The Americas in 1730
This map shows the 9 states and peoples the data has for The Americas in that year.
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States and peoples in the Americas in 1730
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Spanish Empire
- Portuguese Empire
- British Colonial Empire
- Jesuit Reducciones
- New France
- Haudenosaunee
- New Netherland
- Kingdom of France
- Dutch Republic
New on the map since 1705
British Colonial Empire · Dutch Republic
Gone from the map by 1755
Dutch Republic
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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.