The Americas in 1648
1648 is the year of the Peace of Westphalia. This map shows the 10 states and peoples the data has for The Americas in that year.
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States and peoples in the Americas in 1648
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Spanish Empire
- Portuguese Empire
- Jesuit Reducciones
- Haudenosaunee
- English Colonial Empire
- New Netherland
- New France
- Itza Mayans
- New Sweden
- Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
New on the map since 1623
Portuguese Empire · New Sweden · Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Gone from the map by 1673
New Sweden · Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
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The Americas in other years
Other regions in 1648
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.