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The Americas in 1650

This map shows the 10 states and peoples the data has for The Americas in that year.

Map of the Americas in 1650 with 10 states and peoples
Borders: Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (CC BY 4.0). Coarse outlines: check and adjust them for your story.

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States and peoples in the Americas in 1650

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 1625

Portuguese Empire · New Sweden · Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Gone from the map by 1675

New Sweden · Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

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The Americas 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.