Africa in 1650
This map shows the 19 states and peoples the data has for Africa in that year.
Watch these borders move
Play the changes on an animated map, in your browser. Free, no account needed.
States and peoples in Africa in 1650
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Ottoman Empire
- Safavid Dynasty
- Funj Sultanate
- Ethiopian Empire
- Saadi Sultanate
- Bornu Empire
- Sultanate of Darfur
- Wadai Empire
- Qasimids
- Kingdom of Kongo
- Kingdom of Spain
- Portuguese Empire
- Kingdom of Portugal
- Spanish Empire
- Dutch Republic
- Oyo Empire
- New France
- Republic of Venice
- English Colonial Empire
New on the map since 1625
Wadai Empire · Qasimids · Kingdom of Spain · Portuguese Empire · Kingdom of Portugal · New France · English Colonial Empire
Gone from the map by 1675
Kingdom of Kongo · Dutch Republic
Animated maps of this time
Africa in other years
Other regions in 1650
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.