Historical world map · 800
World map in 800
A medieval reconstruction of kingdoms, empires, and overlapping regional authority. This sourced reconstruction contains 225 mapped geometries. 117 carry usable source labels; 103 are unlabeled in the original data.
- Mapped shapes
- 225
- Named labels
- 117
- Geometry points
- 26,086
- Data source
- Historical Basemaps borders
Interactive world map for 800
Named in the source
States, realms, and regions mapped in 800
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
- 117
- Unlabeled shapes
- 103
- Abbasid Caliphate
- Aghlabid Emirate
- Ainu
- Alwa
- Amazon hunter-gatherers
- Anasazi
- Andean hunter-gatherers
- Arawaks
- Arctic marine mammal hunters
- Asturias
- Athabaskan
- Australian aboriginal hunter-gatherers
- Avars
- Axum
- Baltic tribes
- Bantou
- Bashkirs
- Beothuk
- Britany
- Bulgars
- Byzantine Empire
- Caloosahatchee cultureure
- Caribbean hunter-gatherers
- Carolingian Empire
- Celtic kingdoms
- Champa
- Chauhans
- Chen-La
- Ciboney
- Cyprus
- Czechs
- Danes
- Desert hunter-gatherers
- Dorset
- Dvaravati
- Eastern North Amercian hunter-gatherers
- Emirate of Córdoba
- Essex
- Ests
- Finno-Ugric taiga hunter-gatherers
- Finns
- Ghana
- Guanches
- Gurjara Pratihara
- Hainan
- Hindu states
- Huari Empire
- Idrisid Caliphate
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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
- 225
- Unlabeled source geometries
- 103
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.