The Americas in 1812
1812 is Napoleon's empire at its height. This map shows the 16 states and peoples the data has for The Americas in that year.
Watch these borders move
Play the changes on an animated map, in your browser. Free, no account needed.
States and peoples in the Americas in 1812
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Spanish Empire
- Portuguese Empire
- Río de la Plata
- United States of America
- British Colonial Empire
- Paraguay
- New Granada
- Mexicans
- Republic of Chile
- Greenland
- Guayaquil Junta
- Russian Empire
- British Empire
- Empire of Haiti
- Kingdom of Hawaï'i
- First French colonial empire
New on the map since 1787
Río de la Plata · Paraguay · New Granada · Mexicans · Republic of Chile · Guayaquil Junta · British Empire · Empire of Haiti · Kingdom of Hawaï'i · First French colonial empire
Gone from the map by 1837
Portuguese Empire · Río de la Plata · New Granada · Mexicans · Guayaquil Junta · British Empire · First French colonial empire
Animated maps of this time
The Americas in other years
Other regions in 1812
The outlines are coarse and follow the Cliopatria dataset: borders before modern surveys are estimates, and a blank area means the data has no state on record there, not that nobody lived there. A state that changed hands during the year can appear together with its successor.