East Asia in 1989
1989 is the year the Berlin Wall fell. This map shows the 16 states and peoples the data has for East Asia in that year.
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States and peoples in East Asia in 1989
Largest first, by area on this map.
- People's Republic of China
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- Mongolian People's Republic
- Burma
- Japan
- Kingdom of Thailand
- Communist Laos
- Socialist Republic of Vietnam
- Democratic People's Republic of Korea
- Republic of Korea
- Republic of the Philippines
- Republic of China
- Republic of India
- United States of America
- British Colonial Empire
- Portugal
New on the map since 1964
Communist Laos · Socialist Republic of Vietnam · Portugal
Gone from the map by 2014
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics · Mongolian People's Republic · Burma · United States of America · British Colonial Empire
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East Asia in other years
Other regions in 1989
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.