# Map of the Golden Horde

Source page: https://geographichistory.app/empire/golden-horde/

On the Geographic History map, the Golden Horde appears from 1261 to 1442. It reaches its largest mapped extent in 1261: about 5.4 million km² across 100 provinces.

The Golden Horde was the Mongol khanate founded by Batu Khan, a grandson of Genghis Khan, after his western campaigns of the 1230s and 1240s. From its capital Sarai on the Volga it ruled the steppe from the Danube to western Siberia and took tribute from the Russian principalities. In the 15th century it broke apart into the khanates of Kazan, Crimea, Astrakhan and others.

## Mapped area by year (km²)

- 1261: 5,375,000
- 1271: 4,834,000
- 1281: 4,834,000
- 1291: 4,834,000
- 1301: 4,829,000
- 1311: 4,829,000
- 1321: 4,776,000
- 1331: 4,724,000
- 1341: 4,657,000
- 1351: 4,549,000
- 1361: 4,400,000
- 1371: 4,336,000
- 1381: 4,264,000
- 1391: 4,264,000
- 1401: 2,344,000
- 1411: 2,344,000
- 1421: 2,344,000
- 1431: 1,262,000
- 1441: 700,000

## 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.