The world in 2015

On 1 July 2015, IntMap’s historical map draws 198 names across 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.

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World map on 1 July 2015: the borders IntMap’s historical map draws on that date, 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.
Drawn when the site is built from the same records and the same code the map uses, on 1 July 2015, in the Equal Earth projection. The picture is simplified for display only: each outline is reduced to about one pixel at this size, and outlines smaller than a pixel are left out of the picture — the map itself draws every one of them in full. Grey is land on which no record states a polity on this date (today’s coastline, Natural Earth 1:110m).

Why this year has a page

The year of November 2015 Paris attacks, Paris Agreement (dated events index, Wikidata).

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.

NameRecordDrawn area (km²)
RussiaCShapes 2.016,800,000
CanadaCShapes 2.09,930,000
United StatesCShapes 2.09,460,000
ChinaCShapes 2.09,370,000
BrazilCShapes 2.08,510,000
AustraliaCShapes 2.07,710,000
IndiaCShapes 2.03,160,000
ArgentinaCShapes 2.02,780,000
KazakhstanCShapes 2.02,720,000
Democratic Republic of the CongoCShapes 2.02,340,000
AlgeriaCShapes 2.02,320,000
DenmarkCShapes 2.0 · Cliopatria Q352,260,000
MexicoCShapes 2.01,970,000
Saudi ArabiaCShapes 2.01,930,000
IndonesiaCShapes 2.01,900,000
SudanCShapes 2.01,870,000
IranCShapes 2.01,620,000
LibyaCShapes 2.01,620,000
MongoliaCShapes 2.01,560,000
PeruCShapes 2.01,300,000
ChadCShapes 2.01,280,000
MaliCShapes 2.01,260,000
AngolaCShapes 2.01,250,000
South AfricaCShapes 2.01,220,000
NigerCShapes 2.01,190,000
ColombiaCShapes 2.01,140,000
EthiopiaCShapes 2.01,130,000
BoliviaCShapes 2.01,090,000
MauritaniaCShapes 2.01,040,000
EgyptCShapes 2.01,000,000
TanzaniaCShapes 2.0946,000
VenezuelaCShapes 2.0 · Cliopatria Q717929,000
NigeriaCShapes 2.0913,000
PakistanCShapes 2.0878,000
NamibiaCShapes 2.0827,000
MozambiqueCShapes 2.0790,000
TurkeyCShapes 2.0781,000
ZambiaCShapes 2.0755,000
ChileCShapes 2.0749,000
MoroccoCShapes 2.0674,000
MyanmarCShapes 2.0670,000
AfghanistanCShapes 2.0642,000
SomaliaCShapes 2.0640,000
South SudanCShapes 2.0630,000
Central African RepublicCShapes 2.0621,000
MadagascarCShapes 2.0596,000
KenyaCShapes 2.0585,000
BotswanaCShapes 2.0580,000
UkraineCShapes 2.0570,000
FranceCShapes 2.0548,000
All 198 names
NameRecordDrawn area (km²)
ThailandCShapes 2.0515,000
SpainCShapes 2.0507,000
TurkmenistanCShapes 2.0472,000
CameroonCShapes 2.0467,000
Papua New GuineaCShapes 2.0466,000
YemenCShapes 2.0456,000
UzbekistanCShapes 2.0446,000
SwedenCShapes 2.0444,000
IraqCShapes 2.0436,000
ParaguayCShapes 2.0400,000
ZimbabweCShapes 2.0391,000
JapanCShapes 2.0375,000
GermanyCShapes 2.0356,000
CongoCShapes 2.0346,000
FinlandCShapes 2.0334,000
MalaysiaCShapes 2.0331,000
VietnamCShapes 2.0327,000
Cote D'IvoireCShapes 2.0323,000
NorwayCShapes 2.0322,000
PolandCShapes 2.0311,000
OmanCShapes 2.0310,000
ItalyCShapes 2.0301,000
PhilippinesCShapes 2.0299,000
Burkina FasoCShapes 2.0273,000
New ZealandCShapes 2.0271,000
GabonCShapes 2.0263,000
EcuadorCShapes 2.0257,000
GuineaCShapes 2.0246,000
United KingdomCShapes 2.0246,000
UgandaCShapes 2.0243,000
GhanaCShapes 2.0240,000
RomaniaCShapes 2.0237,000
LaosCShapes 2.0231,000
GuyanaCShapes 2.0212,000
BelarusCShapes 2.0207,000
KyrgyzstanCShapes 2.0199,000
SenegalCShapes 2.0197,000
SyriaCShapes 2.0187,000
CambodiaCShapes 2.0183,000
UruguayCShapes 2.0178,000
TunisiaCShapes 2.0156,000
NepalCShapes 2.0147,000
SurinameCShapes 2.0146,000
TajikistanCShapes 2.0142,000
BangladeshCShapes 2.0139,000
GreeceCShapes 2.0132,000
Russian FederationCliopatria Q159130,000
NicaraguaCShapes 2.0129,000
North KoreaCShapes 2.0123,000
EritreaCShapes 2.0122,000
MalawiCShapes 2.0119,000
BeninCShapes 2.0117,000
