Historical world map · 100

World map in 100

An ancient-world reconstruction where authority often cannot be reduced to a surveyed modern border. This sourced reconstruction contains 440 mapped geometries. 84 carry usable source labels; 354 are unlabeled in the original data.

Mapped shapes
440
Named labels
84
Geometry points
30,235
Data source
Historical Basemaps borders

Interactive world map for 100

Primary view
100 CE
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100 CE
123,000 BC2,023 CE

Named in the source

States, realms, and regions mapped in 100

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
84
Unlabeled shapes
354
  • 1
  • Ainu
  • Alans
  • 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
  • Gaya
  • Glades Culture
  • Goodall Focus
  • Guanches
  • Hadramaut
  • Hainan
  • Han
  • Himyarite Kingdom
  • Hindu kingdoms
  • Hopewell Culture
  • Kalinga
  • Khoiasan
  • Koguryo
  • Kushan Empire
  • Laurel complex
  • Marksville Culture
  • Maya chiefdoms and states
  • Meroe
  • Mill Creek Culture
  • Miller
  • Milograd culture
  • Moche
  • Monte Albán
Show 36 more named labels
  • Nabatean Kingdom
  • Nazca
  • North American Pacifi foraging, hunting and fishing peoples
  • Paekche
  • Paleo-Inuit
  • Paleo-Siberian hunter-gatherers
  • Pampas cultures
  • Parthian Empire
  • Patagonian shellfish and marine mammal hunters
  • Plain bison hunters
  • Plain-Pottery culture
  • Plateau fichers and hunter gatherers
  • Point Peninsula
  • Pomeranian culture
  • Porter
  • Roman Empire
  • Saami
  • Saka Kingdom
  • Sambian-Nothangian culture
  • Satavahanihara
  • Saugeen Complex
  • Savanna hunter-gatherers
  • Scythians
  • Shellfish gatherers
  • Silla
  • Simhala
  • Southern Xiongnu
  • Subarctic forest hunter-gatherers
  • Suren Kingdom
  • Swift Creek Culture
  • Tasmanian hunter-gatherers
  • Teotihuacán
  • West African cereal farmers
  • Western Masurian culture
  • Yayoi
  • Yueban

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
440
Unlabeled source geometries
354

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.