Historical world map · 1900
World map in 1900
A modern-era reconstruction of political regions and changing state borders. This sourced reconstruction contains 270 mapped geometries. 165 carry usable source labels; 48 are unlabeled in the original data.
- Mapped shapes
- 270
- Named labels
- 165
- Geometry points
- 35,604
- Data source
- Historical Basemaps borders
Interactive world map for 1900
Named in the source
Countries, territories, and regions mapped in 1900
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
- 165
- Unlabeled shapes
- 48
- Accra
- Afghanistan
- Algeria
- American Samoa
- Angola
- Anguilla
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Arabia
- Argentina
- Asante
- Ato trading confederacy
- Austria Hungary
- Barotse
- Basutoland
- Belgium
- Belize
- Benin
- Bhutan
- 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
- Denmark
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Dutch Guiana
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Ethiopia
- Fiji
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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
- 270
- Unlabeled source geometries
- 48
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.