Central Asia in 1720
This map shows the 16 states and peoples the data has for Central Asia 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 Central Asia in 1720
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Kazakh Khanate
- Dzungar Khanate
- Tsardom of Russia
- Safavid Dynasty
- Qing Dynasty
- Mughal Empire
- Khanate of Bukhara
- Tibet
- Khanate of Khiva
- Khanate of Kokand
- Kalmyk Khanate
- Hotaki Dynasty
- Ottoman Empire
- Kingdom of Kakheti
- Kingdom of Georgia
- Astrakhan Khanate
New on the map since 1695
Qing Dynasty · Khanate of Kokand · Hotaki Dynasty · Kingdom of Kakheti · Kingdom of Georgia
Gone from the map by 1745
Tsardom of Russia · Safavid Dynasty · Hotaki Dynasty
Animated maps of this time
Central Asia in other years
Other regions in 1720
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.