Middle East & North Africa in 1840
This map shows the 42 states and peoples the data has for Middle East & North Africa in that year.
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States and peoples in Middle East & North Africa in 1840
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Muhammad Ali dynasty
- Qajar Dynasty
- Ottoman Empire
- Ottoman Tripolitania
- Khanate of Khiva
- Emirate of Nejd
- Kingdom of Spain
- Morocco
- Durrani Dynasty
- Russian Empire
- Sokoto Caliphate
- Sultanate of Darfur
- Regency of Algiers
- Wadai Empire
- Sultanate of Oman
- Bornu Empire
- British Empire
- Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
- Ethiopian Empire
- Kingdom of Portugal
- Beylik of Tunis
- Massina Empire
- Imamate of Yemen
- Emirate of Jabal Shammar
- Trucial States
- Bahrain
- First Hellenic Republic
- French Algiers
- Caucasian Imamate
- Emirate of Bukhara
- Kingdom of Sardinia
- Bourbon Kingdom of France
- Papal States
- Qatar Dynasty
- Austrian Empire
- Spanish Empire
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Kuwait
- British Cape Colony
- Kazakh Khanate
- House of Khalifa
- Principality of Andorra
New on the map since 1815
Ottoman Tripolitania · Emirate of Nejd · Durrani Dynasty · British Empire · Massina Empire · Emirate of Jabal Shammar · Trucial States · Bahrain · First Hellenic Republic · French Algiers · Caucasian Imamate · Qatar Dynasty
Gone from the map by 1865
Durrani Dynasty · Regency of Algiers · British Empire · Kingdom of the Two Sicilies · Massina Empire · Emirate of Jabal Shammar · Bahrain · French Algiers · Caucasian Imamate · Kingdom of Sardinia · Bourbon Kingdom of France · Kazakh Khanate
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Middle East & North Africa in other years
Other regions in 1840
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.