South Asia in 1640
This map shows the 24 states and peoples the data has for South Asia in that year.
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States and peoples in South Asia in 1640
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Mughal Empire
- Tibet
- Safavid Dynasty
- First Toungoo Empire
- Eastern Moghulistan
- Bijapur Sultanate
- Golconda Sultanate
- Tümed
- Gorkha Kingdom
- Khanate of Bukhara
- Kingdom of Mrauk U
- Ahmadnagar Sultanate
- Nayaks of Madurai
- Kingdom of Bhutan
- Portuguese Colonies
- Ming Dynasty
- Portuguese Ceylon
- Kingdom of Mysore
- Nayaks of Thanjavur
- Sultanate of Aceh
- Dutch Republic
- Ayutthaya Kingdom
- Kathmandu
- English Colonial Empire
New on the map since 1615
Kingdom of Bhutan · English Colonial Empire
Gone from the map by 1665
Ahmadnagar Sultanate · Ming Dynasty
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Other regions in 1640
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.