Historical world map · 1 BC
World map in 1 BC
An ancient-world reconstruction where authority often cannot be reduced to a surveyed modern border. This sourced reconstruction contains 442 mapped geometries. 79 carry usable source labels; 362 are unlabeled in the original data.
- Mapped shapes
- 442
- Named labels
- 79
- Geometry points
- 30,369
- Data source
- Historical Basemaps borders
Interactive world map for 1 BC
Named in the source
States, realms, and regions mapped in 1 BC
Usable source labels can mix states, empires, dependencies, cultural regions, and other mapped entities. Wording follows the dataset rather than forcing every shape into a modern-country category.
- Named labels
- 79
- Unlabeled shapes
- 362
- Ainu
- Amazon hunter-gatherers
- Andean hunter-gatherers
- Arakan
- Arctic marine mammal hunters
- Armenia
- Australian aboriginal hunter-gatherers
- Axum
- Bell-shaped burials culture
- Blemmyes
- Boihaenum
- Bosporian Kingdom
- Brushed Pottery culture
- Caribbean hunter-gatherers
- Copena
- Couture Complex
- Curonians
- Dacia
- Desert hunter-gatherers
- Dumonii
- Eastern Masurian culture
- Finno-Ugric taiga hunter-gatherers
- Fourche Maline Culture
- Glades Culture
- Goodall Focus
- Guanches
- Hadramaut
- Hainan
- Han
- Himyarite Kingdom
- Hindu kingdoms
- Hopewell Culture
- Judea
- Kalinga
- Khoiasan
- Koguryo
- Laurel complex
- Marksville Culture
- Mascat
- Maya chiefdoms and states
- Meroe
- Mill Creek Culture
- Miller
- Milograd culture
- Moche
- Monte Albán
- Nabatean Kingdom
- Nazca
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Precision in the source
Not every border deserves the same confidence
Precision is inherited from the dataset when available. It describes how the line was encoded, not the overall certainty of every historical claim inside the polygon.
- Approximate border
- 442
- Unlabeled source geometries
- 362
Source, license, and download
Historical boundary snapshots for countries and cultural regions, used through 2010. Coverage: 53 available snapshots from prehistory through 2010
Reuse terms: GPL-3.0 repository license. Check the original project for full attribution and reuse requirements.