Europe in 1945
1945 is the end of the Second World War. This map shows the 27 states and peoples the data has for Europe in that year.
Watch these borders move
Play the changes on an animated map, in your browser. Free, no account needed.
States and peoples in Europe in 1945
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- Republic of Turkey
- Kingdom of Sweden
- French Fourth Republic
- Republic of Finland
- Kingdom of Norway
- Francoist Spain
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- United States of America
- French Africa
- Kingdom of Italy
- Yugoslavia
- French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon
- Kingdom of Greece
- British Africa
- Estado Novo
- Éire
- Denmark
- Swiss Confederation
- Netherlands
- Kingdom of Belgium
- Albania
- Lebanon
- Luxembourg
- Tangier International Zone
- Principality of Andorra
- Principality of Monaco
New on the map since 1920
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics · Republic of Turkey · French Fourth Republic · Francoist Spain · Kingdom of Greece · British Africa · Estado Novo · Éire · Denmark · Lebanon · Principality of Monaco
Gone from the map by 1970
French Fourth Republic · United States of America · French Africa · Kingdom of Italy · Yugoslavia · French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon · Kingdom of Greece · British Africa · Albania · Tangier International Zone
Animated maps of this time
Europe in other years
Other regions in 1945
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.