The world in 1620
This map shows the 107 states and peoples the data has for the world in that year.
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States and peoples in the world in 1620
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Tsardom of Russia
- Spanish Empire
- Golden Horde
- Ottoman Empire
- Ming Dynasty
- Kazakh Khanate
- Mughal Empire
- Safavid Dynasty
- Tibet
- Swedish Empire
- Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Denmark-Norway
- Eastern Moghulistan
- Iberian Union
- Mongol Khanate
- Kingdom of France
- Funj Sultanate
- First Toungoo Empire
- Khanate of Bukhara
- Ethiopian Empire
- Kingdom of England
- Oirat Confederation
- Tümed
- Holy Roman Empire Minor States
- Saadi Sultanate
- Lan Xang
- Khoshut Khanate
- Ayutthaya Kingdom
- Tokugawa Shogunate
- Bornu Empire
- Habsburg Monarchy
- Sultanate of Darfur
- Bijapur Sultanate
- Joseon
- Khmer Empire
- Jesuit Reducciones
- Holy Roman Empire
- Sultanate of Johor
- Western Moghulistan
- Golconda Sultanate
- Gorkha Kingdom
- Khanate of Khiva
- Small Horde
- Principality of Transylvania
- Brandenburg-Prussia
- Kingdom of Kongo
- Principality of Moldavia
- Trịnh lords
- Principality of Wallachia
- Sultanate of Brunei
- Haudenosaunee
- Don Cossacks
- Crimean Khanate
- Nguyễn lords
- Sultanate of Aceh
- Kingdom of Mrauk U
- Sultanate of Banten
- Republic of Venice
- Sultanate of Palembang
- Later Jin Dynasty
- Swiss Confederation
- Sultanate of Malacca
- Papal States
- Ahmadnagar Sultanate
- House of Savoy
- Mataram Sultanate
- Dutch Republic
- Duchy of Bavaria
- Nayaks of Madurai
- Electorate of Saxony
- Portuguese Ceylon
- Sultanate of Banjar
- Itza Mayans
- Sultanate of Cirebon
- Republic of Florence
- Duchy of Lorraine
- Sultanate of Perak
- Kingdom of Kartli
- Patani Kingdom
- Republic of Genoa
- Kingdom of Mysore
- Principality of Mingrelia
- Balinese Kingdom
- New France
- Kingdom of Imereti
- Blambangan Kingdom
- Nayaks of Thanjavur
- Sultanate of Kedah
- Đại Việt
- English Colonial Empire
- Portuguese Empire
- Principality of Abkhazia
- Sultanate of Sukadana
- Chámpa
- Principality of Guria
- Oyo Empire
- Sultanate of Sambas
- Comtat Venaissin
- Sultanate of Bone
- Republic of Ragusa
- Sultanate of Sulu
- Sultanate of Mempawah
- Sultanate of Gowa
- Portuguese Colonies
- Kathmandu
- County of Urgell
- Sultanate of Maguindanao
New on the map since 1595
Swedish Empire · Oirat Confederation · Tokugawa Shogunate · Sultanate of Darfur · Holy Roman Empire · Brandenburg-Prussia · Later Jin Dynasty · Kingdom of Kartli · Principality of Mingrelia · New France · Kingdom of Imereti · English Colonial Empire · Portuguese Empire · Principality of Abkhazia · Sultanate of Sukadana · Principality of Guria · Oyo Empire · Sultanate of Sambas · Sultanate of Mempawah
Gone from the map by 1645
Ming Dynasty · Iberian Union · Mongol Khanate · Holy Roman Empire · Western Moghulistan · Don Cossacks · Later Jin Dynasty · Duchy of Lorraine
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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.