Europe in 1920
This map shows the 39 states and peoples the data has for Europe in that year.
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States and peoples in Europe in 1920
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Republics of the Soviet Union
- Kingdom of Sweden
- Republic of Finland
- Ottoman Empire
- French Third Republic
- Weimar Republic
- Kingdom of Norway
- Kingdom of Spain
- Second Polish Republic
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- French Africa
- Kingdom of Romania
- Kingdom of Italy
- Yugoslavia
- Denmark-Norway
- First Hellenic Republic
- Kingdom of Iceland
- Czechoslovakia
- French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon
- British Colonial Empire
- Principality of Bulgaria
- Hungarian Republic
- Republic of Austria
- Republic of Latvia
- Portuguese Republic
- Kingdom of Lithuania
- Estonia
- Georgia
- Swiss Confederation
- Netherlands
- Kingdom of Belgium
- Albania
- Qajar Dynasty
- United States of America
- Free City of Danzig
- Luxembourg
- Tangier International Zone
- Principality of Andorra
- Kingdom of Monaco
New on the map since 1895
Republics of the Soviet Union · Kingdom of Sweden · Republic of Finland · Weimar Republic · Kingdom of Norway · Second Polish Republic · Kingdom of Romania · Yugoslavia · Kingdom of Iceland · Czechoslovakia · French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon · British Colonial Empire · Hungarian Republic · Republic of Austria · Republic of Latvia · Portuguese Republic · Kingdom of Lithuania · Estonia · Georgia · Albania · Qajar Dynasty · United States of America · Free City of Danzig · Tangier International Zone
Gone from the map by 1945
Republics of the Soviet Union · Ottoman Empire · French Third Republic · Weimar Republic · Kingdom of Spain · Second Polish Republic · Kingdom of Romania · Denmark-Norway · First Hellenic Republic · Kingdom of Iceland · Czechoslovakia · British Colonial Empire · Principality of Bulgaria · Hungarian Republic · Republic of Austria · Republic of Latvia · Portuguese Republic · Kingdom of Lithuania · Estonia · Georgia · Qajar Dynasty · Free City of Danzig · Kingdom of Monaco
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Other regions in 1920
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.