ShAPE of history

Shape of History is a public history project about how we made the world’s borders- physical, social, and institutional

In addition to this website full of interesting maps and reference resources, you’ll soon be able to view a blog, videos, and more.

There are 12 world regions on our planet.

I’ll work on filling in pages for each region with useful information, maps, and links over the coming years. As my expertise is US history, North America will probably fill up in the near future, but rest assured, we will make it to the ends of the Earth.

North America

Greenland Canada United-States

South America

Columbia Venezuela Guyana Suriname French-Guiana Brazil Ecuador Peru Bolivia Paraguay Uruguay Chile Argentina

Blank map of the Americas (Central America and the Caribbean highlighted)

Mexico Guatemala Honduras El-Salvador Nicaragua Costa Rica Panama

Cuba Jamaica Haiti Dominican-Republic Puerto-Rico The-Bahamas Virgin-Islands

Antigua Montserrat Guadalupe Dominica Martinique St.-Lucia Barbados St.-Vincent Grenada Trinidad-and-Tobago Netherlands-Anitiles

europe

Ireland United-Kingdom Norway Sweden Finland Portugal Spain France Belgium The-Netherlands-(Holland) Denmark Germany Poland Belarus Lithuania Latvia Estonia Switzerland Italy Czech-Republic Slovakia Ukraine Austria Hungary Romania Moldova Slovenia Croatia Bosnia Serbia Montenegro Albania Bulgaria North-Macedonia Greece

russia

Russia Georgia Armenia Azerbaijan

North Africa/ Southwest Asia (Middle East)

Mauritania Western-Sahara Morroco Algeria Tunisia Libya Egypt Mali Niger Chad Sudan South-Sudan Eritrea

Yemen Oman United-Arab-Emirates Qatar Bahrain Saudi Arabia Jordan Israel Palestine Lebanon Syria Turkey Iraq Kuwait Iran

Afghanistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan Tajikistan Kyrgystan Kazakhstan

Subsaharan Africa

Blank map of Africa (color coded North and Southern A.)

Cape-Verde Senegal Gambia Guinea-Bissau Guinea Sierra-Leone Liberia

Côte-d’Ivoire Burkina-Faso Ghana Togo Benin Nigeria Cameroon Central-African-Republic Ethiopia Somalia

São-Tomé & Principe Equatorial-Guinea Gabon Congo Democratic-Republic-of-Congo Uganda Kenya Rwanda Burundi Tanzania

Angola Zambia Malawi Moçambique Madagascar Namibia Botswana Zimbabwe Swaziland Lesotho South Africa

South Asia

Pakistan Nepal Bhutan India Bangladesh Sri-Lanka The-Maldives

East asia

Mongolia North-Korea South-Korea Japan Taiwan China Tibet Xinjiang

Southeast Asia

Myanmar Laos Vietnam Thailand Cambodia Malaysia Indonesia East-Timor The-Philippines

Pacific Realm

Australia New-Zealand