The world in 1519
1519 is the year Charles V became Holy Roman Emperor. This map shows the 123 states and peoples the data has for the world in that year.
Watch these borders move
Play the changes on an animated map, in your browser. Free, no account needed.
States and peoples in the world in 1519
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Mongol Khanate
- Khanate of Sibir
- Grand Principality of Moscow
- Ming Dynasty
- Safavid Dynasty
- Ottoman Empire
- Kazakh Khanate
- Inca Empire
- Tibet
- Kalmar Union
- House of Jagiellon
- Eastern Moghulistan
- Kingdom of Spain
- Nogai Horde
- Khanate of Bukhara
- Kingdom of Sweden
- Songhai Empire
- Funj Sultanate
- Kingdom of France
- Vijayanagara Empire
- Holy Roman Empire Minor States
- Kingdom of Hungary
- Wattasid dynasty
- Ayutthaya Kingdom
- Ethiopian Empire
- Lan Xang
- Western Moghulistan
- Sultanate of Bengal
- Warring States Japan
- Mali Empire
- Khanate of Kazan
- Shan States
- Khmer Empire
- Joseon
- Lodi Dynasty
- Hafsid Dynasty
- Kingdom of England
- Astrakhan Khanate
- Sultanate of Malacca
- Timurid Empire
- Aztec Triple Alliance
- Crimean Khanate
- Bornu Empire
- Livonian Conference
- Sultanate of Brunei
- Kingdom of Bohemia
- Later Mayan City-States
- Lê Dynasty
- Kashmiri Sultanate
- Habsburg Monarchy
- Zayyanid dynasty
- Adal Sultanate
- Kingdom of Scotland
- Sind-Samma Dynasty
- Portuguese Empire
- Kingdom of Kongo
- Kingdom of Portugal
- Ava Kingdom
- Principality of Moldavia
- Bijapur Sultanate
- Khanate of Khiva
- Principality of Wallachia
- Haudenosaunee
- Kingdom of Mrauk U
- Republic of Venice
- Berar Sultanate
- Ahmadnagar Sultanate
- Michoacán
- Hanthawaddy Kingdom
- Sultanate of Palembang
- Electorate of Brandenburg
- Bahrani Dynasty
- Shirvan
- Teutonic Order
- First Toungoo Empire
- House of Bourbon
- Papal States
- Electorate of Saxony
- Swiss Confederation
- Lan Na Kingdom
- Golconda Sultanate
- Duchy of Bavaria
- County of Savoy
- Portuguese Ceylon
- Sunda Kingdom
- Qasim Khanate
- Demak Sultanate
- County of Foix
- Kingdom of Georgia
- Republic of Genoa
- Kingdom of Kakheti
- Portuguese Africa
- Ryazan
- Bidar Sultanate
- Blambangan Kingdom
- Duchy of Lorraine
- Electorate of Trier
- Prome Kingdom
- County of Nevers
- Principality of Mingrelia
- Republic of Florence
- Kingdom of Imereti
- Sultanate of Kedah
- Jaffna kingdom
- Principality of Abkhazia
- Sultanate of Cirebon
- Samudera Pasai Sultanate
- Chámpa
- Sultanate of Aceh
- Principality of Guria
- Balinese Kingdom
- Rajahnate of Cebu
- Tondo
- Comtat Venaissin
- Sultanate of Bone
- Republic of Ragusa
- Sultanate of Gowa
- Ryukyu Kingdom
- Ashikaga Shogunate
- Namayan
- Kathmandu
- County of Urgell
- Principality of Orange
New on the map since 1494
Safavid Dynasty · Eastern Moghulistan · Kingdom of Spain · Khanate of Bukhara · Kingdom of Sweden · Funj Sultanate · Western Moghulistan · Portuguese Empire · Khanate of Khiva · First Toungoo Empire · Golconda Sultanate · Portuguese Ceylon · Portuguese Africa · Blambangan Kingdom · Sultanate of Aceh · Balinese Kingdom · Rajahnate of Cebu · Sultanate of Bone · Sultanate of Gowa
Gone from the map by 1544
Kalmar Union · Sultanate of Bengal · Lodi Dynasty · Timurid Empire · Aztec Triple Alliance · Kingdom of Bohemia · Sind-Samma Dynasty · Ava Kingdom · Michoacán · Bahrani Dynasty · Shirvan · Teutonic Order · County of Savoy · Ryazan · County of Nevers · Samudera Pasai Sultanate · Ryukyu Kingdom
Animated maps of this time
The world in other years
Other regions in 1519
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.