The world in 1920
This map shows the 82 states and peoples the data has for the world in that year.
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States and peoples in the world in 1920
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Republics of the Soviet Union
- British Colonial Empire
- United States of America
- British Africa
- French Africa
- Brazilian Republic
- Commonwealth of Australia
- Kuomintang
- British Raj
- Argentine Confederation
- Belgian Congo
- Portuguese Republic
- Mexico
- Dutch East Indies
- Qajar Dynasty
- Italian Africa
- Tibet
- Bolivia
- Republic of Peru
- Ethiopian Empire
- Republic of Colombia
- Empire of Japan
- Kingdom of Spain
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Kingdom of Sweden
- Venezuela
- French Third Republic
- Republic of Chile
- Republic of Finland
- Ottoman Empire
- French Indochina
- Emirate of Afghanistan
- Weimar Republic
- Kingdom of Norway
- Second Polish Republic
- Emirate of Nejd
- Rattanakosin Kingdom
- Kingdom of Romania
- Kingdom of Italy
- Greenland
- Yugoslavia
- Kingdom of Hejaz
- Denmark-Norway
- Emirate of Jabal Shammar
- First Hellenic Republic
- French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon
- Republic of Ecuador
- Kingdom of Iceland
- Czechoslovakia
- Oriental Republic of Uruguay
- North Yemen
- Paraguay
- Nepal
- Netherlands Antilles
- Principality of Bulgaria
- Sultanate of Muscat and Oman
- Hungarian Republic
- Republic of Nicaragua
- Republic of Austria
- Republic of Latvia
- Honduras
- Republic of Cuba
- Guatemala
- Kingdom of Lithuania
- Asir
- Georgia
- Republic of Liberia
- Estonia
- Republic of Panama
- Swiss Confederation
- Netherlands
- Kingdom of Belgium
- Republic of Costa Rica
- Kingdom of Bhutan
- Albania
- Republic of El Salvador
- New Hebrides
- 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 · Commonwealth of Australia · Kuomintang · Portuguese Republic · Tibet · Kingdom of Sweden · Republic of Finland · Weimar Republic · Kingdom of Norway · Second Polish Republic · Kingdom of Romania · Yugoslavia · Kingdom of Hejaz · French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon · Kingdom of Iceland · Czechoslovakia · North Yemen · Sultanate of Muscat and Oman · Hungarian Republic · Republic of Austria · Republic of Latvia · Republic of Cuba · Kingdom of Lithuania · Asir · Georgia · Estonia · Republic of Panama · Albania · Free City of Danzig · Tangier International Zone
Gone from the map by 1945
Republics of the Soviet Union · Brazilian Republic · Kuomintang · Argentine Confederation · Portuguese Republic · Dutch East Indies · Qajar Dynasty · Italian Africa · Ethiopian Empire · Kingdom of Spain · French Third Republic · Ottoman Empire · Emirate of Afghanistan · Weimar Republic · Second Polish Republic · Emirate of Nejd · Rattanakosin Kingdom · Kingdom of Romania · Greenland · Kingdom of Hejaz · Denmark-Norway · Emirate of Jabal Shammar · First Hellenic Republic · Kingdom of Iceland · Czechoslovakia · Principality of Bulgaria · Hungarian Republic · Republic of Austria · Republic of Latvia · Kingdom of Lithuania · Asir · Georgia · Estonia · Free City of Danzig · 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.