Historical world map · 2023
World map in 2023
The latest annual CShapes frame currently available in this explorer. This sourced reconstruction contains 199 mapped regions and 199 distinct source labels.
- Mapped shapes
- 199
- Named labels
- 199
- Geometry points
- 196,248
- Data source
- CShapes 2.1 borders
Interactive world map for 2023
Named in the source
Countries, territories, and regions mapped in 2023
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
- 199
- Unlabeled shapes
- 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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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
Source, license, and download
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
Reuse terms: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Check the original project for full attribution and reuse requirements.