South Asia in 1492
1492 is the year Columbus reached the Americas. This map shows the 28 states and peoples the data has for South Asia in that year.
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States and peoples in South Asia in 1492
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Tibet
- Timurid Empire
- Vijayanagara Empire
- Moghulistan
- Lodi Dynasty
- Sultanate of Bengal
- Shan States
- Ava Kingdom
- Kashmiri Sultanate
- Mongol Khanate
- Kapisa
- Sind-Samma Dynasty
- Bijapur Sultanate
- Kingdom of Mrauk U
- Berar Sultanate
- Ahmadnagar Sultanate
- Bidar Sultanate
- Hanthawaddy Kingdom
- Ceylon
- Kazakh Khanate
- Aq Qoyunlu
- Prome Kingdom
- Jaffna kingdom
- Samudera Pasai Sultanate
- Ming Dynasty
- Lan Na Kingdom
- Ayutthaya Kingdom
- Kathmandu
New on the map since 1442
Moghulistan · Lodi Dynasty · Mongol Khanate · Kapisa · Bijapur Sultanate · Berar Sultanate · Ahmadnagar Sultanate · Bidar Sultanate · Kazakh Khanate · Aq Qoyunlu · Prome Kingdom
Gone from the map by 1542
Timurid Empire · Moghulistan · Lodi Dynasty · Sultanate of Bengal · Ava Kingdom · Kapisa · Sind-Samma Dynasty · Ceylon · Kazakh Khanate · Aq Qoyunlu · Samudera Pasai Sultanate
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South Asia in other years
Other regions in 1492
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.