Atlas
Each point is a locator for a published case’s geographical context — not a border, capital or claim. Everything on the map is also in the list below, which works without the map.
Legend
- Independence movements
- Political status and decolonisation
- Autonomy and Indigenous self-government
- Historical independence
- Unification and territorial transfer
- Group of nearby locators — select to zoom
Shapes and colours never indicate legitimacy; collections are also named in the list.
Map data and boundary policy
Basemap: Natural Earth 4.1.0 land polygons (world-atlas@2.0.2), Public domain (Natural Earth terms of use). Land polygons only. No political boundaries are drawn by the basemap. Case boundaries appear only from approved, sourced geometry records, each labelled with its layer type, dates and provenance. Map policy.
Loading the interactive map… The full list of cases is below and does not need the map.
Cases on the map
20 cases matching South Asia. The map shows the same set.
| Case | Collection | Region | Locator | Map |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assamese independence | Independence movements | South Asia | Assam | |
| Baloch self-determination movements | Independence movements | South Asia | Balochistan and Sistan and Baluchestan | |
| Bangladesh | Historical independence | South Asia | Bangladesh | |
| Bodoland | Independence movements | South Asia | Bodoland Territorial Region, Assam | |
| Chittagong Hill Tracts self-government | Independence movements | South Asia | Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh | |
| Gilgit-Baltistan political-status movements | Political status and decolonisation | South Asia | Gilgit-Baltistan | |
| Gorkhaland | Independence movements | South Asia | Darjeeling and Kalimpong hills, West Bengal | |
| India | Historical independence | South Asia | India | |
| Kamtapur political-status movements | Independence movements | South Asia | Cooch Behar and surrounding North Bengal districts | |
| Kashmir political status and self-determination | Political status and decolonisation | South Asia | Jammu and Kashmir | |
| Khalistan movement | Independence movements | South Asia | Punjab, India | |
| Ladakh political-status movements | Autonomy and Indigenous self-government | South Asia | Ladakh | |
| Manipuri independence movement | Independence movements | South Asia | Manipur | |
| Mizo independence history | Independence movements | South Asia | Mizoram | |
| Naga self-determination / Nagalim | Independence movements | South Asia | Nagaland and surrounding Naga-inhabited areas | |
| Pakistan | Historical independence | South Asia | Pakistan | |
| Pashtunistan political projects | Independence movements | South Asia | Pashtun-populated areas along the Durand Line | |
| Sindhi independence / Sindhudesh | Independence movements | South Asia | Sindh, Pakistan | |
| Tamil Eelam | Historical independence | South Asia | Northern and Eastern Sri Lanka | |
| Tripuri independence and self-government movements | Independence movements | South Asia | Tripura |