World map in AD 1788 — territory by country

Frame AD 1788 — world borders from AD 1788 to AD 1790. 129 countries have territory in this frame, and the largest is Russian Empire (≈ 16.31 million km²).

Countries with territory in this frame (129, largest first)

Rank	Country	Area
1	Russian Empire	≈ 16.31 million km²
2	Qing dynasty	≈ 11.33 million km²
3	Spanish Empire	≈ 11.25 million km²
4	Portuguese Empire	≈ 7.83 million km²
5	Ottoman Empire	≈ 2.87 million km²
6	Kazakh Khanate	≈ 2.12 million km²
7	Durrani Empire	≈ 1.79 million km²
8	Tibet	≈ 1.25 million km²
9	Maratha Empire	≈ 1.18 million km²
10	United States	≈ 1.06 million km²
11	Zand dynasty	≈ 899 thousand km²
12	Swedish Empire	≈ 790 thousand km²
13	British Empire	≈ 695 thousand km²
14	Konbaung dynasty	≈ 676 thousand km²
15	Habsburg monarchy	≈ 669 thousand km²
16	Funj Sultanate	≈ 627 thousand km²
17	Qajar dynasty	≈ 579 thousand km²
18	Kingdom of France	≈ 534 thousand km²
19	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth	≈ 533 thousand km²
20	Denmark–Norway	≈ 526 thousand km²
21	British Empire	≈ 517 thousand km²
22	Spain	≈ 504 thousand km²
23	Morocco	≈ 388 thousand km²
24	Mughal Empire	≈ 364 thousand km²
25	Rattanakosin Kingdom (1782–1932)	≈ 360 thousand km²
26	Great Britain	≈ 342 thousand km²
27	Kanem–Bornu Empire	≈ 339 thousand km²
28	Khanate of Khiva	≈ 334 thousand km²
29	Tokugawa shogunate	≈ 329 thousand km²
30	Dutch Republic	≈ 325 thousand km²
31	Sultanate of Darfur	≈ 294 thousand km²
32	Wadai Sultanate	≈ 280 thousand km²
33	Dutch Cape Colony	≈ 279 thousand km²
34	First Saudi state	≈ 274 thousand km²
35	Emirate of Bukhara	≈ 266 thousand km²
36	Ethiopian Empire	≈ 240 thousand km²
37	Joseon	≈ 232 thousand km²
38	Regency of Algiers	≈ 211 thousand km²
39	Kingdom of Prussia	≈ 206 thousand km²
40	Khanates of the Caucasus	≈ 194 thousand km²
41	Khmer Empire	≈ 185 thousand km²
42	Hyderabad State	≈ 184 thousand km²
43	Holy Roman Empire	≈ 178 thousand km²
44	Vientiane	≈ 173 thousand km²
45	Nepal	≈ 170 thousand km²
46	Johor Sultanate	≈ 165 thousand km²
47	Rassid dynasty	≈ 154 thousand km²
48	Asante Empire	≈ 153 thousand km²
49	Tây Sơn dynasty	≈ 150 thousand km²
50	Luang Prabang	≈ 148 thousand km²
51	Carnatic Sultanate	≈ 124 thousand km²
52	Oman	≈ 121 thousand km²
53	Lunda Empire	≈ 112 thousand km²
54	Greenland	≈ 102 thousand km²
55	Kingdom of Portugal	≈ 96 thousand km²
56	Nawab of Awadh	≈ 94 thousand km²
57	Kingdom of Naples (Napoleonic)	≈ 92 thousand km²
58	Kingdom of Mysore	≈ 91 thousand km²
59	Oyo Empire	≈ 88 thousand km²
