Europe in 1930
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 1930
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- Republic of Turkey
- Kingdom of Sweden
- Republic of Finland
- French Third Republic
- Weimar Republic
- Kingdom of Norway
- Kingdom of Spain
- Second Polish Republic
- French Africa
- Kingdom of Romania
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Kingdom of Italy
- Yugoslavia
- Kingdom of Iceland
- Czechoslovakia
- French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon
- First Hellenic Republic
- British Africa
- Principality of Bulgaria
- Hungarian Republic
- Republic of Austria
- Republic of Latvia
- Estado Novo
- Irish Free State
- Kingdom of Lithuania
- Estonia
- Denmark-Norway
- Swiss Confederation
- Netherlands
- Kingdom of Belgium
- Albania
- Pahlavi Dynasty
- Free City of Danzig
- Greenland
- Luxembourg
- Tangier International Zone
- Principality of Andorra
- Kingdom of Monaco
New on the map since 1905
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics · Republic of Turkey · Republic of Finland · Weimar Republic · Second Polish Republic · Kingdom of Romania · Yugoslavia · Kingdom of Iceland · Czechoslovakia · French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon · British Africa · Hungarian Republic · Republic of Austria · Republic of Latvia · Estado Novo · Irish Free State · Kingdom of Lithuania · Estonia · Albania · Pahlavi Dynasty · Free City of Danzig · Greenland · Tangier International Zone
Gone from the map by 1955
French Third Republic · Weimar Republic · Kingdom of Spain · Second Polish Republic · Kingdom of Romania · Kingdom of Italy · Yugoslavia · Kingdom of Iceland · French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon · First Hellenic Republic · British Africa · Principality of Bulgaria · Hungarian Republic · Republic of Austria · Republic of Latvia · Irish Free State · Kingdom of Lithuania · Estonia · Denmark-Norway · Albania · Free City of Danzig · Greenland · Kingdom of Monaco
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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.