Historical world map · 400 BC

World map in 400 BC

An ancient-world reconstruction where authority often cannot be reduced to a surveyed modern border. This sourced reconstruction contains 190 mapped geometries. 76 carry usable source labels; 109 are unlabeled in the original data.

Mapped shapes
190
Named labels
76
Geometry points
24,207
Data source
Historical Basemaps borders

Interactive world map for 400 BC

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123,000 BC2,023 CE

Named in the source

States, realms, and regions mapped in 400 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
76
Unlabeled shapes
109
  • Achaemenid Empire
  • Adena Culture
  • Ainu
  • Amazon hunter-gatherers
  • Andean hunter-gatherers
  • Arctic marine mammal hunters
  • Australian aboriginal hunter-gatherers
  • Austro-Asiatic rice farmers
  • Austronesians
  • Bell-shaped burials culture
  • Blemmyes
  • Boii
  • Brushed Pottery culture
  • Caribbean hunter-gatherers
  • Carthaginian Empire
  • Celltic Hallsatt culture
  • Celts
  • Chavin
  • Chorrera
  • Curonians
  • Desert hunter-gatherers
  • Donghu tribes
  • Eastern Masurian culture
  • Eastern North Amercian hunter-gatherers
  • Ethiopian highland farmers
  • Etrurians
  • Finno-Ugric taiga hunter-gatherers
  • Germanic tribes
  • Glades Culture
  • Gojoseon
  • Greek city-states
  • Greek colonies
  • Guanches
  • Hindu kingdoms
  • Khoiasan
  • Kush
  • Late Jomon culture
  • Magadha
  • Maize farmers
  • Manioc farmers
  • Milograd culture
  • North American Pacifi foraging, hunting and fishing peoples
  • Olmec
  • Paleo-Inuit
  • Paleo-Siberian hunter-gatherers
  • Pampas cultures
  • Papuan neolithic farmers
  • Paracas
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  • Patagonian shellfish and marine mammal hunters
  • Plain bison hunters
  • Plain-Pottery culture
  • Plateau fichers and hunter gatherers
  • Pomeranian culture
  • Proto-Altaic pastoralists
  • Proto-Thai cultures
  • Proto-Tibetan cultures
  • Roman Republic
  • Saami
  • Sabini
  • Saharan Pastoral Nomads
  • Sambian-Nothangian culture
  • Samnites
  • Savanna hunter-gatherers
  • Scythians
  • Shellfish gatherers
  • Simhala
  • Subarctic forest hunter-gatherers
  • Tasmanian hunter-gatherers
  • Wankarani
  • West African cereal farmers
  • Western Masurian culture
  • Xiongnu
  • Yayoi
  • Zapotec
  • Zhangzhung Kingdom
  • Zhou states

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
190
Unlabeled source geometries
109

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.