The world in 1530
This map shows the 124 states and peoples the data has for the world in that year.
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States and peoples in the world in 1530
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Mongol Khanate
- Khanate of Sibir
- Grand Principality of Moscow
- Ming Dynasty
- Kazakh Khanate
- Ottoman Empire
- Safavid Dynasty
- Inca Empire
- Tibet
- Kingdom of Sweden
- Mughal Empire
- Denmark-Norway
- House of Jagiellon
- Eastern Moghulistan
- Kingdom of Spain
- Spanish Empire
- Nogai Horde
- Songhai Empire
- Funj Sultanate
- Kingdom of France
- Khanate of Bukhara
- Holy Roman Empire Minor States
- Wattasid dynasty
- Shan States
- Ayutthaya Kingdom
- Lan Xang
- Ethiopian Empire
- Sultanate of Bengal
- Vijayanagara Empire
- Warring States Japan
- Mali Empire
- Kingdom of Hungary
- Khanate of Kazan
- Khmer Empire
- Joseon
- Hafsid Dynasty
- Kingdom of England
- Astrakhan Khanate
- Crimean Khanate
- Bornu Empire
- Sultanate of Johor
- Livonian Conference
- Sultanate of Brunei
- Kingdom of Portugal
- Đại Việt
- Western Moghulistan
- Kashmiri Sultanate
- Later Mayan City-States
- Khanate of Khiva
- Adal Sultanate
- Bijapur Sultanate
- Zayyanid dynasty
- Kingdom of Scotland
- Habsburg Monarchy
- Kingdom of Kongo
- Principality of Moldavia
- Portuguese Empire
- Golconda Sultanate
- Principality of Wallachia
- Haudenosaunee
- Sultanate of Maguindanao
- Kingdom of Mrauk U
- Republic of Venice
- Berar Sultanate
- Eastern Hungarian Kingdom
- Ahmadnagar Sultanate
- Michoacán
- Hanthawaddy Kingdom
- Sultanate of Palembang
- Electorate of Brandenburg
- Shirvan
- First Toungoo Empire
- Duchy of Prussia
- House of Bourbon
- Papal States
- Swiss Confederation
- Electorate of Saxony
- Lan Na Kingdom
- Duchy of Bavaria
- County of Savoy
- Nayaks of Madurai
- Portuguese Ceylon
- Demak Sultanate
- Qasim Khanate
- County of Foix
- Sunda Kingdom
- Kingdom of Georgia
- Sultanate of Banjar
- Bidar Sultanate
- Kingdom of Kakheti
- Portuguese Africa
- Blambangan Kingdom
- Duchy of Lorraine
- Electorate of Trier
- Sultanate of Aceh
- Duchy of Milan
- Sultanate of Perak
- Prome Kingdom
- Republic of Genoa
- Principality of Mingrelia
- Sultanate of Malacca
- Republic of Florence
- Kingdom of Imereti
- Sultanate of Kedah
- Jaffna kingdom
- Principality of Abkhazia
- Sultanate of Cirebon
- Sultanate of Banten
- Chámpa
- Principality of Guria
- Balinese Kingdom
- Rajahnate of Cebu
- Tondo
- Comtat Venaissin
- Sultanate of Bone
- Republic of Ragusa
- Sultanate of Sulu
- Maynila
- Sultanate of Gowa
- Ashikaga Shogunate
- Namayan
- Kathmandu
- County of Urgell
- Principality of Orange
New on the map since 1505
Mughal Empire · Denmark-Norway · Eastern Moghulistan · Kingdom of Spain · Spanish Empire · Funj Sultanate · Khanate of Bukhara · Sultanate of Johor · Đại Việt · Western Moghulistan · Khanate of Khiva · Golconda Sultanate · Sultanate of Maguindanao · Eastern Hungarian Kingdom · Duchy of Prussia · Nayaks of Madurai · Portuguese Ceylon · Sultanate of Banjar · Portuguese Africa · Blambangan Kingdom · Sultanate of Aceh · Duchy of Milan · Sultanate of Perak · Sultanate of Banten · Balinese Kingdom · Sultanate of Bone · Maynila · Sultanate of Gowa
Gone from the map by 1555
Grand Principality of Moscow · Sultanate of Bengal · Kingdom of Hungary · Khanate of Kazan · Later Mayan City-States · Adal Sultanate · Michoacán · Hanthawaddy Kingdom · Shirvan · County of Savoy · Demak Sultanate · Qasim Khanate · Duchy of Milan · Prome Kingdom
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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.