Historical world map · 1880
World map in 1880
A late-nineteenth-century snapshot during rapid imperial expansion and colonial partition. This sourced reconstruction contains 236 mapped geometries. 169 carry usable source labels; 63 are unlabeled in the original data.
- Mapped shapes
- 236
- Named labels
- 169
- Geometry points
- 36,185
- Data source
- Historical Basemaps borders
Interactive world map for 1880
Named in the source
Countries, territories, and regions mapped in 1880
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
- 169
- Unlabeled shapes
- 63
- Afghanistan
- Algeria (FR)
- American Samoa
- Angola (Portugal)
- Anguilla
- Annam
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Arabia
- Argentina
- Asante
- Ato trading confederacy
- Austria Hungary
- Barotse
- Basutoland
- Belgium
- Belize
- Benin
- Bhutan
- Bokhara Khanate
- Bolivia
- Borgu States
- Bosnia-Herzegovina
- British Guiana
- British Raj
- Brunei
- Buganda
- Bulgaria
- Bunyoro
- Burundi
- Calabar
- Canada
- Cape Colony
- central Asian khanates
- Ceylon
- Chile
- Colombia
- Congo
- Costa Rica
- Cotonou
- Dahomey
- Dendi Kingdom
- Denmark
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Dutch Guiana
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
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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.
- Determined by international law
- 234
- Moderately approximate
- 2
- Unlabeled source geometries
- 63
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.