Mughal Empire

1526 – 1857 · up to 3,760 thousand km² · Asia

Capital: Agra (1526–1540), Fatehpur Sikri (1571–1585), Old Delhi (1648–1857), Lahore, Delhi

The Mughal Empire was an early modern empire in South Asia. At its peak, the empire stretched from the outer fringes of the Indus River Basin in the west, northern Afghanistan in the northwest, and Kashmir in the north, to the highlands of present-day Assam and Bangladesh in the east, and the uplands of the Deccan Plateau in South India.