South Asia in 1690
This map shows the 23 states and peoples the data has for South Asia in that year.
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States and peoples in South Asia in 1690
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Mughal Empire
- Tibet
- Safavid Dynasty
- First Toungoo Empire
- Dzungar Khanate
- Tümed
- Gorkha Kingdom
- Khanate of Bukhara
- Kingdom of Mysore
- Kingdom of Mrauk U
- Nayaks of Madurai
- Kingdom of Bhutan
- Dutch Ceylon
- Maratha Empire
- Dutch Republic
- Thanjavur Maratha Kingdom
- Sultanate of Aceh
- Portuguese Colonies
- Qing Dynasty
- English Colonial Empire
- Ayutthaya Kingdom
- Kathmandu
- French India
New on the map since 1665
Dzungar Khanate · Dutch Ceylon · Maratha Empire · Thanjavur Maratha Kingdom · French India
Gone from the map by 1715
Tümed · Maratha Empire
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Other regions in 1690
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.