Historical world map · 1500
World map in 1500
An early-modern threshold snapshot showing political regions at the start of the sixteenth century. This sourced reconstruction contains 291 mapped geometries. 139 carry usable source labels; 148 are unlabeled in the original data.
- Mapped shapes
- 291
- Named labels
- 139
- Geometry points
- 31,424
- Data source
- Historical Basemaps borders
Interactive world map for 1500
Named in the source
States, realms, and regions mapped in 1500
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
- 139
- Unlabeled shapes
- 148
- Aceh
- Adal
- Ahmadnagar
- Ainus
- Akan
- Algonquin
- Alwa
- Amazon hunter-gatherers
- Andean hunter-gatherers
- Apache
- Arabs
- Aragón
- Arakan
- Athabaskan
- Australian aboriginal hunter-gatherers
- Ayutthaya
- Aztec Empire
- Bahmani Kingdom
- Bantou
- Bella
- Bengal
- Benin
- Beothuk
- Bidar
- Bijapur
- Bornu-Kanem
- Britany
- Burmese kingdoms
- Calusa
- Cambodia
- Caribbean hunter-gatherers
- Castille
- Chagatai Khanate
- Champa
- Cherookee
- Cheyenne
- Comanche
- Congo
- Coqs
- Crimean Khanate
- Crow
- Cyprus
- Đại Việt
- Delaware
- Denmark-Norway
- Desert hunter-gatherers
- Emirate of the White Sheep Turks
- England
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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
- 291
- 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.