Historical world map · 1914
World map in 1914
A snapshot of the world immediately before the First World War, which transformed empires and state borders. This sourced reconstruction contains 177 mapped geometries. 142 carry usable source labels; 33 are unlabeled in the original data.
- Mapped shapes
- 177
- Named labels
- 142
- Geometry points
- 35,615
- Data source
- Historical Basemaps borders
Interactive world map for 1914
Named in the source
Countries, territories, and regions mapped in 1914
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
- 142
- Unlabeled shapes
- 33
- Abyssinia
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- American Samoa
- Anglo-Egyption Sudan
- Angola
- Anguilla
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Arabia (Nejd)
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Australia
- Austro-Hungarian Empire
- Azerbaijan
- Barbados
- Belgian Congo
- Belgium
- Belize
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Botswana
- Brazil
- British East Africa
- British Protectorate
- British Raj
- British Somaliland
- Brunei
- Bulgaria
- Canada
- Ceylon
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Denmark
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Empire of Japan
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Fiji
- Finland
- France
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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
- 177
- Unlabeled source geometries
- 33
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.