Historical world map · 1960
World map in 1960
A key decolonization-era snapshot during the year often called the Year of Africa. This sourced reconstruction contains 197 mapped geometries. 157 carry usable source labels; 37 are unlabeled in the original data.
- Mapped shapes
- 197
- Named labels
- 157
- Geometry points
- 35,159
- Data source
- Historical Basemaps borders
Interactive world map for 1960
Named in the source
Countries, territories, and regions mapped in 1960
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
- 157
- Unlabeled shapes
- 37
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- American Samoa
- Andorra
- Angola
- Antarctica
- Argentina
- Australia
- Austria
- Bahamas
- Belgium
- Belize
- Benin
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Brunei
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
- Burma
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Chile
- China
- Colombia
- Congo
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Cyprus
- Czechoslovakia
- Denmark
- Djibouti
- Dominican Republic
- East Germany
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Fiji
- Finland
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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
- 197
- Unlabeled source geometries
- 37
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.