Europe in 1938
1938 is the eve of the Second World War. 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 1938
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- Republic of Turkey
- Kingdom of Sweden
- Nazi Germany
- Republic of Finland
- French Third Republic
- Kingdom of Norway
- Second Polish Republic
- French Africa
- Spanish Nationalists
- Kingdom of Romania
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Kingdom of Italy
- Yugoslavia
- Kingdom of Iceland
- Second Spanish Republic
- French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon
- First Hellenic Republic
- Hungarian Republic
- Kingdom of Iraq
- Principality of Bulgaria
- Czechoslovakia
- Republic of Latvia
- Estado Novo
- Éire
- Kingdom of Lithuania
- Estonia
- Denmark-Norway
- Greenland
- Swiss Confederation
- Netherlands
- Kingdom of Belgium
- Albania
- Pahlavi Dynasty
- Free City of Danzig
- Luxembourg
- Tangier International Zone
- Principality of Andorra
- Kingdom of Monaco
New on the map since 1913
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics · Republic of Turkey · Nazi Germany · Republic of Finland · Second Polish Republic · Spanish Nationalists · Kingdom of Romania · Yugoslavia · Kingdom of Iceland · Second Spanish Republic · French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon · Hungarian Republic · Kingdom of Iraq · Czechoslovakia · Republic of Latvia · Estado Novo · Éire · Kingdom of Lithuania · Estonia · Greenland · Pahlavi Dynasty · Free City of Danzig
Gone from the map by 1963
Nazi Germany · French Third Republic · Second Polish Republic · French Africa · Spanish Nationalists · Kingdom of Romania · Kingdom of Italy · Yugoslavia · Kingdom of Iceland · Second Spanish Republic · French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon · First Hellenic Republic · Hungarian Republic · Kingdom of Iraq · Principality of Bulgaria · Republic of Latvia · Kingdom of Lithuania · Estonia · Denmark-Norway · Greenland · Albania · Free City of Danzig · Tangier International Zone · Kingdom of Monaco
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Other regions in 1938
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.