Historical world map · 100

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An ancient-world reconstruction where authority often cannot be reduced to a surveyed modern border. This sourced reconstruction contains 440 mapped geometries. 86 have source labels representing 84 distinct names; 354 have no usable source label.

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Mapped geometries: 440
Labeled geometries: 86
Distinct labels: 84
Data source: Historical Basemaps borders

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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.

Distinct named labels: 84
Unlabeled geometries: 354

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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

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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

These precision categories cover all mapped geometries. Label coverage is reported separately above, so the two sets of counts should not be added together.

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Historical boundary snapshots for countries and cultural regions, used through 2010. Coverage: 53 available snapshots from prehistory through 2010

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Reuse terms: GPL-3.0 repository license. Check the original project for full attribution and reuse requirements.

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