Historical world map · 500
World map in 500
A late-antique snapshot after the western Roman imperial system had fragmented. This sourced reconstruction contains 205 mapped geometries. 87 carry usable source labels; 113 are unlabeled in the original data.
- Mapped shapes
- 205
- Named labels
- 87
- Geometry points
- 26,371
- Data source
- Historical Basemaps borders
Interactive world map for 500
Named in the source
States, realms, and regions mapped in 500
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
- 87
- Unlabeled shapes
- 113
- Ainu
- Amazon hunter-gatherers
- Andean hunter-gatherers
- Anglo-Saxons
- Arctic marine mammal hunters
- Armorica
- Australian aboriginal hunter-gatherers
- Axum
- Basks
- Blemmyes
- Burgunds
- Caloosahatchee cultureure
- Caribbean hunter-gatherers
- Champa
- Cheras
- Cholas
- Copena
- Couture Complex
- Desert hunter-gatherers
- Dorset
- Eastern North Amercian hunter-gatherers
- Eastern Roman Empire
- Empire of Ghana
- Finno-Ugric taiga hunter-gatherers
- Fourche Maline Culture
- Franks
- Funan
- Goodall Focus
- Gupta Empire
- Himyarite Kingdom
- Hopewell Culture
- Jin Empire
- Kadambas
- Khoiasan
- Koguryo
- Kurykans
- Kushan Principalities
- Laurel complex
- Lavo
- Makkura
- Marksville Culture
- Maya states
- Mill Creek Culture
- Miller
- Moche
- Monte Albàn
- Nazca
- North American Pacifi foraging, hunting and fishing peoples
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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
- 205
- Unlabeled source geometries
- 113
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.