The world in 1880
On 1 July 1880, IntMap’s historical map draws 256 names across the world. The borders for this date come from OpenHistoricalMap (day by day), then Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (by year), then historical-basemaps — each drawn only where the records before it are silent. It also draws 11 outlines whose name the record does not give for this date.
Why this year has a page
The historical-basemaps atlas drew a world sheet for this year.
Names on the map
As the map labels them, largest first by the area of the outline drawn. Areas are of the drawn outline, rounded, and approximate. The record column says which record draws the outline; a Wikidata item is given where the record links one.
| Name | Record | Drawn area (km²) |
|---|---|---|
| Russian Empire | OpenHistoricalMap · Cliopatria Q34266 | 22,700,000 |
| Qing | OpenHistoricalMap | 12,200,000 |
| United States | OpenHistoricalMap | 9,820,000 |
| Dominion of Canada | OpenHistoricalMap | 9,510,000 |
| Empire of Brazil | OpenHistoricalMap | 8,230,000 |
| Ottoman Empire | OpenHistoricalMap · Cliopatria · historical-basemaps Q1529261 Q12560 | 4,730,000 |
| British Raj (British India) | OpenHistoricalMap · Cliopatria Q129286 | 4,410,000 |
| Argentina | OpenHistoricalMap · historical-basemaps | 2,750,000 |
| Colony of Western Australia | OpenHistoricalMap | 2,610,000 |
| Denmark | OpenHistoricalMap | 2,500,000 |
| Colony of South Australia | OpenHistoricalMap | 2,400,000 |
| Khedivate of Egypt | Cliopatria Q127861 | 2,340,000 |
| Dutch East Indies | OpenHistoricalMap | 2,280,000 |
| Mexico | OpenHistoricalMap | 2,030,000 |
| Colony of Queensland | OpenHistoricalMap | 1,800,000 |
| Bolivia | OpenHistoricalMap | 1,690,000 |
| Persia | OpenHistoricalMap | 1,640,000 |
| Colombia | OpenHistoricalMap | 1,310,000 |
| Upper River | OpenHistoricalMap | 1,260,000 |
| Sokoto Caliphate | OpenHistoricalMap · Cliopatria · historical-basemaps Q600524 | 1,200,000 |
| Arabia | historical-basemaps | 1,140,000 |
| United States of Venezuela | OpenHistoricalMap | 1,100,000 |
| Peru | OpenHistoricalMap | 1,090,000 |
| French Republic | OpenHistoricalMap | 1,010,000 |
| Sweden–Norway | OpenHistoricalMap · historical-basemaps | 949,000 |
| British Arctic Territories | OpenHistoricalMap | 884,000 |
| Colony of New South Wales | OpenHistoricalMap | 813,000 |
| Province of Mozambique | OpenHistoricalMap | 811,000 |
| Siam | OpenHistoricalMap | 775,000 |
| Ecuador | OpenHistoricalMap | 675,000 |
| Emirate of Afghanistan | OpenHistoricalMap | 642,000 |
| Protectorate of Afghanistan | OpenHistoricalMap | 642,000 |
| Austria-Hungary | OpenHistoricalMap | 639,000 |
| Kingdom of Imerina | OpenHistoricalMap | 626,000 |
| Cape Colony | OpenHistoricalMap · historical-basemaps | 610,000 |
| German Reich | OpenHistoricalMap | 561,000 |
| Chile | OpenHistoricalMap · historical-basemaps | 549,000 |
| Spain | OpenHistoricalMap | 529,000 |
| Empire of Japan (1879-1895) | OpenHistoricalMap | 510,000 |
| Paraguay | OpenHistoricalMap | 487,000 |
| Burma | Cliopatria Q836 | 419,000 |
| Alawi Sultanate | OpenHistoricalMap | 392,000 |
| United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | OpenHistoricalMap | 383,000 |
