Historical world map · 200

World map in 200

An ancient-world reconstruction where authority often cannot be reduced to a surveyed modern border. This sourced reconstruction contains 354 mapped geometries. 69 carry usable source labels; 284 are unlabeled in the original data.

Mapped shapes
354
Named labels
69
Geometry points
30,221
Data source
Historical Basemaps borders

Interactive world map for 200

Primary view
200 CE
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200 CE
123,000 BC2,023 CE

Named in the source

States, realms, and regions mapped in 200

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
69
Unlabeled shapes
284
  • Ainu
  • Amazon hunter-gatherers
  • Andean hunter-gatherers
  • Arctic marine mammal hunters
  • Armenia
  • Australian aboriginal hunter-gatherers
  • Axum
  • Blemmyes
  • Boihaenum
  • Bosporian Kingdom
  • Caribbean hunter-gatherers
  • Chola
  • Copena
  • Couture Complex
  • Desert hunter-gatherers
  • Dumonii
  • Finno-Ugric taiga hunter-gatherers
  • Fourche Maline Culture
  • Gaya
  • Glades Culture
  • Goodall Focus
  • Guanches
  • Hadramaut
  • Hainan
  • Han
  • Heruli
  • Himyarite Kingdom
  • Hopewell Culture
  • Kalinga
  • Khoiasan
  • Koguryo
  • Laurel complex
  • Magadha
  • Marksville Culture
  • Maya chiefdoms and states
  • Meroe
  • Mill Creek Culture
  • Miller
  • Moche
  • Monte Albán
  • Nazca
  • North American Pacifi foraging, hunting and fishing peoples
  • Paekche
  • Paleo-Inuit
  • Paleo-Siberian hunter-gatherers
  • Pampas cultures
  • Parthian Empire
  • Patagonian shellfish and marine mammal hunters
Show 21 more named labels
  • Plain bison hunters
  • Plateau fichers and hunter gatherers
  • Point Peninsula
  • Porter
  • Roman Empire
  • Saka Kingdom
  • Sámi
  • Satavahanihara
  • Saugeen Complex
  • Savanna hunter-gatherers
  • Shellfish gatherers
  • Silla
  • Simhala
  • Southern Xiongnu
  • Subarctic forest hunter-gatherers
  • Suren Kingdom
  • Swift Creek Culture
  • Tasmanian hunter-gatherers
  • Teotihuacán
  • West African cereal farmers
  • Yueban

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.

Approximate border
354
Unlabeled source geometries
284

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.