Map of South Asia in 1500
For 1500, 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: 46 names within South 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.
| Name | Drawn area in view (km²) |
|---|---|
| Tibet | 1,660,000 |
| Timurid Empire | 1,060,000 |
| Vijayanagara Empire | 531,000 |
| Islamic states | 487,000 |
| Delhi Sultanate | 442,000 |
| Lodi Dynasty | 442,000 |
| Rajastan | 430,000 |
| Sultanate of Delhi | 355,000 |
| Sultanate of Bengal | 333,000 |
| Ava Kingdom | 174,000 |
| Shan States | 172,000 |
| Moghulistan | 163,000 |
| Kashmiri Sultanate | 152,000 |
| Bengal | 148,000 |
| Burmese kingdoms | 140,000 |
| Sind-Samma Dynasty | 123,000 |
| Bijapur Sultanate | 119,000 |
| Chagatai Khanate | 111,000 |
| Kapisa | 108,000 |
| Kingdom of Mrauk U | 85,100 |
| Ahmadnagar | 84,100 |
| Berar Sultanate | 80,300 |
| Orissa | 74,900 |
| Ahmadnagar Sultanate | 74,100 |
| Mongol Khanate | 69,800 |
| Hanthawaddy Kingdom | 67,400 |
| Bidar Sultanate | 63,900 |
| Ceylon | 62,800 |
| Timurid Emirates | 30,400 |
| Arakan | 24,000 |
| Aq Qoyunlu | 21,300 |
| Prome Kingdom | 19,000 |
| Jaffna kingdom | 11,900 |
| Samudera Pasai Sultanate | 6,180 |
| Pegu | 4,240 |
| Lan Na Kingdom | 3,840 |
| Ming Dynasty | 3,840 |
| Aceh | 3,210 |
| Ayutthaya Kingdom | 3,070 |
| Kathmandu | 664 |
| Malaysian Islamic states (a description by the source, not a name) | 307 |
| Ayutthaya | 148 |
| Vijayanagara | 146 |
| Emirate of the White Sheep Turks | 90.8 |
| Bidar | 61.3 |
| Sinhalese kingdoms (a description by the source, not a name) | 49.8 |
What changed since 1492
Now drawn
Islamic states
No longer drawn
Gujarat, Berar, Gondwana, Punjab, Nepal, Sind, Kazakh Khanate
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1500 Map of Europe · 1500 Map of the Middle East · 1500 Map of Africa · 1500 Map of East Asia · 1500 Map of Southeast Asia · 1500 Map of Central Asia · 1500 Map of North America · 1500 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1500 Map of South America · 1500 Map of Oceania · 1500
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 60°E–98°E, 5°N–37°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.