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. 92 have source labels representing 87 distinct names; 113 have no usable source label.

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Mapped geometries: 205
Labeled geometries: 92
Distinct labels: 87
Data source: Historical Basemaps borders

Historical world map reconstruction showing mapped regions in 500 — Static map preview for 500
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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.

Distinct named labels: 87
Unlabeled geometries: 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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Ostrogoths
Paekche
Paleo-Siberian hunter-gatherers
Pallavas
Pampas cultures
Pandyas
Patagonian shellfish and marine mammal hunters
Plain bison hunters
Plateau fichers and hunter gatherers
Point Peninsula
Porter
Poverty point culture
Ruanruan
Saami
Sasanian Empire
Saugeen Complex
Savanna hunter-gatherers
Saxons
Shellfish gatherers
Silla
Simhala
Subarctic forest hunter-gatherers
Sveves
Swedes
Swift Creek Culture
Tasmanian hunter-gatherers
Teotihuacàn
Toba Wei
Tuʻi Tonga Empire
Turingians
Vakataka
Vandals
Veracruz civilization
Vishnu-Kundins
Visigoths
West African cereal farmers
Western Gangas
Western Roman Empire
Yamato

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

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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Historical boundary snapshots for countries and cultural regions, used through 2010. Coverage: 53 available snapshots from prehistory through 2010

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Reuse terms: GPL-3.0 repository license. Check the original project for full attribution and reuse requirements.

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