East Asia in 1648
1648 is the year of the Peace of Westphalia. This map shows the 19 states and peoples the data has for East Asia in that year.
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States and peoples in East Asia in 1648
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Qing Dynasty
- Golden Horde
- Southern Ming
- First Toungoo Empire
- Tibet
- Tümed
- Tokugawa Shogunate
- Lan Xang
- Tsardom of Russia
- Joseon
- Khoshut Khanate
- Ayutthaya Kingdom
- Trịnh lords
- Spanish Empire
- Dutch Republic
- Nguyễn lords
- Đại Việt
- Kingdom of Mrauk U
- Portuguese Colonies
New on the map since 1623
Qing Dynasty · Southern Ming · Tsardom of Russia · Dutch Republic · Portuguese Colonies
Gone from the map by 1673
Dutch Republic
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East Asia 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.