World map in AD 1653 — territory by country

Frame AD 1653 — world borders from AD 1653 to AD 1658. 115 countries have territory in this frame, and the largest is Tsardom of Russia (≈ 11.52 million km²).

Countries with territory in this frame (115, largest first)

Rank	Country	Area
1	Tsardom of Russia	≈ 11.52 million km²
2	Spanish Empire	≈ 6.15 million km²
3	Qing dynasty	≈ 6.03 million km²
4	Ottoman Empire	≈ 3.52 million km²
5	Mughal Empire	≈ 2.87 million km²
6	Safavid dynasty	≈ 2.62 million km²
7	Golden Horde	≈ 2.58 million km²
8	Kazakh Khanate	≈ 2.21 million km²
9	Tibet	≈ 1.55 million km²
10	Moghulistan	≈ 937 thousand km²
11	Portuguese Empire	≈ 898 thousand km²
12	Swedish Empire	≈ 896 thousand km²
13	Oirat Confederation	≈ 839 thousand km²
14	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth	≈ 829 thousand km²
15	Spain	≈ 682 thousand km²
16	First Toungoo Empire	≈ 633 thousand km²
17	Funj Sultanate	≈ 626 thousand km²
18	Ethiopian Empire	≈ 587 thousand km²
19	Denmark–Norway	≈ 551 thousand km²
20	Kingdom of France	≈ 484 thousand km²
21	Khanate of Bukhara	≈ 428 thousand km²
22	Tumed	≈ 414 thousand km²
23	Bijapur Sultanate	≈ 396 thousand km²
24	Saadi Sultanate	≈ 385 thousand km²
25	Ayutthaya Kingdom	≈ 382 thousand km²
26	Lan Xang	≈ 376 thousand km²
27	Commonwealth of England	≈ 342 thousand km²
28	Kanem–Bornu Empire	≈ 339 thousand km²
29	Habsburg monarchy	≈ 329 thousand km²
30	Tokugawa shogunate	≈ 329 thousand km²
31	Sultanate of Darfur	≈ 294 thousand km²
32	Khoshut Khanate	≈ 292 thousand km²
33	Wadai Sultanate	≈ 280 thousand km²
34	Khmer Empire	≈ 274 thousand km²
35	Holy Roman Empire	≈ 253 thousand km²
36	Jesuit missions among the Guaraní	≈ 242 thousand km²
37	Joseon	≈ 232 thousand km²
38	Rassid dynasty	≈ 213 thousand km²
39	Johor Sultanate	≈ 207 thousand km²
40	Golconda Sultanate	≈ 204 thousand km²
41	Southern Ming	≈ 199 thousand km²
42	Kalmyk Khanate	≈ 163 thousand km²
43	Gorkha kingdom	≈ 148 thousand km²
44	Dutch Republic	≈ 144 thousand km²
45	Kingdom of Kongo	≈ 132 thousand km²
46	Astrakhan Khanate	≈ 126 thousand km²
47	Khanate of Khiva	≈ 125 thousand km²
48	Haudenosaunee	≈ 123 thousand km²
49	Sultanate of Brunei (1368–1888)	≈ 112 thousand km²
50	Principality of Transylvania (1570–1711)	≈ 112 thousand km²
51	Brandenburg–Prussia	≈ 106 thousand km²
52	Kingdom of Portugal	≈ 101 thousand km²
53	Nguyễn lords	≈ 101 thousand km²
54	Trịnh lords	≈ 96 thousand km²
55	Ya'rubids	≈ 92 thousand km²
56	Nogai Horde	≈ 83 thousand km²
57	Banten Sultanate	≈ 83 thousand km²
58	Moldavia	≈ 82 thousand km²
59	English overseas possessions	≈ 81 thousand km²
60	Kingdom of Mrauk U	≈ 77 thousand km²
61	Palembang Sultanate	≈ 75 thousand km²
62	Wallachia	≈ 74 thousand km²
63	Portuguese Empire	≈ 72 thousand km²
64	Mataram Sultanate	≈ 66 thousand km²
65	Crimean Khanate	≈ 59 thousand km²
66	Madurai Nayak dynasty	≈ 48 thousand km²
67	New Netherland	≈ 47 thousand km²
68	Duchy of Bavaria	≈ 46 thousand km²
69	Republic of Venice	≈ 45 thousand km²
70	Switzerland	≈ 44 thousand km²
71	Aceh Sultanate	≈ 42 thousand km²
72	Papal States	≈ 42 thousand km²
73	Bhutan	≈ 42 thousand km²
74	House of Savoy	≈ 41 thousand km²
75	Sultanate of Banjar	≈ 39 thousand km²
76	Malacca Sultanate	≈ 37 thousand km²
77	Electorate of Saxony	≈ 35 thousand km²
78	New France	≈ 33 thousand km²
79	Portuguese Ceylon	≈ 33 thousand km²
80	Itza people	≈ 33 thousand km²
81	Sultanate of Cirebon	≈ 30 thousand km²
82	Dutch Cape Colony	≈ 29 thousand km²
83	Sultan of Perak	≈ 24 thousand km²
84	Bali Kingdom	≈ 22 thousand km²
85	Patani Kingdom	≈ 20 thousand km²
86	Republic of Florence	≈ 20 thousand km²
87	Kingdom of Mysore	≈ 18 thousand km²
88	Duchy of Lorraine	≈ 17 thousand km²
89	Blambangan Kingdom	≈ 16 thousand km²
90	Kingdom of Kartli	≈ 15 thousand km²
91	Thanjavur Nayak kingdom	≈ 15 thousand km²
92	Republic of Genoa	≈ 14 thousand km²
93	Mạc dynasty	≈ 14 thousand km²
94	Principality of Mingrelia	≈ 13 thousand km²
95	Kedah Sultanate	≈ 13 thousand km²
96	Kingdom of Imereti	≈ 11 thousand km²
97	Tanjungpura Kingdom	≈ 11 thousand km²
98	Bima Sultanate	≈ 10 thousand km²
99	Kutai	≈ 6,766 km²
100	Oyo Empire	≈ 6,032 km²
101	Sultanate of Sambas	≈ 5,844 km²
102	Principality of Abkhazia	≈ 5,829 km²
103	Principality of Guria	≈ 4,659 km²
104	Sultanate of Sulu	≈ 3,844 km²
105	Dutch Gold Coast	≈ 3,446 km²
106	Mempawah Kingdom	≈ 2,937 km²
107	New Sweden	≈ 2,841 km²
108	Sultanate of Gowa	≈ 2,613 km²
109	Comtat Venaissin	≈ 2,319 km²
110	Sultan	≈ 2,155 km²
111	Republic of Ragusa	≈ 1,540 km²
112	Kathmandu	≈ 661 km²
113	Sultanate of Maguindanao	≈ 373 km²
114	County of Urgell	≈ 309 km²
115	Monaco	≈ 164 km²

