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. 160 have source labels representing 157 distinct names; 37 have no usable source label.

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Mapped geometries: 197
Labeled geometries: 160
Distinct labels: 157
Data source: Historical Basemaps borders

Historical world map reconstruction showing mapped regions in 1960 — Static map preview for 1960
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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.

Distinct named labels: 157
Unlabeled geometries: 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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France
French Guiana
Gabon
Gambia, The
Ghana
Greece
Greenland
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Ivory Coast
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kenya
Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
Korea, Republic of
Kuwait
Laos
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Luxembourg
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Mali
Mauritania
Mexico
Mongolia
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Niue
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Qatar
Rapa Nui
Romania
Rwanda
Samoa
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Taiwan
Tanzania, United Republic of
Thailand
Tibet
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad
Tunisia
Turkey
Turks and Caicos Islands
Uganda
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
Uruguay
USSR
Venezuela
Vietnam
Wallis and Futuna Islands
West Germany
Western Sahara
Yemen
Yugoslavia
Zaire
Zambia
Zimbabwe

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

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.

World map preview and interactive explorer for 1960

Not every border deserves the same confidence

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