| Wadai Empire | Cliopatria · historical-basemaps Q1132786 | 379,000 |
| Captaincy General of the Philippines | OpenHistoricalMap | 348,000 |
| Spanish Philippines | OpenHistoricalMap | 343,000 |
| Ethiopian Empire | Cliopatria · historical-basemaps Q207521 | 342,000 |
| Emirate of Nejd | Cliopatria Q146862 | 325,000 |
| Colony of New Zealand | OpenHistoricalMap | 318,000 |
| Đại Nam | OpenHistoricalMap | 317,000 |
All 256 names
| Name | Record | Drawn area (km²) |
|---|---|---|
| Kingdom of Italy | OpenHistoricalMap | 314,000 |
| Sultanate of Utetera | historical-basemaps | 305,000 |
| Transvaal Colony | OpenHistoricalMap | 284,000 |
| Sultinate of Zanzibar | historical-basemaps | 271,000 |
| Joseon | OpenHistoricalMap | 268,000 |
| Aden Protectorate | OpenHistoricalMap | 251,000 |
| French Third Republic | Cliopatria · historical-basemaps Q70802 | 241,000 |
| Colony of Victoria | OpenHistoricalMap | 238,000 |
| Bornu Empire | Cliopatria Q1139762 | 228,000 |
| Crown Colony of Newfoundland | OpenHistoricalMap | 227,000 |
| Mossi States | historical-basemaps | 207,000 |
| Kingdom of the Netherlands | OpenHistoricalMap | 195,000 |
| Emirate of Bukhara | OpenHistoricalMap | 189,000 |
| Lozi | historical-basemaps | 188,000 |
| Yeke | historical-basemaps | 187,000 |
| Uruguay | OpenHistoricalMap | 182,000 |
| Kong Empire | historical-basemaps | 180,000 |
| British Empire | Cliopatria Q8680 | 176,000 |
| New Spain (1865-1899) | OpenHistoricalMap | 170,000 |
| Mirambo Unyanyembe Ukimbu | historical-basemaps | 169,000 |
| Captaincy General of Cuba | OpenHistoricalMap | 152,000 |
| Nepal | OpenHistoricalMap | 148,000 |
| French Africa | Cliopatria | 145,000 |
| Kanem-Bornu | historical-basemaps | 142,000 |
| Emirate of Jabal Shammar | Cliopatria Q5362837 | 136,000 |
| Sultanate of Hobyo | OpenHistoricalMap | 134,000 |
| Egypt | historical-basemaps | 134,000 |
| United Romanian Principalities | OpenHistoricalMap | 132,000 |
| Orange Free State | OpenHistoricalMap | 131,000 |
| Kingdom of Portugal | OpenHistoricalMap · Cliopatria Q45670 | 124,000 |
| Dendi Kingdom | historical-basemaps | 120,000 |
| Honduras | OpenHistoricalMap | 120,000 |
| Sultanate of Muscat and Oman | OpenHistoricalMap | 117,000 |
| Majeerteen Sultanate | OpenHistoricalMap | 115,000 |
| Borgu States | historical-basemaps | 114,000 |
| Kingdom of Lunda | Cliopatria Q1796223 | 110,000 |
| Nicaragua | OpenHistoricalMap | 106,000 |
| Ashanti Empire | Cliopatria Q722071 | 104,000 |
| Sultanate of Dar al Kuti | OpenHistoricalMap | 100,000 |
| Liberia | OpenHistoricalMap | 99,700 |
| British Colonial Empire | Cliopatria Q8680 | 98,100 |
| Barotse | historical-basemaps | 97,600 |
| Guatemala | OpenHistoricalMap | 95,200 |
| Sultanate of Qishn and Socotra | OpenHistoricalMap | 90,500 |
| Colony of Tasmania | OpenHistoricalMap | 88,600 |
| Colony of French Guiana | OpenHistoricalMap | 86,600 |
| Sultanate of Oman | Cliopatria Q842 | 85,600 |
| Kingdom of Greece | OpenHistoricalMap | 81,300 |
| Lagos Colony | OpenHistoricalMap | 81,300 |
| Trucial States | OpenHistoricalMap | 80,900 |
| British Guiana | OpenHistoricalMap | 80,000 |
| Shona | historical-basemaps | 79,300 |
| Kingdom of Sarawak | Cliopatria Q1658411 | 78,100 |
