The world in 1740
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 1740
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Russian Empire
- Qing Dynasty
- Spanish Empire
- Ottoman Empire
- Afsharid Iran
- Kazakh Khanate
- Mughal Empire
- Dzungar Khanate
- Swedish Empire
- Portuguese Empire
- Tibet
- Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Denmark-Norway
- Habsburg Monarchy
- British Colonial Empire
- Kingdom of Spain
- Kingdom of France
- Funj Sultanate
- Ethiopian Empire
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- First Toungoo Empire
- Morocco
- Khanate of Bukhara
- Nawabs of Bengal
- Ayutthaya Kingdom
- Tokugawa Shogunate
- Bornu Empire
- Holy Roman Empire Minor States
- Sultanate of Darfur
- Jesuit Reducciones
- Wadai Empire
- New France
- Joseon
- Hyderabad State
- Regency of Algiers
- Kalmyk Khanate
- Dutch Republic
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Maratha Empire
- Astrakhan Khanate
- Khmer Empire
- Crimean Khanate
- Vientiane
- Zaporozhian Cossacks
- Kingdom of Luang Phrabang
- Gorkha Kingdom
- Khanate of Khiva
- Sultanate of Johor
- Qasimids
- Sloboda Ukraine
- Carnatic Sultanate
- Yarubid dynasty
- Principality of Moldavia
- Kingdom of Portugal
- Trịnh lords
- Nawab of Awadh
- Khanate of Kokand
- Kingdom of Lunda
- Karamanli Dynasty
- Haudenosaunee
- Beylik of Tunis
- Kingdom of Sardinia
- Kingdom of Mysore
- Nguyễn lords
- Cambodia
- Ashanti Empire
- Sultanate of Palembang
- Principality of Wallachia
- Duchy of Bavaria
- Republic of Venice
- Swiss Confederation
- Dutch Cape Coast
- Kingdom of Mrauk U
- Papal States
- Sultanate of Brunei
- Sultanate of Malacca
- Sultanate of Banten
- Lan Na
- Mataram Sultanate
- Oyo Empire
- Electorate of Hanover
- Duchy of Courland
- Kingdom of Bhutan
- Kingdom of Champasak
- Dutch Ceylon
- Sultanate of Sulu
- New Netherland
- Sultanate of Aceh
- Sultanate of Banjar
- Sultanate of Jambi
- Greenland
- Bamana Empire
- Portuguese Colonies
- Sultanate of Perak
- Kingdom of Bulungan
- Republic of Genoa
- Kingdom of Imereti
- Blambangan Kingdom
- Sultanate of Terengganu
- Thanjavur Maratha Kingdom
- Principality of Abkhazia
- Sultanate of Kedah
- Sultanate of Bima
- Sultanate of Sukadana
- Sultanate of Kutai Kartanegara
- French India
- Principality of Mingrelia
- Bali
- Principality of Guria
- Sultanate of Sambas
- Principality of Svaneti
- Đại Việt
- Comtat Venaissin
- Republic of Ragusa
- Sultanate of Bone
- Sultanate of Mempawah
- Danish India
- English Colonial Empire
- Saadi Sultanate
- Kathmandu
- Principality of Monaco
- County of Urgell
- Sultanate of Maguindanao
- Principality of Liechtenstein
New on the map since 1715
Russian Empire · Afsharid Iran · Nawabs of Bengal · Hyderabad State · Maratha Empire · Nawab of Awadh · Kingdom of Sardinia · Lan Na · Duchy of Courland · Greenland · Kingdom of Bulungan · Sultanate of Terengganu · Sultanate of Kutai Kartanegara · Principality of Svaneti · Principality of Liechtenstein
Gone from the map by 1765
Afsharid Iran · Dzungar Khanate · First Toungoo Empire · Nawabs of Bengal · Yarubid dynasty · Lan Na · Mataram Sultanate · Bamana Empire · Kingdom of Bulungan · Blambangan Kingdom · Saadi Sultanate · Kathmandu
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Other regions in 1740
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.