Map of South Asia, 1840–1842

On 1 July of every year from 1840 to 1842, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 32 names within South Asia. The borders come from OpenHistoricalMap (day by day), then Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (by year), then historical-basemaps — each drawn only where the records before it are silent.

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)
Company Raj3,110,000
Qing1,850,000
Emirate of Kabul604,000
Burma464,000
British Empire393,000
Khanate of Kalat219,000
Sikh Empire203,000
Persia184,000
Nepal148,000
Sind Sultanate143,000
Assam111,000
British Ceylon75,700
Talpur Dynasty75,100
Awadh64,500
Bhutan55,100
Khanate of Khiva48,100
Bahawalpur State44,800
Maratha Confederacy41,000
Satara state29,600
Manipur State22,400
Durrani Dynasty21,200
Dutch East Indies13,400
Sultanate of the Maldive Islands11,500
British East India Company10,600
British Colonial Empire8,020
Rattanakosin Kingdom Mandala7,780
Arakan2,440
Khanate of Kokand1,750
French India792
Portuguese India654
Omani Empire529
Emirate of Bukhara100

Open the map on 1 July of

1840 1841 1842

What changed since 1834–1839

Now drawn

Durrani Dynasty

No longer drawn

Emirate of Afghanistan

The same date elsewhere

World map · 1840 Map of Europe · 1839–1840 Map of the Middle East · 1840–1845 Map of Africa · 1840 Map of East Asia · 1840 Map of Southeast Asia · 1840 Map of Central Asia · 1840–1845 Map of North America · 1840 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1840 Map of South America · 1840 Map of Oceania · 1840

Source and method

Borders and names: OpenHistoricalMap (openhistoricalmap.org) · CC0 1.0 + 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.

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