Map of Southeast 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: 37 names within Southeast Asia. The map also draws 5 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)
Malaysian Islamic states (a description by the source, not a name)1,530,000
Ming Dynasty425,000
Ayutthaya Kingdom396,000
Lan Xang377,000
Philippines229,000
Lê Dynasty191,000
Malacca176,000
Ava Kingdom174,000
Shan States139,000
Majapahit87,300
Kingdom of Mrauk U85,100
Ayutthaya83,800
Hanthawaddy Kingdom78,600
Sultanate of Palembang77,900
Sunda Kingdom54,600
Lan Na Kingdom52,700
Sultanate of Brunei50,600
Burmese kingdoms24,300
Taiwan22,000
Prome Kingdom19,000
Arakan14,200
Sultanate of Kedah13,400
Aceh12,800
Samudera Pasai Sultanate8,900
Chámpa8,200
Sultanate of Cirebon8,100
Sultanate of Malacca7,610
Demak Sultanate7,490
Rajahnate of Cebu6,810
Tondo4,870
Pegu4,240
Sultanate of Sulu1,830
Ming Chinese Empire1,300
Namayan1,050
Cambodia286
Champa186
Đại Việt127

What changed since 1492

Now drawn

Rajahnate of Cebu, Ming Chinese Empire

No longer drawn

Ming Empire

The same date elsewhere

World map · 1500 Map of Europe · 1500 Map of the Middle East · 1500 Map of Africa · 1500 Map of South Asia · 1500 Map of East 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 92°E–141°E, 11°S–24°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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