Historical world map · 5,000 BC

World map in 5,000 BC

An ancient-world reconstruction where authority often cannot be reduced to a surveyed modern border. This sourced reconstruction contains 279 mapped geometries. 28 carry usable source labels; 250 are unlabeled in the original data.

Mapped shapes
279
Named labels
28
Geometry points
127,187
Data source
Historical Basemaps borders

Interactive world map for 5,000 BC

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123,000 BC2,023 CE

Named in the source

Cultures, peoples, and polities mapped in 5,000 BC

Usable source labels mix archaeological cultures, peoples, broad cultural regions, and early polities. They are reproduced as dataset labels, not converted into modern-country categories.

Named labels
28
Unlabeled shapes
250
  • Aboriginal Tasmanians
  • Aboriginal tribes
  • Ainu
  • Amuq D
  • Austronesians
  • Bantu
  • Dapenkeng culture
  • Dimini
  • Dravidians
  • Early combware
  • Elam
  • Funnel-Beaker
  • Ghassul
  • Hurrian Kingdoms
  • Jōmon
  • Kelteminar
  • Kelteminar culture
  • Khoiasan
  • La Almagra culture
  • Namazga
  • Naquada I
  • Narva
  • Nemay
  • Norte Chico
  • Stentinello culture
  • Ubaid
  • Valdivia
  • Volga-Kamm

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
279
Unlabeled source geometries
250

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.