North America in 1840
This map shows the 21 states and peoples the data has for North America in that year.
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States and peoples in North America in 1840
Largest first, by area on this map.
- United States of America
- Centralist Mexico
- Federated Republic of Mexico
- British Colonial Empire
- Venezuela
- Republic of Texas
- Russian Empire
- Republic of the Rio Grande
- Republic of New Granada
- Republic of Nicaragua
- Spanish Empire
- Honduras
- Greenland
- Guatemala
- Empire of Haiti
- Republic of Costa Rica
- Los Altos
- Republic of El Salvador
- Kingdom of Hawaï'i
- Bourbon Kingdom of France
- Netherlands Antilles
New on the map since 1815
Centralist Mexico · Federated Republic of Mexico · Venezuela · Republic of Texas · Republic of the Rio Grande · Republic of New Granada · Republic of Nicaragua · Honduras · Guatemala · Republic of Costa Rica · Los Altos · Republic of El Salvador
Gone from the map by 1865
Centralist Mexico · Republic of Texas · Republic of the Rio Grande · Republic of New Granada · Los Altos · Bourbon Kingdom of France
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North America in other years
Other regions in 1840
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.