Historical world map · 1938
World map in 1938
A reconstruction on the eve of the Second World War in Europe. This sourced reconstruction contains 254 mapped geometries. 171 carry usable source labels; 79 are unlabeled in the original data.
- Mapped shapes
- 254
- Named labels
- 171
- Geometry points
- 40,503
- Data source
- Historical Basemaps borders
Interactive world map for 1938
Named in the source
Countries, territories, and regions mapped in 1938
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.
- Named labels
- 171
- Unlabeled shapes
- 79
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria (France)
- American Samoa
- Andorra
- Angola (Portugal)
- Anguilla
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Australia
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belgian Congo
- Belgium
- Belize
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Botswana
- Brazil
- British Raj
- British Somaliland
- Brunei
- Bulgaria
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Canada
- Ceylon
- Chile
- Chinese warlords
- Cochin China
- Colombia
- Congo (France)
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Czechoslovakia
- Denmark
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Dominion of Newfoundland
- Dutch East Indies
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Emirate of Bin Shal'an
- Empire of Japan
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea (Italy)
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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
- 254
- Unlabeled source geometries
- 79
Source, license, and download
Historical boundary snapshots for countries and cultural regions, used through 2010. Coverage: 53 available snapshots from prehistory through 2010
Reuse terms: GPL-3.0 repository license. Check the original project for full attribution and reuse requirements.