Historical world map · 400
World map in 400
An ancient-world reconstruction where authority often cannot be reduced to a surveyed modern border. This sourced reconstruction contains 367 mapped geometries. 79 carry usable source labels; 287 are unlabeled in the original data.
- Mapped shapes
- 367
- Named labels
- 79
- Geometry points
- 29,075
- Data source
- Historical Basemaps borders
Interactive world map for 400
Named in the source
States, realms, and regions mapped in 400
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
- 79
- Unlabeled shapes
- 287
- Ainu
- Akatziri
- Alamans
- Amazon hunter-gatherers
- Andean hunter-gatherers
- Arctic marine mammal hunters
- Australian aboriginal hunter-gatherers
- Axum
- Blemmyes
- Burgunds
- Caribbean hunter-gatherers
- Caucasian Alans
- Copena
- Couture Complex
- Desert hunter-gatherers
- Dumonii
- Eastern Roman Empire
- Empire of Ghana
- Finno-Ugric taiga hunter-gatherers
- Fourche Maline Culture
- Franks
- Gaya
- Geats
- Gepids
- Glades Culture
- Goodall Focus
- Guanches
- Gupta Empire
- Hadramaut
- Hainan
- Himyarite Kingdom
- Hindu kingdoms
- Hopewell Culture
- Hunnic Empire
- Jin
- Khoiasan
- Koguryo
- Laurel complex
- Marksville Culture
- Maya chiefdoms and states
- Meroe
- Mill Creek Culture
- Miller
- Moche
- Monte Albán
- Nazca
- North American Pacifi foraging, hunting and fishing peoples
- Northern Liang
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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.
- Approximate border
- 367
- Unlabeled source geometries
- 287
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.