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Polity East Asia

Saipan

Attested 1938 CE

Largest island and capital of the Northern Mariana Islands

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Why this bar's edges are floors, not a founding and a fall.

The atlas draws the world at one moment in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Saipan appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

1938 CE

Elsewhere in East Asia at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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Landmark · East Asia

Yakushima

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · East Asia

Russia

Founded 1263 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Trade route · East Asia

Tea Horse Road

700 CE – 1950 CE

Conflict · East Asia

Second Sino-Japanese War

1937 CE – 1945 CE

Landmark · East Asia

Great Wall of China

700 BCE – still standing

Polity · East Asia

Philippines

Founded 1492 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Conflict · East Asia

Chinese Civil War

1927 CE – 1949 CE

Landmark · East Asia

Ha Long Bay

3000 BCE – still standing

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Grand Canyon Landmark · Americas 3000 BCE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Nikola Tesla Figure · Serbia / United States 1856 CE – 1943 CE Waziristan Campaigns Conflict · South Asia 1919 CE – 1939 CE Great Barrier Reef Landmark · Oceania 3000 BCE – still standing Canada Polity · Americas Founded 1815 CE · attested to 2026 CE
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