Historical world map · 600

World map in 600

A medieval reconstruction of kingdoms, empires, and overlapping regional authority. This sourced reconstruction contains 204 mapped geometries. 83 carry usable source labels; 116 are unlabeled in the original data.

Mapped shapes
204
Named labels
83
Geometry points
30,795
Data source
Historical Basemaps borders

Interactive world map for 600

Primary view
600 CE
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600 CE
123,000 BC2,023 CE

Named in the source

States, realms, and regions mapped in 600

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
83
Unlabeled shapes
116
  • Ainu
  • Alwa
  • Amazon hunter-gatherers
  • Andean hunter-gatherers
  • Arakan
  • Arctic marine mammal hunters
  • Australian aboriginal hunter-gatherers
  • Avars
  • Axum
  • Blemmyes
  • Broërec
  • Bulgars
  • Caloosahatchee cultureure
  • Cantia
  • Caribbean hunter-gatherers
  • Chalukyas
  • Champa
  • Chauhans
  • Chen-La
  • Danes
  • Desert hunter-gatherers
  • Dumnonia
  • Dvaravati
  • Eastern North Amercian hunter-gatherers
  • Eastern Roman Empire
  • Empire of Ghana
  • Finno-Ugric taiga hunter-gatherers
  • Frankish Kingdom
  • Frisians
  • Funan
  • Göktürks
  • Guta
  • Hejaz
  • Hindu kingdoms
  • Huari Empire
  • Kamarupa
  • Kanauj
  • Khazars
  • Khoiasan
  • Koguryo
  • Lombard principalities
  • Makkura
  • Mataram
  • Maya states
  • Mazun
  • minor states under Indian influence
  • Moche
  • Monte Alb?n
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  • Neustria
  • Nobatia
  • North American Pacifi foraging, hunting and fishing peoples
  • Ostrogoths
  • Paekche
  • Paleo-Siberian hunter-gatherers
  • Pallavas
  • Pampas cultures
  • Patagonian shellfish and marine mammal hunters
  • Plain bison hunters
  • Plateau fichers and hunter gatherers
  • Saami
  • Sasanian dependencies
  • Sasanian Empire
  • Savanna hunter-gatherers
  • Saxons
  • Shaskanka
  • Shellfish gatherers
  • Silla
  • Simhala
  • Slavs
  • Subarctic forest hunter-gatherers
  • Sui Empire
  • Swedes
  • Tasmanian hunter-gatherers
  • Teotihuacàn
  • Thai Kingdoms
  • Tiahuanaco Empire
  • Tuʻi Tonga Empire
  • Vasconia
  • Vazimba
  • Veracruz civilization
  • Visigothic Kingdom
  • West African cereal farmers
  • 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
204
Unlabeled source geometries
116

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.