South Asia in 1450
This map shows the 22 states and peoples the data has for South Asia in that year.
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States and peoples in South Asia in 1450
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Timurid Empire
- Tibet
- Vijayanagara Empire
- Chagatai Khanate
- Bahmani Sultanate
- Sultanate of Bengal
- Ava Kingdom
- Shan States
- Kashmiri Sultanate
- Jaunpur Sultanate
- Ming Dynasty
- Sind-Samma Dynasty
- Sayyid Dynasty
- Kingdom of Mrauk U
- Hanthawaddy Kingdom
- Ceylon
- Jaffna kingdom
- Samudera Pasai Sultanate
- Majapahit
- Lan Na Kingdom
- Ayutthaya Kingdom
- Kathmandu
New on the map since 1400
Sayyid Dynasty · Kingdom of Mrauk U
Gone from the map by 1500
Chagatai Khanate · Bahmani Sultanate · Jaunpur Sultanate · Sayyid Dynasty · Majapahit
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Other regions in 1450
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.