60	Khanate of Kokand	≈ 86 thousand km²
61	Karamanli dynasty	≈ 86 thousand km²
62	Cambodia	≈ 81 thousand km²
63	Beylik of Tunis	≈ 79 thousand km²
64	Kingdom of Sardinia (1720–1861)	≈ 78 thousand km²
65	New France	≈ 77 thousand km²
66	Palembang Sultanate	≈ 75 thousand km²
67	Wallachia	≈ 74 thousand km²
68	Moldavia	≈ 71 thousand km²
69	Sultanate of Brunei (1368–1888)	≈ 69 thousand km²
70	Sultanate of Sulu	≈ 68 thousand km²
71	Chiang Mai	≈ 65 thousand km²
72	Banten Sultanate	≈ 64 thousand km²
73	Sikh Confederacy	≈ 63 thousand km²
74	Duchy of Bavaria	≈ 56 thousand km²
75	Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti	≈ 55 thousand km²
76	Malacca Sultanate	≈ 48 thousand km²
77	Republic of Venice	≈ 45 thousand km²
78	New Netherland	≈ 44 thousand km²
79	Switzerland	≈ 44 thousand km²
80	Kingdom of Champasak	≈ 42 thousand km²
81	Aceh Sultanate	≈ 42 thousand km²
82	Papal States	≈ 42 thousand km²
83	Bhutan	≈ 41 thousand km²
84	Sultanate of Banjar	≈ 39 thousand km²
85	Electorate of Saxony	≈ 33 thousand km²
86	Electorate of Hanover	≈ 32 thousand km²
87	Dutch Ceylon	≈ 29 thousand km²
88	Vermont Republic	≈ 28 thousand km²
89	Duchy of Courland and Semigallia	≈ 28 thousand km²
90	Jambi Sultanate	≈ 28 thousand km²
91	Portuguese Empire	≈ 27 thousand km²
92	Sultan of Perak	≈ 24 thousand km²
93	Ségou Empire	≈ 23 thousand km²
94	Sultan of Terengganu	≈ 14 thousand km²
95	Thanjavur Maratha kingdom	≈ 14 thousand km²
96	Republic of Genoa	≈ 14 thousand km²
97	Kedah Sultanate	≈ 13 thousand km²
98	Sultan of Selangor	≈ 12 thousand km²
99	Tanjungpura Kingdom	≈ 11 thousand km²
100	Kingdom of Imereti	≈ 11 thousand km²
101	Bima Sultanate	≈ 10 thousand km²
102	Principality of Abkhazia	≈ 10 thousand km²
103	French India	≈ 10 thousand km²
104	Dutch Gold Coast	≈ 9,081 km²
105	Kelantan	≈ 8,555 km²
106	Bali	≈ 7,719 km²
107	Kutai	≈ 6,766 km²
108	Negeri Sembilan	≈ 5,900 km²
109	Sultanate of Sambas	≈ 5,844 km²
110	Kuwait	≈ 5,500 km²
111	Principality of Mingrelia	≈ 5,036 km²
112	Hamengkubuwono	≈ 4,177 km²
113	Pontianak Sultanate	≈ 4,061 km²
114	Principality of Guria	≈ 3,728 km²
115	Surakarta Sunanate	≈ 3,694 km²
116	Mạc dynasty	≈ 3,661 km²
117	Freetown	≈ 3,430 km²
118	Mempawah Kingdom	≈ 2,937 km²
119	Principality of Svaneti	≈ 2,507 km²
120	Danish India	≈ 2,222 km²
121	Comtat Venaissin	≈ 2,132 km²
122	Sultan	≈ 1,983 km²
123	House of Khalifa	≈ 1,576 km²
124	Republic of Ragusa	≈ 1,516 km²
125	Danish Gold Coast	≈ 718 km²
126	Sultanate of Maguindanao	≈ 373 km²
127	County of Urgell	≈ 309 km²
128	Monaco	≈ 164 km²
129	Liechtenstein	≈ 137 km²