Map of this frame (only countries over 400,000 km², simplified)

New countries in this frame (2)

Dutch Cape Colony · Dutch Gold Coast

Countries that disappeared in this frame (4)

Kingdom of England · Ahmadnagar Sultanate · Champa · Confederate Ireland

Directions of expansion (2)

These are cases where one country’s land grew into another country’s former land (not actual routes of advance).

Qing dynasty → former land of Southern Ming, ≈ 1.87 million km²
First Toungoo Empire → former land of Southern Ming, ≈ 112 thousand km²

The world in AD 1653

18 events from the sources that fall in this frame, grouped by region.

China (4)

AD 1654 — In the twelfth month Zheng Chenggong took Zhangzhou and besieged Quanzhou (泉州). (Draft History of Qing (Qingshigao) 清史稿卷5 順治11年十二月)
AD 1656 — Zheng Chenggong's forces took the Minan garrison and besieged Fuzhou, but government troops drove them back. (Draft History of Qing (Qingshigao) 清史稿卷5 順治13年八月)
AD 1656 — In the ninth month government forces defeated Zheng Chenggong's commanders at Xiaguan and Hengshuiyang and recovered Zhoushan. (Draft History of Qing (Qingshigao) 清史稿卷5 順治13年九月)
AD 1658 — In the fourth month government forces defeated the enemy at Hezhou (合州) and took Chongqing. (Draft History of Qing (Qingshigao) 清史稿卷5 順治15年四月)

Egypt & North Africa (1)

AD 1655 — Sultan Mulay Muhammad Eshsheikh dies in Marrakesh, and his son El-Abbas is proclaimed (Tarikh al-Sudan (Chronicle of the Sudan) Houdas 1900 불역 장 XXXVIII (houdas1900_fr_djvu.txt 줄 21356))

