State · 1463 – 1949

East Turkestan

A state of 1463 – 1949 — 486 years in Europe. The atlas records 1 thing within it — people 1.

Wikidata records no founding for it; the borders dataset maps it from 1463 to 1949, and those are the years drawn here.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 486 years; 1463 – 1949
Most ground: 1.08 million km²; in 1463
Within it: 1; recorded row
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: East Turkestan in 1463, its borders in gold among its neighbours — East Turkestan in 1463, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 1.08 million km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

East Turkestan in 1463, at its largest — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

East Turkestan in 1949, last mapped — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

1.08 million km² in 1463, 273,100 km² in 1949. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flag or arms

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

flag, undatedKokbayraq flag · Public domain

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1900 – 19991 row

Rebiya Kadeer · politician · 1947 – present

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood486 years
stood longer than 85% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held1,079,100 km²
held more ground at its peak than 85% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1414 – 1998, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1463, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q840601 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.