| Colony of Sierra Leone | OpenHistoricalMap | 76,500 |
| Lunda | historical-basemaps | 76,300 |
| British Ceylon | OpenHistoricalMap | 75,700 |
| Mbailundu | historical-basemaps | 72,700 |
| Malaya | historical-basemaps | 71,700 |
| Yaka | historical-basemaps | 67,500 |
| Gold Coast Colony | OpenHistoricalMap | 65,400 |
| Sultanate of Maguindanao | OpenHistoricalMap | 64,900 |
| Harer (Egypt) | historical-basemaps | 62,800 |
| Ovimbundu | historical-basemaps | 61,000 |
| Kuba | historical-basemaps | 60,900 |
| Colony of Cochinchina | OpenHistoricalMap | 60,900 |
| Costa Rica | OpenHistoricalMap | 60,100 |
| Ndebele | historical-basemaps | 59,700 |
| Bunyoro | historical-basemaps | 58,900 |
| Buganda | historical-basemaps | 58,500 |
| Dominican Republic | OpenHistoricalMap | 56,300 |
| Teke | historical-basemaps | 53,300 |
| Angola (Portugal) | historical-basemaps | 52,900 |
| Portuguese Guinea | OpenHistoricalMap · historical-basemaps | 51,800 |
| British Western Pacific Territories | OpenHistoricalMap | 48,700 |
| Transvaal | historical-basemaps | 48,600 |
| Principality of Serbia | OpenHistoricalMap | 48,100 |
| Morocco | Cliopatria · historical-basemaps Q1028 | 47,800 |
| Colony of the Bahamas | OpenHistoricalMap | 47,200 |
| Colony of Natal | OpenHistoricalMap | 46,900 |
| Colony of Fiji | OpenHistoricalMap | 43,400 |
| Pahang Sultanate | Cliopatria | 41,400 |
| Switzerland | OpenHistoricalMap | 41,200 |
| Kingdom of Rwanda | OpenHistoricalMap | 40,000 |
| Bhutan | OpenHistoricalMap | 39,200 |
| Khanate of Khiva (1873-1920) | OpenHistoricalMap | 37,200 |
| New Caledonia | OpenHistoricalMap | 36,500 |
| Republic of Haiti | OpenHistoricalMap | 35,700 |
| Nguni | historical-basemaps | 35,400 |
| J'rai | OpenHistoricalMap | 35,100 |
| Sultanate of Damagaram | historical-basemaps | 32,700 |
| British Honduras Colony | OpenHistoricalMap | 31,700 |
| Sultanate of the Maldive Islands | OpenHistoricalMap | 31,300 |
| Portuguese Empire | Cliopatria Q200464 | 31,000 |
| Futa Jalon | historical-basemaps | 30,400 |
| Mosquito Reserve | OpenHistoricalMap | 30,200 |
| Ngwato | historical-basemaps | 30,000 |
| Belgium | OpenHistoricalMap | 29,900 |
| Hawaiian Kingdom | OpenHistoricalMap | 28,600 |
| Kingdom of Burundi | OpenHistoricalMap | 26,900 |
| Zululand | Cliopatria | 25,600 |
| People's Republic of Zanzibar | Cliopatria | 24,300 |
| Rattanakosin Kingdom | Cliopatria Q1155700 | 24,200 |
| El Salvador | OpenHistoricalMap | 22,900 |
| Manipur State | OpenHistoricalMap | 22,400 |
| Sultanate of Brunei | Cliopatria Q887803 | 21,800 |
| Perak Protectorate | OpenHistoricalMap | 21,300 |
| Basutoland | historical-basemaps | 21,300 |
| Chan Santa Cruz | OpenHistoricalMap | 20,900 |
| Kingdom of Jolof | OpenHistoricalMap | 20,500 |
| Kingdom of Dahomey | OpenHistoricalMap | 20,400 |
| Sultanate of Johor | Cliopatria Q1150344 | 20,400 |
| Rabih az-Zubayr | historical-basemaps | 20,300 |
| Gabon | historical-basemaps | 19,700 |
| Portuguese Timor | OpenHistoricalMap | 19,400 |
| Luba | historical-basemaps | 19,400 |
| Dahomey | historical-basemaps | 19,200 |
| Congo | historical-basemaps | 19,000 |
| Colony of Jamaica | OpenHistoricalMap | 18,900 |
