Central Asia in 1919
1919 is the year of the Treaty of Versailles. This map shows the 15 states and peoples the data has for Central Asia in that year.
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States and peoples in Central Asia in 1919
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Russian Republic
- Kuomintang
- Qajar Dynasty
- Emirate of Afghanistan
- Khanate of Khiva
- Tibet
- Great Mongol State
- British Raj
- Emirate of Bukhara
- Azerbaijan Democratic Republic
- British Africa
- British Colonial Empire
- Armenia
- Georgia
- Ottoman Empire
New on the map since 1894
Russian Republic · Kuomintang · Khanate of Khiva · Tibet · Great Mongol State · Emirate of Bukhara · Azerbaijan Democratic Republic · British Africa · British Colonial Empire · Armenia · Georgia
Gone from the map by 1944
Russian Republic · Kuomintang · Qajar Dynasty · Emirate of Afghanistan · Khanate of Khiva · Great Mongol State · Emirate of Bukhara · Azerbaijan Democratic Republic · Armenia · Georgia · Ottoman Empire
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Central Asia in other years
Other regions in 1919
The outlines are coarse and follow the Cliopatria dataset: borders before modern surveys are estimates, and a blank area means the data has no state on record there, not that nobody lived there. A state that changed hands during the year can appear together with its successor.