HondurasCShapes 2.0113,000
BulgariaCShapes 2.0111,000
CubaCShapes 2.0111,000
GuatemalaCShapes 2.0109,000
IcelandCShapes 2.0103,000
South KoreaCShapes 2.098,300
LiberiaCShapes 2.096,500
HungaryCShapes 2.092,700
PortugalCShapes 2.092,300
JordanCShapes 2.089,300
AzerbaijanCShapes 2.086,100
French Guiana (France)CShapes 2.084,200
AustriaCShapes 2.083,700
Czech RepublicCShapes 2.078,500
SerbiaCShapes 2.077,000
PanamaCShapes 2.075,500
Kingdom of NorwayCliopatria Q2074,200
Sierra LeoneCShapes 2.072,900
United Arab EmiratesCShapes 2.070,900
IrelandCShapes 2.070,000
GeorgiaCShapes 2.069,900
Sri LankaCShapes 2.066,800
LithuaniaCShapes 2.064,800
LatviaCShapes 2.064,500
TogoCShapes 2.057,300
CroatiaCShapes 2.056,000
Costa RicaCShapes 2.051,600
Bosnia-HerzegovinaCShapes 2.051,400
SlovakiaCShapes 2.048,800
Dominican RepublicCShapes 2.048,700
EstoniaCShapes 2.046,000
SwitzerlandCShapes 2.041,400
BhutanCShapes 2.039,900
TaiwanCShapes 2.036,200
NetherlandsCShapes 2.035,000
Guinea-BissauCShapes 2.033,600
MoldovaCShapes 2.033,600
LesothoCShapes 2.030,600
BelgiumCShapes 2.030,500
ArmeniaCShapes 2.029,600
AlbaniaCShapes 2.028,700
IsraelCShapes 2.028,100
Solomon IslandsCShapes 2.027,800
HaitiCShapes 2.027,500
BurundiCShapes 2.027,300
Equatorial GuineaCShapes 2.027,200
North MacedoniaCShapes 2.025,400
RwandaCShapes 2.025,300
New Caledonia (France)CShapes 2.024,000
BelizeCShapes 2.022,300
DjiboutiCShapes 2.021,600
British Overseas TerritoriesCliopatria Q4639521,400
El SalvadorCShapes 2.020,700
SloveniaCShapes 2.020,400
Commonwealth of NationsCliopatria Q778519,700
FijiCShapes 2.018,500
VanuatuCliopatria Q68617,400
SwazilandCShapes 2.017,100
KuwaitCShapes 2.017,000
East TimorCShapes 2.015,300
MontenegroCShapes 2.014,000
French Fifth RepublicCliopatria Q20068613,100
French Polynesia (France)CShapes 2.013,000
BahamasCShapes 2.012,800
JamaicaCShapes 2.011,200
QatarCShapes 2.011,200
GambiaCShapes 2.010,900
KosovoCShapes 2.010,700
Republic of BrazilCliopatria Q15510,700
LebanonCShapes 2.010,300
Puerto Rico (USA)CShapes 2.09,310
CyprusCShapes 2.09,300
BruneiCShapes 2.05,770
Trinidad and TobagoCShapes 2.05,240
MauritiusCShapes 2.0 · Cliopatria Q10274,650
Cape VerdeCShapes 2.04,040
Reunion (France)CShapes 2.02,660
LuxembourgCShapes 2.02,570
ComorosCShapes 2.01,770
Guadeloupe (France)CShapes 2.01,700
São Tomé and PríncipeCliopatria Q10391,490
Commonwealth of DominicaCliopatria Q7841,270
Martinique (France)CShapes 2.01,200
Saint LuciaCliopatria Q760835
BahrainCShapes 2.0690
Antigua and BarbudaCliopatria Q781666
PalauCliopatria Q695662
Saint VincentCliopatria Q757641
MicronesiaCliopatria Q3359409611
SingaporeCShapes 2.0565
GrenadaCliopatria Q769529
Saint KittsCliopatria Q204989520
BarbadosCShapes 2.0457
MaltaCShapes 2.0292
SeychellesCliopatria Q1042259
MaldivesCShapes 2.027.8

What changed since 2014

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 (0)

none

No longer drawn (0)

none

Events dated to 2015

Every record of IntMap’s one index of dated events whose date falls in this year: what the border record (CShapes 2.0) states about its own outlines, IntMap’s war record, and the world events Wikidata dates — each with its source and the precision of its date.

  1. 2015

    November 2015 Paris attacks

    series of terrorist attacks in Paris, France, Europe, on November 13, 2015

    2015-11-13 · Wikidata Q21479779

  2. 2015

    Paris Agreement

    2015 international treaty regarding climate change

    2015-12-12 · Wikidata Q21707860

  3. 2015

    Falcon 9 Flight 20

    20th launch of the Falcon 9 rocket, carrying 11 Orbcomm-OG2 satellites; first landing of an orbital rocket first stage

    launched 2015-12-22 · Wikidata Q21738197

Sources 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.

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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