
| Japan | 372,000 |
| Morocco (France) | 351,000 |
| French Congo (France) | 346,000 |
| Finland | 334,000 |
| Vietnam (France) | 327,000 |
| Cote d'Ivoire (France) | 323,000 |
| Norway | 322,000 |
| Poland | 311,000 |
| Muscat and Oman | 310,000 |
| Italy | 301,000 |
| Philippines | 299,000 |
| Upper Volta (France) | 273,000 |
| New Zealand | 271,000 |
| Spanish West Africa | 270,000 |
| Gabon (France) | 263,000 |
| Ecuador | 257,000 |
| Yugoslavia (SFRY) | 255,000 |
| Germany (Western Allies) | 248,000 |
| French Guinea (France) | 246,000 |
| United Kingdom | 246,000 |
| Uganda (UK) | 243,000 |
| East Aden Protectorate | 242,000 |
| New Guinea (Australia) | 240,000 |
| Romania | 237,000 |
| Laos (France) | 231,000 |
| Papua (Australia) | 226,000 |
| Gold Coast (UK) | 213,000 |
| British Guiana (UK) | 212,000 |
| Senegal (France) | 197,000 |
| Syria | 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 |
| Yemen | 137,000 |
| Malaya (UK) | 133,000 |
| Greece | 132,000 |
| Nicaragua | 129,000 |
| Czechoslovakia | 127,000 |
| Sarawak (UK) | 125,000 |
| Korea (USSR) | 123,000 |
| Eritrea (UK) | 122,000 |
| Nyasaland (UK) | 119,000 |
| Dahomey (France) | 117,000 |
| Honduras | 113,000 |
| Bulgaria | 111,000 |
| Cuba | 111,000 |
| Guatemala | 109,000 |
| Germany (USSR) | 109,000 |
| Jammu and Kashmir | 106,000 |
| Iceland | 103,000 |
| Korea (USA) | 98,300 |
| Liberia | 96,500 |
| Hungary | 92,700 |
| Portugal | 92,300 |
| Transjordan | 89,300 |
| British Cameroons | 87,900 |
| French Guiana (France) | 84,200 |
| Austria | 83,700 |
| Kashmir | 81,700 |
| Panama | 75,500 |
| Kingdom of Norway | 74,200 |
| North Borneo (UK) | 73,300 |
| Sierra Leone (UK) | 72,900 |
| Trucial Oman (UK) | 70,900 |
| Ireland | 70,000 |
| Ceylon | 66,800 |
| French Togoland (France) | 57,300 |
| Spanish Morocco | 53,300 |
| Ruanda-Urundi (Belgium) | 52,600 |
| Costa Rica | 51,600 |
| Dominican Republic | 48,700 |
| Aden (UK) | 46,700 |
| Switzerland | 41,400 |
| Bhutan | 39,900 |
| British Empire | 39,000 |
| Netherlands | 35,000 |
| 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 |
| British Togoland | 26,700 |
| British Colonial Empire | 25,700 |
| New Caledonia (France) | 24,000 |
| British Honduras (UK) | 22,300 |
| French Somaliland (France) | 21,600 |
| Israel | 20,800 |
| 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 Polynesia (France) | 13,000 |
| Bahamas (UK) | 12,800 |
| French Fourth Republic | 12,600 |
| Jamaica (UK) | 11,200 |
| Qatar (UK) | 11,200 |
| Gambia (UK) | 10,900 |
| Brazilian Republic | 10,700 |
| Lebanon | 10,300 |
| Puerto Rico (USA) | 9,310 |
| Cyprus | 9,300 |
| West Bank (Jordan) | 5,880 |
| Brunei (UK) | 5,770 |
| Trinidad and Tobago (UK) | 5,240 |
| Cape Verde | 4,040 |
| Ryukyu Islands (USA) | 3,170 |
| Sultanate of Zanzibar | 2,690 |
| Reunion (France) | 2,660 |
| Luxembourg | 2,570 |
| Mauritius (UK) | 2,160 |
| Comoros (France) | 1,770 |
| Guadeloupe (France) | 1,700 |
| Martinique (France) | 1,200 |
| Singapore (UK) | 565 |
| Barbados (UK) | 457 |
| Gaza (Egypt) | 382 |
| Malta | 292 |
| Maldives (UK) | 27.8 |
What changed since 1947
Now drawn
India, Pakistan (incl. East Pakistan), Burma, Jammu and Kashmir, Kashmir, Ceylon, Israel, West Bank (Jordan), Gaza (Egypt)
No longer drawn
British Raj (British India), Burma (UK), Ceylon (UK), Mandatory Palestine
The same date elsewhere
Map of Europe · 1946–1949 Map of the Middle East · 1948 Map of Africa · 1948 Map of South Asia · 1948 Map of East Asia · 1948 Map of Southeast Asia · 1948 Map of Central Asia · 1948 Map of North America · 1941–1948 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1924–1962 Map of South America · 1946–1962 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.