Skip to main content

World Map in 2000 BCE: Empires & Borders

45 states, empires and peoples are on the world map in 2000 BCE. Drag the timeline to watch their borders change, or click a region for its history.

Empires and kingdoms in 2000 BCE

  1. Hurrian Kingdoms — 74,963 km²

Other states and peoples in 2000 BCE

  1. Archaic Amerindian hunter-gatherers — 28,808,063 km²
  2. Bantu — 12,787,596 km²
  3. Saharan pastoral nomads — 9,696,266 km²
  4. Australian aboriginal hunter-gatherers — 7,587,782 km²
  5. Paleo-Siberian hunter-gatherers — 7,483,302 km²
  6. Khoisan — 6,292,931 km²
  7. Austro-Asiatic rice cultures — 5,854,367 km²
  8. Arctic marine mammal hunters — 5,133,923 km²
  9. Mesoamerican hunter-gatherers and maïze farmers — 4,484,677 km²
  10. Andronovo — 4,180,517 km²
  11. Finno-Ugric taiga hunter-gatherers — 3,988,349 km²
  12. Thai — 3,841,517 km²
  13. Semites — 2,986,152 km²
  14. Austronesians — 1,506,528 km²
  15. Tibeto-Burmanese — 1,398,803 km²
  16. Afanasevo — 1,314,547 km²
  17. Catacomb culture — 964,048 km²
  18. Koreans — 812,672 km²
  19. Indus valley civilization — 765,176 km²
  20. Ur — 339,009 km²

New since 3000 BCE

Gone since 3000 BCE

← World map in 3000 BCE · The interactive history atlas · World map in 1500 BCE →