Map of Central Asia in 400 BC

For 400 BC, IntMap draws the Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (by year), then historical-basemaps — each drawn only where the records before it are silent map of that year: 7 names within Central Asia. The map also draws 3 outlines here that the source gives no name.

Names on the map

As the map labels them, largest first by the area of the outline drawn inside this view. Areas are of the drawn outline, rounded, and approximate.

NameDrawn area in view (km²)
Achaemenid Empire1,820,000
Yuezhi856,000
Scythians628,000
Proto-Tibetan cultures (a description by the source, not a name)399,000
Zhangzhung Kingdom142,000
Paleo-Siberian hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name)44,700
Hindu kingdoms (a description by the source, not a name)13.4

What changed since 500 BC

Now drawn

Yuezhi, Scythians, Proto-Tibetan cultures, Zhangzhung Kingdom, Hindu kingdoms

No longer drawn

Proto-Altaic pastoralists

The same date elsewhere

World map · 400 BC Map of Europe · 400 BC Map of the Middle East · 400 BC Map of Africa · 400 BC Map of South Asia · 400 BC Map of East Asia · 400 BC Map of Southeast Asia · 400 BC Map of North America · 400 BC Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 400 BC Map of South America · 400 BC Map of Oceania · 400 BC

Source and method

Borders and names: Cliopatria v0.2.1 (Seshat Global History Databank, github.com/Seshat-Global-History-Databank/cliopatria) · CC BY 4.0 · adapted by IntMap: simplified, BC years made astronomical, and the ground OpenHistoricalMap (1689–1885, and from 1886 where CShapes is silent) and CShapes (1886–2019) state removed on their own dates + aourednik/historical-basemaps (github.com/aourednik/historical-basemaps) · GPL-3.0 · adapted by IntMap: each sheet before 1886 less the ground OpenHistoricalMap and Cliopatria state at that sheet's year.

Listed: every name whose outline IntMap draws inside 46°E–90°E, 35°N–56°N on this date, with the name the map writes on it. The list is worked out when the site is built, from the same records and the same code the map uses, so it says what the map shows — not more. Names are the source’s own, translated where the source or IntMap’s name table has a translation.

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