Historical world map · 200 BC

World map in 200 BC

An ancient-world reconstruction where authority often cannot be reduced to a surveyed modern border. This sourced reconstruction contains 183 mapped geometries. 86 carry usable source labels; 97 are unlabeled in the original data.

Mapped shapes
183
Named labels
86
Geometry points
25,878
Data source
Historical Basemaps borders

Interactive world map for 200 BC

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123,000 BC2,023 CE

Named in the source

States, realms, and regions mapped in 200 BC

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
86
Unlabeled shapes
97
  • ?
  • Adena Culture
  • Ainu
  • Amazon hunter-gatherers
  • Andean hunter-gatherers
  • Arabs
  • Arakan
  • Arctic marine mammal hunters
  • Australian aboriginal hunter-gatherers
  • Bactria
  • Bell-shaped burials culture
  • Blemmyes
  • Bosporan Kingdom
  • Brushed Pottery culture
  • Caribbean hunter-gatherers
  • Carthage
  • Celts
  • Chavin
  • Chorrera
  • Curonians
  • Dardania
  • Desert hunter-gatherers
  • Eastern Masurian culture
  • Eastern North Amercian hunter-gatherers
  • Finno-Ugric taiga hunter-gatherers
  • Glades Culture
  • Guanches
  • Hadramaut
  • Han Empire
  • Iron Age chieftainships
  • Khoiasan
  • Kingdom of Gala
  • Kingdom of Syphax
  • Maan
  • Macedon and Hellenic League
  • Maize farmers
  • Malays
  • Manioc farmers
  • Mauretania
  • Mauryan Empire
  • Maya chiefdoms and states
  • Meroe
  • Milograd culture
  • Min-Yue
  • minor states
  • Mon-Khmer
  • Monte Albán
  • Nabatean Kingdom
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  • Nan-Yue
  • Norsemen
  • North American Pacifi foraging, hunting and fishing peoples
  • Paleo-Siberian hunter-gatherers
  • Pampas cultures
  • Papuan
  • Paracas
  • Parthia
  • Patagonian shellfish and marine mammal hunters
  • Pergamon
  • Plain bison hunters
  • Plain-Pottery culture
  • Plateau fichers and hunter gatherers
  • Pomeranian culture
  • Ptolemaic Kingdom
  • Qataban
  • Rome
  • Saami
  • Saba
  • Saharan Pastoral Nomads
  • Sambian-Nothangian culture
  • Savanna hunter-gatherers
  • Scythians
  • Seleucid Kingdom
  • Shellfish gatherers
  • Simhala
  • Subarctic forest hunter-gatherers
  • Tasmanian hunter-gatherers
  • Teotihuacán
  • Thai
  • Tungus
  • Turcik tribes
  • Wankarani
  • West African cereal farmers
  • Western Masurian culture
  • Xiongnu
  • Yuezhi
  • Zhangzhung Kingdom

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
183
Unlabeled source geometries
97

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.