World map in 1973
On 1 July 1973, 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 |
| Zaire | 2,340,000 |
| Algeria | 2,320,000 |
| Denmark | 2,260,000 |
| Mexico | 1,970,000 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1,960,000 |
| Indonesia | 1,900,000 |
| Imperial State of Iran | 1,620,000 |
| Libya | 1,620,000 |
| Mongolia | 1,560,000 |
| Peru | 1,300,000 |
| Chad | 1,280,000 |
| 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 |
| Tanzania | 946,000 |
| Egypt | 940,000 |
| Venezuela | 929,000 |
| Nigeria | 913,000 |
| Pakistan | 878,000 |
| South West Africa (South Africa) | 827,000 |
| Mozambique (Portugal) | 790,000 |
| Turkey | 781,000 |
| Zambia | 755,000 |
| Chile | 749,000 |
| Burma | 670,000 |
| Afghanistan | 642,000 |
| Somalia | 640,000 |
| Central African Republic | 621,000 |
| Madagascar | 596,000 |
| Kenya | 585,000 |
| Botswana | 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 |
| Morocco | 404,000 |
| Paraguay | 400,000 |
| Rhodesia | 391,000 |
| Japan | 375,000 |
| Congo | 346,000 |
| Finland | 334,000 |
| Malaysia | 331,000 |
| Cote D'Ivoire | 323,000 |
| Norway | 322,000 |
| Poland | 311,000 |
| Oman | 310,000 |
| Italy | 301,000 |
| Philippines | 299,000 |
| South Yemen | 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 | 243,000 |
| Ghana | 240,000 |
| Romania | 237,000 |
| Laos | 231,000 |
| Guyana | 212,000 |
| Senegal | 197,000 |
| Syria | 187,000 |
| 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 |
| Bangladesh | 139,000 |
| North Yemen | 137,000 |
| Greece | 132,000 |
| Nicaragua | 129,000 |
| Czechoslovakia | 127,000 |
| North Korea | 123,000 |
| Malawi | 119,000 |
| 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 |
| Israel | 88,900 |
| French Guiana (France) | 84,200 |
| Austria | 83,700 |
| Panama | 75,500 |
| Kingdom of Norway | 74,200 |
| Sierra Leone | 72,900 |
| United Arab Emirates | 70,900 |
| Ireland | 70,000 |
| Sri Lanka | 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 |
| Lesotho | 30,600 |
| Belgium | 30,500 |
| Albania | 28,700 |
| British Solomon Islands (UK) | 27,800 |
| Haiti | 27,500 |
| Burundi | 27,300 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 27,200 |
| Rwanda | 25,300 |
| New Caledonia (France) | 24,000 |
| British Colonial Empire | 23,200 |
| British Empire | 22,500 |
| British Honduras (UK) | 22,300 |
| French Somaliland (France) | 21,600 |
| El Salvador | 20,700 |
| Fiji | 18,500 |
| New Hebrides | 17,400 |
| Swaziland | 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 | 11,200 |
| Qatar | 11,200 |
| Gambia | 10,900 |
| Federated Republic of Brazil | 10,700 |
| Lebanon | 10,300 |
| Puerto Rico (USA) | 9,310 |
| Cyprus | 9,300 |
| Brunei (UK) | 5,770 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 5,240 |
| Mauritius | 4,650 |
| Cape Verde | 4,040 |
| Reunion (France) | 2,660 |
| Luxembourg | 2,570 |
| Comoros (France) | 1,770 |
| Guadeloupe (France) | 1,700 |
| Martinique (France) | 1,200 |
| Bahrain | 690 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | 666 |
| Saint Vincent | 641 |
| Singapore | 565 |
| Saint Kitts | 520 |
| Barbados | 457 |
| Malta | 292 |
| Maldives | 27.8 |
What changed since 1972
Now drawn
none
No longer drawn
British East Africa
The same date elsewhere
Map of Europe · 1963–1975 Map of the Middle East · 1972–1976 Map of Africa · 1972–1974 Map of South Asia · 1972–1976 Map of East Asia · 1972–1976 Map of Southeast Asia · 1972–1974 Map of Central Asia · 1972–1978 Map of North America · 1959–1973 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1969–1973 Map of South America · 1967–1975 Map of Oceania · 1971–1975
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.