Historical world map · 100 BC

World map in 100 BC

An ancient-world reconstruction where authority often cannot be reduced to a surveyed modern border. This sourced reconstruction contains 233 mapped geometries. 84 carry usable source labels; 148 are unlabeled in the original data.

Mapped shapes
233
Named labels
84
Geometry points
25,494
Data source
Historical Basemaps borders

Interactive world map for 100 BC

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123,000 BC2,023 CE

Named in the source

States, realms, and regions mapped in 100 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
84
Unlabeled shapes
148
  • Ainu
  • Amazon hunter-gatherers
  • Andean hunter-gatherers
  • Arakan
  • Arctic marine mammal hunters
  • Australian aboriginal hunter-gatherers
  • Bell-shaped burials culture
  • Blemmyes
  • Bosporan Kingdom
  • Brushed Pottery culture
  • Caribbean hunter-gatherers
  • Celts
  • Chavin
  • Chorrera
  • Copena
  • Couture Complex
  • Curonians
  • Daces
  • Desert hunter-gatherers
  • Eastern Masurian culture
  • Finno-Ugric taiga hunter-gatherers
  • Fourche Maline Culture
  • Glades Culture
  • Goodall Focus
  • Guanches
  • Hadramaut
  • Han Empire
  • Hindu kingdoms
  • Hopewell Culture
  • Hövsgöl Nuur
  • Khoiasan
  • Kushan Empire
  • Laurel complex
  • Maan
  • Manioc farmers
  • Marksville Culture
  • Mauretania
  • Mauryan Empire
  • Maya chiefdoms and states
  • Meroe
  • Mill Creek Culture
  • Miller
  • Milograd culture
  • Min-Yue
  • minor states
  • Monte Albán
  • Nabatean Kingdom
  • Nan-Yue
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  • Nazca
  • North American Pacifi foraging, hunting and fishing peoples
  • Numidia
  • Paleo-Siberian hunter-gatherers
  • Pampas cultures
  • Parthia
  • Patagonian shellfish and marine mammal hunters
  • Plain bison hunters
  • Plain-Pottery culture
  • Plateau fichers and hunter gatherers
  • Point Peninsula
  • Pomeranian culture
  • Porter
  • Ptolemaic Kingdom
  • Qataban
  • Roman Republic
  • Saami
  • Saba
  • Saces
  • Sambian-Nothangian culture
  • Sarmates
  • Saugeen Complex
  • Savanna hunter-gatherers
  • Scythians
  • Seleucid Kingdom
  • Shellfish gatherers
  • Simhala
  • Subarctic forest hunter-gatherers
  • Swift Creek Culture
  • Tasmanian hunter-gatherers
  • Teotihuacán
  • Wankarani
  • West African cereal farmers
  • Western Masurian culture
  • Xiongnu
  • Zhangzhung Kingdom

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
233
Unlabeled source geometries
148

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.