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. 144 have source labels representing 142 distinct names; 33 have no usable source label.

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Mapped geometries: 177
Labeled geometries: 144
Distinct labels: 142
Data source: Historical Basemaps borders

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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.

Distinct named labels: 142
Unlabeled geometries: 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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French Equatorial Africa
French Guiana
French Indochina
French West Africa
Gambia, The
Georgia
German E. Africa (Tanganyika)
German Empire
German South-West Africa
Gold Coast
Greece
Grenada
Guadeloupe
Guatemala
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Hong Kong
Iceland
Italian Somaliland
Kamerun
Kingfom of Italy
Kuwait
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Luxembourg
Madagascar (France)
Malawi
Malaya
Malta
Manchu Empire
Martinique
Mexico
Mongolia
Montenegro
Montserrat
Morocco
Mozambique
Nepal
Netherlands
Netherlands Antilles
Netherlands Indies
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Nigeria
Niue
Norway
Ottoman Empire
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Persia
Peru
Philippines
Portugal
Portuguese Guinea
Puerto Rico
Qatar
Rapa Nui
Rattanakosin Kingdom
Rhodesia
Rio De Oro
Romania
Russian Empire
Saint Barthelemy
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Martin
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Sakhalin (RU)
Samoa
Serbia
Sierra Leone
South Africa
Spain
Spanish Morocco
Spanish Sahara
Suriname
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Tibet
Togoland
Tonga
Tunisia
Uganda
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
United States
United States Virgin Islands
Uruguay
Venezuela
Wallis and Futuna Islands
Xinjiang

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

These precision categories cover all mapped geometries. Label coverage is reported separately above, so the two sets of counts should not be added together.

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Historical boundary snapshots for countries and cultural regions, used through 2010. Coverage: 53 available snapshots from prehistory through 2010

Original source Download snapshot JSON

Reuse terms: GPL-3.0 repository license. Check the original project for full attribution and reuse requirements.

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Not every border deserves the same confidence

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