Historical world map · 1000

World map in 1000

A medieval snapshot of kingdoms, empires, and regional authority around the turn of the millennium. This sourced reconstruction contains 264 mapped geometries. 132 have source labels representing 129 distinct names; 132 have no usable source label.

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Mapped geometries: 264
Labeled geometries: 132
Distinct labels: 129
Data source: Historical Basemaps borders

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Named in the source

States, realms, and regions mapped in 1000

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: 129
Unlabeled geometries: 132

Ainu
Alans
Alwa
Amazon hunter-gatherers
Andean hunter-gatherers
Annam
Aragón
Arawaks
Arctic marine mammal hunters
Armenia
Arran
Athabaskan
Australian aboriginal hunter-gatherers
Baltic Tribes
Bantou
Boethuk
Britany
Bulgar Khanate
Burgandy
Buwayhid Emirates
Buyid Emirate
Byzantine Empire
Caliphate of Córdoba
Caloosahatchee cultureure
Caribbean hunter-gatherers
Castilla
Celtic kingdoms
Chalukya Empire
Champa
Chauhans
Chimú Empire
Chola state
Chuds
Corsica
Croatia
Cyprus
Denmark-Norway
Desert hunter-gatherers
Dorset
Duchy of Swabia
Dutchy of Benevento
Dvaravati
East Java
Eastern North Amercian hunter-gatherers
Emirate of Sicily
England
Expansionist Kingdom of Merina
Fatimid Caliphate

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Finno-Ugric taiga hunter-gatherers
Georgia
Ghana
Ghaznavid Emirate
Great Zimbabwe
Guanahatabeyes
Guanches
Hadramaut
Hainan
Haripunjaya
Holy Roman Empire
Huari Empire
Icelandic Commonwealth
Imperial Japan (Fujiwara)
Innu
Islamic city-states
Kalinga
Kanem
Karelians
Khazars
Khmer Empire
Khoiasan
Kimek-Kipchak khaganate
Kingdom of France
Kingdom of Georgia
Kingdom of Pagan
Korea
Kurs
Kyivan Rus
León
Liao
Madagascar
Magyars
Makkura
Mali
Maya city-states
Mesoamerican city-states and chiefdoms
minor Hindu and Buddhist states
Muscat
Nan Chao
Navarre
North American Pacifi foraging, hunting and fishing peoples
Orissa
Palas
Paleo-Siberian hunter-gatherers
Pampas cultures
Patagonian shellfish and marine mammal hunters
Peshemegs
Plain bison hunters
Plateau fichers and hunter gatherers
Poland
Polynesians
Pomerania
Pratiharas
Prussians
Rajput kingdoms
Samis
Sardinia
Savanna hunter-gatherers
Scotland
Senas
Serbia
Shirvan
Song Empire
Srivijaya Empire
Subarctic forest hunter-gatherers
Suomi
Sweden
Taino
Takrur
Tasmanian hunter-gatherers
Thule
Tiahuanaco Empire
Tibet
Toltec Empire
Tuʻi Tonga Empire
Venice
Volga Bulgars
West African cereal farmers
Xixia
Yemen

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: 264

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

Source, license, and download

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

Original source Download snapshot JSON

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

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