# Map of the Aztec Empire

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

On the Geographic History map, the Aztec Empire appears from 1428 to 1521. It reaches its largest mapped extent in 1506: about 220 thousand km² across 13 provinces.

The Aztec Empire was the Triple Alliance of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco and Tlacopan, formed in 1428, which dominated central Mexico mainly through tribute rather than direct rule. Tenochtitlan, built on an island in Lake Texcoco, was one of the largest cities in the world at the time. Hernan Cortes and his Indigenous allies captured the city in 1521.

## Mapped area by year (km²)

- 1428: 46,000
- 1433: 46,000
- 1438: 46,000
- 1443: 46,000
- 1448: 46,000
- 1453: 67,000
- 1458: 67,000
- 1463: 67,000
- 1468: 67,000
- 1473: 67,000
- 1478: 126,000
- 1483: 126,000
- 1488: 189,000
- 1493: 189,000
- 1498: 189,000
- 1503: 189,000
- 1508: 217,000
- 1513: 217,000
- 1518: 217,000
- 1521: 208,000

## 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.