World map in 1962
On 1 July 1962, IntMap’s historical map draws 171 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.
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 | 9,930,000 |
| United States | 9,460,000 |
| China | 9,370,000 |
| Brazil | 8,510,000 |
| Australia | 7,710,000 |
| India | 3,160,000 |
| Argentina | 2,780,000 |
| Sudan (incl. South Sudan) | 2,500,000 |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | 2,340,000 |
| Algeria (France) | 2,320,000 |
| Denmark | 2,260,000 |
| Mexico | 1,970,000 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1,960,000 |
| Imperial State of Iran | 1,620,000 |
| Libya | 1,620,000 |
| Mongolia | 1,560,000 |
| Indonesia | 1,480,000 |
| Peru | 1,300,000 |
| Chad | 1,280,000 |
| Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland | 1,260,000 |
| Mali | 1,260,000 |
| Ethiopia (incl. Eritrea) | 1,250,000 |
| Angola (Portugal) | 1,250,000 |
| South Africa | 1,220,000 |
| Niger | 1,190,000 |
| Colombia | 1,140,000 |
| Bolivia | 1,090,000 |
| Mauritania | 1,040,000 |
| Pakistan (incl. East Pakistan) | 1,020,000 |
| Egypt | 1,000,000 |
| Tanganyika | 943,000 |
| Venezuela | 929,000 |
| Nigeria | 913,000 |
| South West Africa (South Africa) | 827,000 |
| Mozambique (Portugal) | 790,000 |
| Turkey | 781,000 |
| Chile | 749,000 |
| Burma | 670,000 |
| Afghanistan | 642,000 |
| Somalia | 640,000 |
| Central African Republic | 621,000 |
| Madagascar | 596,000 |
| Kenya (UK) | 585,000 |
| Bechuanaland (UK) | 580,000 |
| France | 548,000 |
| Thailand | 515,000 |
| Francoist Spain | 507,000 |
| Cameroon | 467,000 |
| Papua and New Guinea (Australia) | 466,000 |
| Sweden | 444,000 |
| Iraq | 436,000 |
| Dutch New Guinea (Netherlands) | 414,000 |
| Morocco | 404,000 |
| Paraguay | 400,000 |
| Japan | 373,000 |
| Congo | 346,000 |
| Finland | 334,000 |
| Cote D'Ivoire | 323,000 |
| Norway | 322,000 |
| Poland | 311,000 |
| Muscat and Oman | 310,000 |
| Italy | 301,000 |
| Philippines | 299,000 |
| Federation of South Arabia | 288,000 |
| Upper Volta | 273,000 |
| New Zealand | 271,000 |
| Spanish Sahara | 270,000 |
| Gabon | 263,000 |
| Ecuador | 257,000 |
| Yugoslavia (SFRY) | 255,000 |
| West Germany | 248,000 |
| Guinea | 246,000 |
| United Kingdom | 246,000 |
| Uganda (UK) | 243,000 |
| Ghana | 240,000 |
| Romania | 237,000 |
| Laos | 231,000 |
| British Guiana (UK) | 212,000 |
| Senegal | 197,000 |
| Syria | 188,000 |
| Cambodia | 183,000 |
| Uruguay | 178,000 |
| South Vietnam | 170,000 |
| North Vietnam | 156,000 |
| Tunisia | 156,000 |
| Nepal | 147,000 |
| Dutch Guiana (Netherlands) | 146,000 |
| Yemen | 137,000 |
| Malaya | 133,000 |
| Greece | 132,000 |
| Nicaragua | 129,000 |
| Czechoslovakia | 127,000 |
| Sarawak (UK) | 125,000 |
| North Korea | 123,000 |
| Dahomey | 117,000 |
| Honduras | 113,000 |
| Bulgaria | 111,000 |
| Cuba | 111,000 |
| Guatemala | 109,000 |
| East Germany | 108,000 |
| Iceland | 103,000 |
| South Korea | 98,300 |
| Liberia | 96,500 |
| Hungary | 92,700 |
| Portugal | 92,300 |
| Jordan | 89,300 |
| French Guiana (France) | 84,200 |
| Austria | 83,700 |
| Panama | 75,500 |
| Kingdom of Norway | 74,200 |
| North Borneo (UK) | 73,300 |
| Sierra Leone | 72,900 |
| Trucial Oman (UK) | 70,900 |
| Ireland | 70,000 |
| Ceylon | 66,800 |
| Togo | 57,300 |
| Costa Rica | 51,600 |
| Dominican Republic | 48,700 |
| Switzerland | 41,400 |
| Bhutan | 39,900 |
| Taiwan | 36,200 |
| 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 |
| Burundi | 27,300 |
| Spanish Guinea (Spain) | 27,200 |
| British Colonial Empire | 25,700 |
| Rwanda | 25,300 |
| British Empire | 25,000 |
| 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 |
| Swaziland (UK) | 17,100 |
| Kuwait | 17,000 |
| Portuguese Timor (Portugal) | 15,300 |
| French Fifth Republic | 13,100 |
| 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 | 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 |
| Sultanate of Zanzibar | 2,690 |
| Reunion (France) | 2,660 |
| Luxembourg | 2,570 |
| Mauritius (UK) | 2,160 |
| Ryukyu Islands (USA) | 2,060 |
| 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 1961
Now drawn
Tanganyika, Federation of South Arabia, Burundi, Rwanda
No longer drawn
Tanganyika (UK), East Aden Protectorate, British Cameroons, Ruanda-Urundi (Belgium), Aden (UK)
The same date elsewhere
Map of Europe · 1956–1962 Map of the Middle East · 1962–1966 Map of Africa · 1962 Map of South Asia · 1951–1964 Map of East Asia · 1954–1971 Map of Southeast Asia · 1958–1962 Map of Central Asia · 1951–1971 Map of North America · 1959–1973 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1924–1962 Map of South America · 1946–1962 Map of Oceania · 1960–1962
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.