Historical world map · 2015

World map in 2015

An annual CShapes frame of independent states and dependent territories. This sourced reconstruction contains 199 mapped geometries with source labels representing 199 distinct names.

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Mapped geometries: 199
Labeled geometries: 199
Distinct labels: 199
Data source: CShapes 2.1 borders

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Named in the source

Countries, territories, and regions mapped in 2015

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: 199
Unlabeled geometries: 0

Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
American Samoa
Andorra
Angola
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus (Byelorussia)
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso (Upper Volta)
Burundi
Cambodia (Kampuchea)
Cameroon
Canada
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile
China
Colombia
Comoros
Congo
Congo, Democratic Republic of (Zaire)
Costa Rica
Cote D'Ivoire
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic

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Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
East Timor
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
Fiji
Finland
France
French Guyana
French Polynesia
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia
German Federal Republic
Ghana
Greece
Greenland
Grenada
Guadeloupe
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran (Persia)
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy/Sardinia
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Korea, People's Republic of
Korea, Republic of
Kosovo
Kuwait
Kyrgyz Republic
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia (FYROM/North Macedonia)
Madagascar (Malagasy)
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Martinique
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Moldova
Mongolia
Montenegro
Montserrat
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar (Burma)
Namibia
Nepal
Netherlands
New Caledonia and Dependencies
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Niue
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Qatar
Reunion
Rumania
Russia (Soviet Union)
Rwanda
Saint Barthelemy
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Martin
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
South Sudan
Spain
Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
Sudan
Surinam
Swaziland (Eswatini)
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Tanzania (Tanganyika)
Thailand
Togo
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey (Ottoman Empire)
Turkmenistan
Turks and Caicos Islands
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States of America
United States Virgin Islands
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Venezuela
Vietnam, Democratic Republic of
Yemen (Arab Republic of Yemen)
Zambia
Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)

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: 199

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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Modern sovereign-border dataset used to extend yearly coverage from 2011 through 2023. Coverage: Independent states and dependent territories, 1886–2023; used here for 2011–2023

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Reuse terms: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Check the original project for full attribution and reuse requirements.

World map preview and interactive explorer for 2015

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