MAPS OF HISTORY · DECOLONIZATION OF AFRICA · MAPS BY YEAR · December 1951The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994 · THE MAP IN DEC 1951
Map of Africa in December 1951
Libya, the first · decolonization
Africa in December 1951: Libya, the first. Since 1945, 1 territory changed status on this map: Libya.
DEC 1951 · THE DECOLONIZATION OF AFRICA, 1945–1994 These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v0.2.1: reviewed historical components · Natural Earth v5.1.2: 1:10m countries · UN: former Trust and Non-Self-Governing Territories · UN: British Togoland administration and 1956 termination · UN: trust territories and their agreements
Source details Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY 4.0 · Explicit record/component selection; documented nearby-date proxies, intersections and unions. Known compound-name and end-date errors excluded. Natural Earth. Public domain · Full source coordinates retained; African extraction; Egypt self-touching ring repaired with negligible area delta; explicit historical unions. United Nations; territorial successions and independence dates. Historical factual evidence; text and images not reproduced United Nations. Historical factual evidence; text and images not reproduced United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library. Historical factual evidence; text and images not reproduced The maps are reconstructed from published sources. Explicit records provide historical unions and changed colonial units; inherited outer boundaries use the closest reusable reference from the source vintage.
War hatches mark affected administrative reporting regions. They do not trace exact fronts or the extent of controlled territory. Each layer records its source selection and boundary dates.
Gold Coast and British Togoland appear as one British administrative grouping. The internal trust-territory line is omitted because the downloaded extracted boundary is noncommercial-only.
proxy: Before 1964; contemporary source outline · proxy: Natural Earth v5.1.2 contemporary reference · reconstruction: 1945–1951 using 1945 Spanish and 1956 Moroccan records · reconstruction: 1945–1958; contemporary source perimeter · reconstruction: 1945–1960; contemporary source perimeter · reconstruction: 1945–1962; contemporary source perimeter · reconstruction: 1945–1994; contemporary source perimeter · reconstruction: Before 1964; contemporary source outline · vector: 1936–1986; used through 1985 · vector: 1943–1959 source; used before 1957 · vector: 1943–1959 source; used through 1960 · vector: 1945–1957 · vector: 1945–1957 source; used 1945–1951 · vector: 1949–1952 source; reused through 1966 · vector: 1960 source; carried back to 1945 · vector: 1963–1975 source; nearby-date exterior reference for 1945–1994 · vector: 1969–1986; reused as pre-unification geographic proxy
Layer records and reconstruction methods
What changes on the map Libya Portuguese, Belgian, Spanish & Italian-ruled → Independent Africa
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