Historical world map · 1200

World map in 1200

A high-medieval reconstruction before the Mongol conquests reshaped much of Eurasia. This sourced reconstruction contains 286 mapped geometries. 129 carry usable source labels; 150 are unlabeled in the original data.

Mapped shapes
286
Named labels
129
Geometry points
27,961
Data source
Historical Basemaps borders

Interactive world map for 1200

Primary view
1,200 CE
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1,200 CE
123,000 BC2,023 CE

Named in the source

States, realms, and regions mapped in 1200

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
129
Unlabeled shapes
150
  • Ainu
  • Almohad Caliphate
  • Alwa
  • Amazon hunter-gatherers
  • Andean hunter-gatherers
  • Angevin Empire
  • Aragón
  • Arawaks
  • Arctic marine mammal hunters
  • Armenia
  • Athabaskan
  • Australian aboriginal hunter-gatherers
  • Bagan
  • Bantou
  • Berber Tribes
  • Bhutan
  • Boethuk
  • Britany
  • Bulgar Khanate
  • Burgandy
  • Buwayhid Emirates
  • Buyiids
  • Byzantine Empire
  • Caloosahatchee cultureure
  • Caribbean hunter-gatherers
  • Castilla
  • Celtic kingdoms
  • Champa City States
  • Chimú Empire
  • Chola state
  • Comté de Toulouse
  • Corsica
  • Croatia
  • Cuman Khanates
  • Cyprus
  • Đại Việt
  • Denmark
  • Desert hunter-gatherers
  • Dorset
  • Dutchy of Benevento
  • East Java
  • Eastern North Amercian hunter-gatherers
  • Expansionist Kingdom of Merina
  • Fatimid Caliphate
  • Finno-Ugric taiga hunter-gatherers
  • Georgia
  • Ghana
  • Ghaznavid Emirate
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  • Goryeo
  • Great Zimbabwe
  • Guanahatabeyes
  • Guanches
  • Hadramaut
  • Hainan
  • Harapunchai
  • Holy Roman Empire
  • Huari Empire
  • Hungary
  • Ibadites
  • Ifat
  • Imperial Japan (Fujiwara)
  • Innu
  • Islamic city-states
  • Kamarupa
  • Kanem
  • Kara Khitai Khaganate
  • Khmer Empire
  • Khoiasan
  • Kingdom of France
  • Kwarizm-Shah
  • León
  • Liao
  • Madagascar
  • Makkura
  • Malays
  • Mali
  • Maya city-states
  • Mesoamerican city-states and chiefdoms
  • minor Hindu and Buddhist states
  • Mon state
  • Mongol Empire
  • Muscat
  • Nan Chao
  • Navarre
  • Nepal
  • North American Pacifi foraging, hunting and fishing peoples
  • Norway
  • Other Rus Principalities
  • Paleo-Siberian hunter-gatherers
  • Pampas cultures
  • Papal States
  • Papuans
  • Patagonian shellfish and marine mammal hunters
  • Plain bison hunters
  • Plateau fichers and hunter gatherers
  • Poland
  • Polynesians
  • Portugal
  • Principality of Galicia-Volhynia
  • Principality of Kyiv
  • Principality of Novgorod
  • Principality of Vladimir-Suzdal
  • Pyu state
  • Rajput Kingdoms
  • Sámi
  • Sardinia
  • Savanna hunter-gatherers
  • Scotland
  • Song Empire
  • Srivijaya Empire
  • Subarctic forest hunter-gatherers
  • Sultanate of Delhi
  • Sweden
  • Taino
  • Taiwanese Tribes
  • Takrur
  • Tasmanian hunter-gatherers
  • Thule
  • Tiahuanaco Empire
  • Tibet
  • Toltec Empire
  • Tuareg Nomadic Tribes
  • Tuʻi Tonga Empire
  • Tungusic Tribes
  • 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
286
Unlabeled source geometries
150

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.