Historical world map · 1815

World map in 1815

A post-Napoleonic snapshot associated with the European settlement reached at Vienna. This sourced reconstruction contains 436 mapped geometries. 312 carry usable source labels; 102 are unlabeled in the original data.

Mapped shapes
436
Named labels
312
Geometry points
66,520
Data source
Historical Basemaps borders

Interactive world map for 1815

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1,815 CE
123,000 BC2,023 CE

Named in the source

Countries, territories, and regions mapped in 1815

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
312
Unlabeled shapes
102
  • Afghanistan
  • Alawa
  • Algiers
  • Alyawarre
  • Amangu
  • Amarak
  • Angola
  • Anguilla
  • Anhalt
  • Anmatyerre
  • Annam
  • Antakarinja
  • Antigua and Barbuda
  • Arakan
  • Arrernte
  • Asante
  • Assam
  • Australian aboriginal hunter-gatherers
  • Austrian Empire
  • Baden
  • Badimaya
  • Ballardong
  • Banjima
  • Barbados
  • Bardi
  • Bavaria
  • Bhutan
  • Bibbulman
  • Bilinara
  • Bornu-Kanem
  • Bremen
  • British East India Company
  • Brunei
  • Brunswick
  • Buganda
  • Bukurnidja
  • Bunyoro
  • Burma
  • Burundi
  • Cambodia
  • Canada
  • Cape Colony
  • central Asian khanates
  • Ceylon
  • Cochin China
  • Congo
  • Cuxhaven
  • Cyrenaica
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  • Dangbon
  • Delagoa Bay
  • Denmark
  • Dominica
  • Doolboong/Miriwoong
  • Dutch East Indies
  • Egypt
  • Electoral Hesse
  • Ethiopia
  • Expansionist Kingdom of Merina
  • Fante
  • Fivizzano
  • France
  • Fulani Empire
  • Gagudju
  • Gamberre
  • Goa
  • Gooniyandi
  • Goreng
  • Grand Duchy of Hesse
  • Grenada
  • Guadeloupe
  • Guanches
  • Guiana
  • Gunbalang
  • Gungurugoni
  • Gunibidji
  • Gunwinggu
  • Gurindji
  • Haiti
  • Hamburg
  • Hanover
  • Hohenzollern
  • Holstein
  • Hong Kong
  • Imbangala
  • Iwaidja
  • Jabirrjabirr
  • Jaburrara
  • Jaminjung
  • Japan
  • Jaru
  • Jawoyn
  • Jingili
  • Jiwarli
  • Jukun
  • Jurruru
  • Kaarta
  • Kadjerong
  • Kalaako/Malpa
  • Kalaamaya
  • Kaniyang
  • Karajarri
  • Karangpurru
  • Kariyarra
  • Kaytej
  • Kazembe
  • Kija
  • Kingdom of Sardinia
  • Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
  • Kokatha
  • Konbudj
  • Kongldom of Hawaii
  • Korea
  • Kukatja
  • Kundjey’mi
  • Kungarakany
  • Kuril Islands
  • Kurrama
  • Kuwarra
  • Kuwema
  • Kwini
  • Larrakia
  • Limilngan
  • Lippe-Detmold
  • Lombardy
  • Lozi
  • Lübeck
  • Lucca
  • Lunda
  • Luritja
  • Luxembourg
  • Malak malak
  • Malaya
  • Malkana
  • Manchu Empire
  • Mandjindja
  • Mangala
  • Mangarayi
  • Maori
  • Maranunggu
  • Maratha Confederacy
  • Mardu
  • Marramaninjsji
  • Marringarr
  • Marrithiyel
  • Martinique
  • Martuthunira
  • Massa
  • Maung
  • Maya
  • Mbukarla
  • Mecklenburg-Schwerin
  • Mecklenburg-Strelitz
  • Minang
  • Mirning
  • Miwa
  • Modena
  • Montserrat
  • Morocco
  • Mossi States
  • Mudburra
  • Murrinh-patha
  • Mysore (Indian princely state)
  • Nakako
  • Nana
  • Nassau
  • Nejd
  • Nepal
  • Netherlands Antilles
  • New South Wales
  • Ngaanyatjarra
  • Ngalakan
  • Ngalawangka
  • Ngalea
  • Ngaliwuru
  • Ngalkbun
  • Ngan’gikurunggurr
  • Ngan’giwumirri
  • Ngarinman
  • Ngarinyin
  • Ngarla
  • Ngarluma
  • Ngarti
  • Ngatatjara
  • Ngatjumay
  • Ngombur
  • Ngumbarl
  • Nhanta
  • Nhuwala
  • Nimanburu
  • Nkore
  • Nungali
  • Nyaki-nyaki
  • Nyamal
  • Nyanganyatjara
  • Nyangumarda
  • Nyikina
  • Nyul Nyul
  • Oldenburg
  • Oman
  • Ottoman Empire
  • Oudh
  • Oyo
  • Palatinate
  • Palyku
  • Pampas cultures
  • Papal States
  • Papou
  • Paraguay
  • Parma
  • Patagonian shellfish and marine mammal hunters
  • Payungu
  • Persia
  • Philippines
  • Pinikura
  • Pinjarup
  • Pintupi
  • Pitjantjatjara
  • Polynesians
  • Pontremoli
  • Portugal
  • Portuguese East Africa
  • Portuguese Guinea
  • Prussia
  • Punuba
  • Purduna
  • Rattanakosin Kingdom
  • Rembarnga
  • Republic of Kraków
  • Russian Empire
  • Rwanda
  • Saint Barthelemy
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis
  • Saint Lucia
  • Saint Martin
  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  • San Marino
  • Saxony
  • Schaumburg-Lippe
  • Schleswig
  • Senegal
  • Shuar
  • Sierra Leone
  • Sikkim (Indian princely state)
  • Somalia
  • Sotho
  • Spain
  • Sweden–Norway
  • Switzerland
  • Thalanyji
  • Tharrgari
  • Thiin
  • Thuringia
  • Tjalkanti
  • Tjerratj
  • Tjupany
  • Travancore
  • Trinidad
  • Tripolitania
  • Tuʻi Tonga Empire
  • Tunis
  • Turan
  • Tuscany
  • Umida
  • Unggarangi
  • Unggumi
  • United Kingdom
  • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
  • United Provinces of La Plata
  • United States
  • Venetia
  • Vice-Royalty of New Granada
  • Vice-Royalty of New Spain
  • Vice-Royalty of Peru
  • Viceroyalty of Brazil
  • Wagiman
  • Wajuk
  • Waldeck
  • Walmatjarri
  • Wangkathaa
  • Wardaman
  • Wardandi
  • Warlmanpa
  • Warlpiri
  • Warray
  • Warriyangga
  • Warumungu
  • Warwa
  • Watjarri
  • Wawula
  • Wetzlar
  • Wiilman
  • Wirangu
  • Woolna
  • Worla
  • Worora
  • Wudjari
  • Wunambul
  • Wuningangk
  • Württemberg
  • Xhosa
  • Yangman
  • Yankuntjatjara
  • Yawuru
  • Yemen
  • Yiiji
  • Yindjibarndi
  • Yinggarda
  • Yinhawangka
  • Yuat
  • Yulparitja
  • Zanzibar
  • Zulu

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.

Determined by international law
435
Approximate border
1
Unlabeled source geometries
102

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.