CHRONIA

An atlas of the world's states and peoples from 3400 BC to today. Move the year at the foot of the page, and click a state or people to read about it.

To redraw history instead, try UCHRONIA.

Keys

← →: Previous or next change on the map
Shift ← →: Back or forward a month (by year before 1800 CE)
P: Play or pause
Shift P: Play at double speed
O: Play backwards or pause
Shift O: Play backwards at double speed
M: Switch between the globe and the flat map
+ −: Zoom in or out
/: Search
Esc: Close

Sources: historical-basemaps (A. Ourednik), Cliopatria (Seshat Global History Databank), CShapes 2.0 (ETH Zürich and Universität Konstanz), GeoNames, Reba, Reitsma, and Seto (cities through time), J. W. Hanson (Roman cities), the Newberry Library's Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (US states and territories), Statistics Netherlands (the polders), Wikipedia's town maps of Syria and Ukraine, and Israel and Palestine, OCVED, the Coast Survey's sketches of the rebellion, and the Army's American Military History (zones of control), Natural Earth, Terrain Tiles, and Wikipedia. All credits and licences

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