| Bundu | OpenHistoricalMap | 18,900 |
| Sultanate of Sulu | OpenHistoricalMap | 18,500 |
| British Mauritius | OpenHistoricalMap | 16,000 |
| Sultanate of Terengganu | Cliopatria Q5769444 | 14,900 |
| Ivory Coast | historical-basemaps | 14,900 |
| Ato trading confederacy | historical-basemaps | 14,400 |
| Kingdom of Cayor | OpenHistoricalMap | 14,100 |
| Spanish Guinea | historical-basemaps | 13,600 |
| Captaincy General of Puerto Rico | OpenHistoricalMap | 12,800 |
| Swaziland | historical-basemaps | 12,700 |
| Cyprus Protectorate | OpenHistoricalMap | 12,400 |
| Calabar | historical-basemaps | 12,300 |
| Benin | historical-basemaps | 12,100 |
| Gambia Colony and Protectorate | OpenHistoricalMap | 11,700 |
| Kingdom of Niani | OpenHistoricalMap | 11,700 |
| Griqualand West | historical-basemaps | 10,900 |
| Kingdom of Luang Phrabang | Cliopatria | 10,500 |
| Selangor Protectorate | OpenHistoricalMap | 9,550 |
| Sultanate of Kedah | Cliopatria Q1317579 | 9,370 |
| Algeria (FR) | historical-basemaps | 9,200 |
| Principality of Montenegro | OpenHistoricalMap | 9,010 |
| Spanish Posessions on the Gulf of Guinea | OpenHistoricalMap | 8,920 |
| Kelantan | Cliopatria Q185944 | 8,610 |
| Kingdom of Tonga | OpenHistoricalMap | 8,310 |
| Sultanate of Lahej | OpenHistoricalMap | 8,120 |
| Mozambique | historical-basemaps | 7,850 |
| Colony of Trinidad | OpenHistoricalMap | 7,680 |
| Obock Colony | OpenHistoricalMap | 7,600 |
| Sultanate of Zanzibar | OpenHistoricalMap | 7,260 |
| Trucial Oman | historical-basemaps | 7,050 |
| Opobo | historical-basemaps | 7,000 |
| Negri Sembilan Protectorate | OpenHistoricalMap | 6,960 |
| British Windward Islands | OpenHistoricalMap | 6,910 |
| Colony of the Straits Settlement | OpenHistoricalMap | 6,500 |
| British Cape Colony | Cliopatria Q370736 | 6,120 |
| Rwanda | historical-basemaps | 6,070 |
| Kingdom of Kakongo | OpenHistoricalMap | 6,050 |
| Kingdom of Wuli | OpenHistoricalMap | 5,410 |
| Natal | historical-basemaps | 5,180 |
| Colony of Guadelupe | OpenHistoricalMap | 4,740 |
| La Réunion | OpenHistoricalMap | 3,930 |
| Kingdom of Ngoyo | OpenHistoricalMap | 3,920 |
| Senegal (FR) | historical-basemaps | 3,610 |
| Chiangmai | Cliopatria Q52028 | 3,310 |
| Cotonou | historical-basemaps | 3,260 |
| Tahiti Colony | OpenHistoricalMap | 3,100 |
| Tukular Caliphate | historical-basemaps | 3,050 |
| Samoa | historical-basemaps | 2,960 |
| Luxembourg | OpenHistoricalMap | 2,590 |
| Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe | OpenHistoricalMap | 2,560 |
| Kingdom of Sine | OpenHistoricalMap | 2,320 |
| Protectorate of Bahrain | OpenHistoricalMap | 2,180 |
| Confederate States of Lanao | OpenHistoricalMap | 2,060 |
| German Africa | Cliopatria | 1,940 |
| Territory of Ifni | OpenHistoricalMap | 1,920 |
| Danish West Indies | OpenHistoricalMap | 1,890 |
| Haushabi Sultanate | OpenHistoricalMap | 1,860 |
| Mayotte | OpenHistoricalMap | 1,620 |
| Walvis Bay Colony | OpenHistoricalMap | 1,610 |
| Cayman Islands | OpenHistoricalMap | 1,520 |
| Isle of Man | OpenHistoricalMap | 1,350 |
| Sultanate of Ndzuwani | OpenHistoricalMap | 1,260 |
| French Nosy Be | OpenHistoricalMap | 1,110 |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | OpenHistoricalMap | 1,100 |
