The Mediterranean in 1940
This map shows the 24 states and peoples the data has for The Mediterranean in that year.
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States and peoples in the Mediterranean in 1940
Largest first, by area on this map.
- French Africa
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- Republic of Turkey
- Italian Africa
- Nazi Germany
- Francoist Spain
- Kingdom of Egypt
- Kingdom of Italy
- Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- Vichy France
- Kingdom of Iraq
- Kingdom of Romania
- Yugoslavia
- French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon
- Hungarian Republic
- First Hellenic Republic
- British Africa
- Principality of Bulgaria
- Estado Novo
- Swiss Confederation
- Pahlavi Dynasty
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Tangier International Zone
- Principality of Andorra
New on the map since 1915
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics · Republic of Turkey · Nazi Germany · Francoist Spain · Kingdom of Egypt · Kingdom of Saudi Arabia · Vichy France · Kingdom of Iraq · Kingdom of Romania · Yugoslavia · French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon · Hungarian Republic · Estado Novo · Pahlavi Dynasty
Gone from the map by 1965
French Africa · Italian Africa · Nazi Germany · Kingdom of Egypt · Kingdom of Italy · Vichy France · Kingdom of Iraq · Kingdom of Romania · Yugoslavia · French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon · Hungarian Republic · First Hellenic Republic · British Africa · Principality of Bulgaria · Tangier International Zone
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The Mediterranean in other years
Other regions in 1940
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.