版本 11 引入了大量的历史国家边界线集合，可用于可视化许多国家和帝国的发展（及衰落）.
historicalCountryAnimate[entity_, nframes_: 100,
opts : OptionsPattern[]] := Module[
{ini, end, step, polygon, times, reducedPolygon, countries, len,
frames},
{ini, end} =
First[DateList[#]] & /@
Entity["HistoricalCountry",
entity][{EntityProperty["HistoricalCountry", "StartDate"],
EntityProperty["HistoricalCountry", "EndDate"]}];
step = Ceiling[(end - ini) / nframes];
polygon =
ParallelTable[EntityValue[Entity["HistoricalCountry", entity],
EntityProperty["HistoricalCountry",
"Polygon", {"Date" -> DateObject[{t}]}]], {t, ini, end, step}];
times = Table[t, {t, ini, end, step}];
reducedPolygon =
DeleteMissing[
DeleteDuplicates[Transpose[{times, polygon}],
Last[#1] == Last[#2] &], 1, 2];
countries = EntityValue[Entity["HistoricalCountry", entity],
EntityProperty["HistoricalCountry", "CurrentCountries"]];
len = Length[reducedPolygon];
frames =
ParallelTable[
GeoGraphics[{EdgeForm[Red], Blue, GeoStyling[Opacity[.07]],
reducedPolygon[[t, 2]]},
opts,
GeoProjection -> "Mercator",
ImageSize -> 500,
GeoRange -> "World",
GeoBackground -> GeoStyling["StreetMap"],
Epilog ->
Text[Framed[Style[reducedPolygon[[t, 1]], 20, Red, Bold],
Background -> White], Scaled[{.06, .955}]]
], {t, 1, len}
];
ListAnimate[frames,
AnimationRunning -> False,
AnimationRepetitions -> 1]
]
historicalCountryAnimate["RomanRepublic", 100,
GeoRange -> {{30, 50}, {-15, 40}}]
historicalCountryAnimate["MongolEmpire", 100,
GeoRange -> {{20, 70}, {20, 140}}]
