# Map of the Achaemenid Empire

Source page: https://geographichistory.app/empire/achaemenid-empire/

On the Geographic History map, the Achaemenid Empire appears from 467 BC to 330 BC. It reaches its largest mapped extent in 438 BC: about 6.7 million km² across 176 provinces.

Founded by Cyrus the Great around 550 BC, the Achaemenid Empire was the first Persian empire, and at its height under Darius I it stretched from Egypt and the Aegean to the Indus. It was run through provinces called satrapies, linked by the Royal Road, with capitals at Pasargadae, Susa and Persepolis. Alexander the Great conquered it between 334 and 330 BC.

## Mapped area by year (km²)

- 467 BC: 6,732,000
- 462 BC: 6,732,000
- 457 BC: 6,732,000
- 452 BC: 6,699,000
- 447 BC: 6,699,000
- 442 BC: 6,699,000
- 437 BC: 6,737,000
- 432 BC: 6,737,000
- 427 BC: 6,737,000
- 422 BC: 6,737,000
- 417 BC: 6,737,000
- 412 BC: 6,737,000
- 407 BC: 6,544,000
- 402 BC: 6,637,000
- 397 BC: 6,239,000
- 392 BC: 6,239,000
- 387 BC: 6,239,000
- 382 BC: 6,239,000
- 377 BC: 6,239,000
- 372 BC: 6,239,000
- 367 BC: 6,239,000
- 362 BC: 6,239,000
- 357 BC: 6,239,000
- 352 BC: 6,239,000
- 347 BC: 6,239,000
- 342 BC: 6,239,000
- 337 BC: 6,239,000
- 332 BC: 6,195,000
- 330 BC: 559,000

## About this map

Territory comes from the Chronas historical dataset used by the Geographic History app. Areas are approximate, computed from about 2,400 province shapes, and describe this map rather than official historical figures - border data for the ancient and medieval world is necessarily a reconstruction.