Historical world map · 1400

World map in 1400

A late-medieval snapshot before sustained European expansion across the Atlantic. This sourced reconstruction contains 233 mapped geometries. 115 carry usable source labels; 111 are unlabeled in the original data.

Mapped shapes
233
Named labels
115
Geometry points
28,872
Data source
Historical Basemaps borders

Interactive world map for 1400

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1,400 CE
123,000 BC2,023 CE

Named in the source

States, realms, and regions mapped in 1400

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
115
Unlabeled shapes
111
  • Aceh
  • Ainus
  • Alwa
  • Amazon hunter-gatherers
  • Andean hunter-gatherers
  • Andean states and chiefdoms
  • Aragón
  • Athabaskan
  • Australian aboriginal hunter-gatherers
  • Aymara kingdoms
  • Ayutthaya
  • Bantou
  • Benin
  • Beothuk
  • Beylik of Aydin
  • Blue Horde
  • Bornu-Kanem
  • Bosnia
  • Britany
  • Bulgar Khanate
  • Byzantine Empire
  • Caloosahatchee cultureure
  • Caribbean hunter-gatherers
  • Castile
  • Chagatai Khanate
  • Champa
  • Chimú Empire
  • Chola state
  • Chūzan
  • Corsica
  • Cyprus
  • Đại Việt
  • Desert hunter-gatherers
  • Dorset
  • Eastern North Amercian hunter-gatherers
  • English territory
  • Ethiopia
  • Expansionist Kingdom of Merina
  • France
  • Georgia
  • Granada
  • Great Khanate
  • Great Zimbabwe
  • Guanahatabeyes
  • Guanches
  • Hadramaut
  • Hafsid Caliphate
  • Hainan
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  • Hokuzan
  • Holy Roman Empire
  • Innu
  • Islamic city-states
  • Kalinago
  • Kalmar Union
  • Kashmir and Ladakh
  • Kediri
  • Khmer Empire
  • Khoiasan
  • Kingdom of Hungary
  • Madagascar
  • Makkura
  • Mali
  • Mamluke Sultanate
  • Maori
  • Maya city-states
  • minor Hindu and Buddhist kingdoms
  • Mixtec Empire
  • Moldova
  • Morocco
  • Muscat
  • Nanzan
  • Navarre
  • North American Pacifi foraging, hunting and fishing peoples
  • Novgorod
  • Orissa
  • Ottoman Empire
  • Pagan
  • Pampas cultures
  • Pandya state
  • Papal States
  • Patagonian shellfish and marine mammal hunters
  • Plain bison hunters
  • Plateau fichers and hunter gatherers
  • Poland-Lithuania
  • Polynesians
  • Portugal
  • Principality of Wallachia
  • Sámi
  • Sardinia
  • Savanna hunter-gatherers
  • Scotland
  • Seljuk Caliphate
  • Shoa
  • Shogun Japan (Kamakura)
  • Shuar
  • Siberians
  • Sicily
  • Sinhalese kingdom
  • Srivijaya Empire
  • Subarctic forest hunter-gatherers
  • Sukhothai
  • Sultanate of Delhi
  • Taino
  • Tasmanian hunter-gatherers
  • Teutonic Knights
  • Thule
  • Tibet
  • Timurid Empire
  • Trebizond
  • Tuʻi Tonga Empire
  • Venice
  • West African cereal farmers
  • White Horde
  • Yemen
  • Zapotec Empire

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
111

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.