Historical world map · 1919
World map in 1919
The year of the Paris peace settlement, which redrew Germany's borders and handed its colonies to the victors. On 1 July, CShapes counts 63 independent states and 99 colonies and dependent territories. This sourced reconstruction contains 162 mapped geometries with source labels representing 162 distinct names.
- Mapped geometries
- 162
- Labeled geometries
- 162
- Distinct labels
- 162
- Data source
- CShapes 2.1 borders
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Border changes
What changed on the world map in 1919
Independence, new states, transfers between rulers, and border changes recorded in CShapes during 1919. The map above shows borders as of 1 July.
- Afghanistan becomes independent from United Kingdom.
- Kamerun ceases to exist as a separate entity; its capital passes to United Kingdom.
- Burkina Faso appears as a territory of France.
- British Cameroons appears as a territory of United Kingdom.
- Cameroon appears as a territory of France.
- Danzig appears as a territory of League of Nations.
- Mali loses about 272,339 km² of territory.
- Central African Republic gains about 123,015 km² of territory.
- Chad gains about 50,915 km² of territory.
- Republic of the Congo gains about 81,462 km² of territory.
- France gains about 15,734 km² of territory.
- Gabon gains about 34,048 km² of territory.
- German Togoland loses about 57,094 km² of territory.
- Germany loses about 65,329 km² of territory.
- Poland gains about 126,369 km² of territory in 2 separate changes during the year.
- Austria loses about 127,987 km² of territory.
- Hungary loses about 12,748 km² of territory.
- Italy gains about 15,398 km² of territory.
- Romania gains about 20,435 km² of territory in 2 separate changes during the year.
- Yugoslavia gains about 33,970 km² of territory.
- Algeria loses about 124,280 km² of territory.
- Libya gains about 124,280 km² of territory.
- Bulgaria loses about 15,903 km² of territory.
- Greece gains about 8,216 km² of territory.
Named in the source
Countries, territories, and regions mapped in 1919
Usable source labels can mix states, empires, dependencies, cultural regions, and other mapped entities. Wording follows the dataset rather than forcing every shape into a modern-country category.
- Distinct named labels
- 162
- Unlabeled geometries
- 0
Independent states (63)
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Argentina
- Australia
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Bulgaria
- Canada
- Chile
- China
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Czechoslovakia
- Denmark
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Estonia
- Ethiopia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- Hungary
- Iran (Persia)
- Italy
- Japan
- Latvia
- Liberia
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Mexico
- Nepal
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- Norway
- Oman
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Russia
- South Africa
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Thailand
- Tibet
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
- Yemen
- Yugoslavia
Colonies and dependent territories (99)
- United Kingdom (44)
- Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bhutan, Botswana, British Cameroons, British Somaliland, Brunei, Cyprus, Egypt, Federated Malay States, Fiji, Gambia, German Togoland, Ghana, Guyana, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Maldives, Malta, Mauritius, Newfoundland, Nigeria, Territory of Papua, Qatar, North Borneo, Sarawak, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Straits Settlements, Sudan, Eswatini, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Unfederated Malay States, United Arab Emirates, Zambia, Zanzibar, Zimbabwe
- France (27)
- Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon, Guadeloupe, Guinea, Laos, Madagascar, Mali, Martinique, Mauritania, Morocco, New Caledonia and Dependencies, Niger, Reunion, Senegal, Tunisia, Vietnam
- Portugal (5)
- Angola, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique
- United States (5)
- Alaska, Haiti, Hawaii, Philippines, Puerto Rico
- Japan (3)
- Korea (until 1945), Southern Sakhalin Island, Taiwan
- Spain (3)
- Equatorial Guinea, Spanish Morocco, Spanish West Africa
- Russia (2)
- Bokhara, Khiva
- Belgium (1)
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- League of Nations (1)
- Danzig
- South Africa (1)
- Namibia
Precision in the source
Not every border deserves the same confidence
Precision is inherited from the dataset when available. It describes how the line was encoded, not the overall certainty of every historical claim inside the polygon.
- Determined by international law
- 162
These precision categories cover all mapped geometries. Label coverage is reported separately above, so the two sets of counts should not be added together.
Source, license, and download
Sovereign-border dataset of independent states and colonies, dated to the day. It fills every year since 1886 in which state borders changed and covers 2011 through 2023 annually. It does not code wartime occupation. Coverage: Independent states and dependent territories, 1886–2023; each frame shows borders on 1 July
Reuse terms: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Check the original project for full attribution and reuse requirements.