| Jersey | OpenHistoricalMap | 984 |
| Crown Colony of Malta | OpenHistoricalMap | 925 |
| Sultanate of Mwali | OpenHistoricalMap | 923 |
| Guernsey | OpenHistoricalMap | 909 |
| Nosy Boraha | OpenHistoricalMap | 888 |
| French India | OpenHistoricalMap | 792 |
| Pitcairn Islands | OpenHistoricalMap | 691 |
| Portuguese India | OpenHistoricalMap | 654 |
| Colony of Labuan | OpenHistoricalMap | 638 |
| Brunei | historical-basemaps | 612 |
| French Tourane | OpenHistoricalMap | 590 |
| Colony of Bermuda | OpenHistoricalMap | 555 |
| Alawi Sheikhdom | OpenHistoricalMap | 538 |
| Saint Helena Crown Colony | OpenHistoricalMap | 508 |
| Andorra | OpenHistoricalMap | 467 |
| Niue | historical-basemaps | 252 |
| American Samoa | historical-basemaps | 234 |
| Polynesians | historical-basemaps | 192 |
| Wallis and Futuna Islands | historical-basemaps | 166 |
| British Hong Kong | OpenHistoricalMap | 160 |
| Heligoland | OpenHistoricalMap | 156 |
| Liechtenstein | OpenHistoricalMap | 156 |
| San Marino | OpenHistoricalMap | 60.1 |
| Monaco | OpenHistoricalMap | 17.9 |
What changed since 1878
Names counted are those the records date to the year or the day (CShapes, OpenHistoricalMap, Cliopatria). Outlines filled from the nearest historical-basemaps sheet are counted only when both years are years that sheet was drawn for — otherwise the change would be the switch between two sheets, not a change in the world. Names are compared as written, so a polity a record names differently in the two years (Carthaginian Empire, then Carthage) is in both lists.
Now drawn (5)
Upper River, Protectorate of Afghanistan, Empire of Japan (1879-1895), United Romanian Principalities, Tahiti Colony
No longer drawn (9)
Pampas cultures, Empire of Japan (1869-1879), Patagonian shellfish and marine mammal hunters, Oman, Bahawalpur State, Wassoulou Empire, Futa Toro, Mapuche, Tahiti Protectorate
Events dated to 1880
The index of dated events holds no event for 1880.
Sources and method
Borders and names: OpenHistoricalMap (openhistoricalmap.org) · CC0 1.0 + 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 + aourednik/historical-basemaps (github.com/aourednik/historical-basemaps) · GPL-3.0 · adapted by IntMap: each sheet before 1886 less the ground OpenHistoricalMap and Cliopatria state at that sheet's year.
Which years have a page is worked out when the site is built, from three rules applied to the records themselves: every year the historical-basemaps atlas drew a world sheet for; every year whose change from the year before (names the dated records begin or stop drawing) is in the top 5% of all such year-to-year changes since the dated records begin, leaving out the years where one record hands over to another; and every year of a geopolitical, war or revolution event in the dated events index, up to the last year the border records cover (2019).
On each year the map is read on 1 July, the instant the app’s own year links open on. Names are the source’s own, translated where the source or IntMap’s name table has a translation. A name is what a record draws there, not a verdict of history.
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