East Asia in 1949
1949 is the year NATO and the two German states were founded. This map shows the 15 states and peoples the data has for East Asia in that year.
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States and peoples in East Asia in 1949
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Republic of China
- Communist Party of China
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- Mongolian People's Republic
- United States of America
- Burma
- French Indochina
- Kingdom of Thailand
- Democratic People's Republic of Korea
- Republic of Korea
- Republic of the Philippines
- Republic of India
- Kingdom of Bhutan
- British Colonial Empire
- Estado Novo
New on the map since 1924
Republic of China · Communist Party of China · Mongolian People's Republic · Burma · Kingdom of Thailand · Democratic People's Republic of Korea · Republic of Korea · Republic of the Philippines · Republic of India · Kingdom of Bhutan · Estado Novo
Gone from the map by 1974
Communist Party of China · French Indochina · Kingdom of Bhutan
Animated maps of this time
East Asia in other years
Other regions in 1949
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.