Sub-Saharan Africa (7)

AD 1653 — The author's brother Muhammad Sadi arrives at the port of Kabara (Tarikh al-Sudan (Chronicle of the Sudan) Houdas 1900 불역 장 XXXV (houdas1900_fr_djvu.txt 줄 19521))
AD 1653 — The author completes this collection of chronicles (Tarikh al-Sudan (Chronicle of the Sudan) Houdas 1900 불역 장 XXXVII (houdas1900_fr_djvu.txt 줄 20839))
AD 1653 — When the people of Jenne lose hope of defeating the rebel brothers, Jenne-koi Muhammad Kanbara returns (Tarikh al-Sudan (Chronicle of the Sudan) Houdas 1900 불역 장 XXXVIII (houdas1900_fr_djvu.txt 줄 20854))
AD 1653 — Two senior officers come to Timbuktu to appeal against the rebel Jenne-koi and ask for reinforcements (Tarikh al-Sudan (Chronicle of the Sudan) Houdas 1900 불역 장 XXXVIII (houdas1900_fr_djvu.txt 줄 20862))
AD 1653 — Pasha Ahmad entrusts command to two deputy generals and dispatches a relief force to Jenne (Tarikh al-Sudan (Chronicle of the Sudan) Houdas 1900 불역 장 XXXVIII (houdas1900_fr_djvu.txt 줄 20866))
AD 1654 — It is reported that the Tuareg who had fled from the people of Gao came back to submit, and that only Alla remained in Askia's territory (Tarikh al-Sudan (Chronicle of the Sudan) Houdas 1900 불역 장 XXXVIII (houdas1900_fr_djvu.txt 줄 20934))
AD 1655 — Two officers arrive from Jenne: a letter from Caid Ali reports that followers of Jenne-koi attacked a boat carrying salt and killed five people (Tarikh al-Sudan (Chronicle of the Sudan) Houdas 1900 불역 장 XXXVIII (houdas1900_fr_djvu.txt 줄 21115))

The Americas (6)

AD 1653 — On July 21 two enemies (Onneiocronnon Tehoatirhon and a Huron from Onnontaé) came by canoe to negotiate peace — and reported that Michel Noël's Montreal boat had been destroyed by the Iroquois (The Jesuit Relations Thwaites, Jesuit Relations vol. 38 (파일 jesuits38jesuuoft.txt, 공백정리본 285339자 지점))
AD 1654 — Le Moyne probably went overland from Lake Ontario to the Onondaga village (south from the mouth of the Salmon River) (editor's note) (The Jesuit Relations Thwaites, Jesuit Relations vol. 41 (파일 jesuits41jesuuoft.txt, 공백정리본 351641자 지점))
AD 1655 — The Onondagas confirmed the peace treaty and asked for missionaries; Chaumonot and Dablon were sent (editor's summary) (The Jesuit Relations Thwaites, Jesuit Relations vol. 41 (파일 jesuits41jesuuoft.txt, 공백정리본 12558자 지점))
AD 1656 — Fifty Frenchmen escorted the missionaries and had already begun a settlement amid the tribes, and two young men returned from an exploration of the upper lakes in August 1656 (editor's summary) (The Jesuit Relations Thwaites, Jesuit Relations vol. 42 (파일 jesuits42jesuuoft.txt, 공백정리본 10196자 지점))
AD 1656 — The party reached the mouth of the river that forms Lake Gannentaa at about ten at night — intending to build a residence on its shore (The Jesuit Relations Thwaites, Jesuit Relations vol. 43 (파일 jesuits43jesuuoft.txt, 공백정리본 192438자 지점))
AD 1657 — A Huron prisoner who had fled Onondaga came to Quebec and warned of a plot to lure the French and Hurons and exterminate them (The Jesuit Relations Thwaites, Jesuit Relations vol. 43 (파일 jesuits43jesuuoft.txt, 공백정리본 13156자 지점))

Changes of power ◆

◆ AD 1653 — Ahmadnagar Sultanate ends
◆ AD 1653 — Champa ends
◆ AD 1653 — Qing dynasty takes 1,870,100 km² of former Southern Ming land
◆ AD 1653 — First Toungoo Empire takes 112,000 km² of former Southern Ming land
◆ AD 1653 — Southern Ming loses 1,870,100 km² to Qing dynasty
◆ AD 1653 — Southern Ming loses 112,000 km² to First Toungoo Empire

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