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

New countries in this frame (3)

Qajar dynasty · Emirate of Bukhara · Freetown

Countries that disappeared in this frame (4)

Khanate of Bukhara · Trịnh lords · Gorkha kingdom · Kingdom of Mrauk U

Directions of expansion (1)

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

Khanates of the Caucasus → former land of Zand dynasty, ≈ 106 thousand km²

The world in AD 1788

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

China (3)

AD 1788 — In the eighth month the Gurkha (廓爾喀) again took Zongke, so Ehui was made general and Chengde assistant minister to suppress them. (Draft History of Qing (Qingshigao) 清史稿卷15 乾隆53年八月)
AD 1788 — In the twelfth month Yuexing was recovered, Lê Duy Kỳ was again enfeoffed as King of Annam, and titles were conferred on Sun Shiyi and Xu Shiheng. (Draft History of Qing (Qingshigao) 清史稿卷15 乾隆53年十二月)
AD 1789 — In the first month Nguyễn Huệ again took Yuexing, and Xu Shiheng and others died in battle. (Draft History of Qing (Qingshigao) 清史稿卷15 乾隆54年正月)

Southeast Asia (5)

AD 1788 — Nguyễn Văn Huệ reached Thăng Long and killed the general Wu Wenren. (Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư 續編卷之五「'''戊申，二年（淸乾隆五十三年」)
AD 1788 — The empress dowager fled to Duo'ai in Cao Bằng and asked Long Bằng for aid. (Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư 續編卷之五「'''戊申，二年（淸乾隆五十三年」)
AD 1788 — In the eleventh month he ascended the throne at Phú Xuân citadel, with the era name Quảng Trung. (Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư 續編卷之五「'''戊申，二年（淸乾隆五十三年」)
AD 1789 — In the first month, Nguyễn Văn Huệ crushed the Qing army at Thượng Phúc; Sun Shiyi fled north and the emperor fled to the Qing. (Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư 續編卷之五「'''己酉，三年（淸乾隆五十四年」)
AD 1790 — Captain Ball circumnavigates New Holland for the first time in just over six months; he discovers and names islands along the way, and buys rice and salt pork at Batavia, sending them behind on a chartered Dutch snow (Tench, Account of the First Fleet at Port Jackson CHAPTER X (raw line 2271))

Sub-Saharan Africa (1)

AD 1788 — At the Cape, the Sirius crew are well received by the Dutch governor, buy supplies from merchants and stay seven weeks; on the way back they come close to being wrecked near Tasman Head in Van Diemen's Land (Tench, Account of the First Fleet at Port Jackson CHAPTER IV (raw line 732))

Oceania (43)

AD 1788 — The Supply leaves for Norfolk Island on 20 July and returns on 26 August; the only news it brings is that Norfolk Island's soil suits grain and seed, and that similar plants probably grow wild there (Tench, Account of the First Fleet at Port Jackson CHAPTER II (raw line 236))
AD 1788 — Surveys Port Jackson harbour, counting 67 canoes and 147 people, but adds that these numbers do not allow a usable population estimate (Tench, Account of the First Fleet at Port Jackson CHAPTER II (raw line 242))
AD 1788 — The governor founds a new settlement 16 miles inland at Rose Hill; judging the soil better than Sydney's, he builds a small redoubt, and a captain's detachment guards the convicts farming there (Tench, Account of the First Fleet at Port Jackson CHAPTER II (raw line 261))
AD 1788 — The last two transports leave for England via Cape Horn on 19 November; the Supply is the only ship left, so the sense of isolation grows (Tench, Account of the First Fleet at Port Jackson CHAPTER II (raw line 267))
AD 1788 — On the governor's order, Lieutenant Ball and Lieutenant Johnston go to Manly Cove in two boats and seize two natives; the rest flee, then return crying out (Tench, Account of the First Fleet at Port Jackson CHAPTER III (raw line 342))
AD 1788 — The captured native arrives in Sydney: about thirty years old, not tall but sturdily built, and extremely agitated (his name later turns out to be Arabanoo) (Tench, Account of the First Fleet at Port Jackson CHAPTER III (raw line 364))
AD 1789 — The Supply sails again for Norfolk Island; the governor rides with it as far as below the harbour, and Arabanoo boards, reluctantly and with distrust (Tench, Account of the First Fleet at Port Jackson CHAPTER III (raw line 524))
AD 1789 — Sixteen convicts desert their brick-kiln work and march to Botany Bay to seize the natives' fishing gear and spears, but are counterattacked by the natives; one killed, seven wounded (Tench, Account of the First Fleet at Port Jackson CHAPTER III (raw line 555))
AD 1789 — A court-martial made up only of officers sentences six marines to be hanged for stealing flour, meat, liquor and tobacco from the government storehouse (Tench, Account of the First Fleet at Port Jackson CHAPTER III (raw line 587))
AD 1789 — Native corpses are found in many places around the harbour; their bodies were thickly covered with pustules resembling smallpox, and the record states they could not explain why a disease unknown to the natives spread (Tench, Account of the First Fleet at Port Jackson CHAPTER IV (raw line 604))

Changes of power ◆

◆ AD 1788 — Emirate of Bukhara appears
◆ AD 1788 — Qajar dynasty appears
◆ AD 1788 — Gorkha kingdom ends
◆ AD 1788 — Khanate of Bukhara ends
◆ AD 1788 — Kingdom of Mrauk U ends
◆ AD 1788 — Trịnh lords ends
◆ AD 1788 — Khanates of the Caucasus takes 106,100 km² of former Zand dynasty land
◆ AD 1788 — Zand dynasty loses 106,100 km² to Khanates of the Caucasus

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