Historical world map · 1945

World map in 1945

A postwar threshold snapshot before the main wave of twentieth-century decolonization. This sourced reconstruction contains 227 mapped geometries. 185 have source labels representing 183 distinct names; 42 have no usable source label.

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Mapped geometries: 227
Labeled geometries: 185
Distinct labels: 183
Data source: Historical Basemaps borders

Historical world map reconstruction showing mapped regions in 1945 — Static map preview for 1945
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Named in the source

Countries, territories, and regions mapped in 1945

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: 183
Unlabeled geometries: 42

Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
American Samoa
Andorra
Angola (Portugal)
Anguilla
Annam
Antarctica
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Bahamas
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bhutan
Bolivia
Botswana
Brazil
British Somaliland
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burma
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile
China
Cochin China
Colombia
Congo
Costa Rica
Cuba
Cyraneica (UK Lybia)
Czechoslovakia
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Dutch Guinea

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Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Fezzan (Frech Lybia)
Fiji
Finland
France
French Guiana
Gabon
Gambia, The
Germany (France)
Germany (Soviet)
Germany (UK)
Germany (USA)
Gold Coast
Greece
Grenada
Guadeloupe
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau (Portugal)
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Ivory Coast
Jamaica (UK)
Japan (USA)
Jordan
Kenya
Korea (USA)
Korea (USSR)
Kuwait
Laos
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Luxembourg
Madagascar (France)
Malaysia
Mali
Manchuria
Martinique (France)
Mauritania
Mexico
Mongolia
Montserrat
Morocco
Mozambique (Portugal)
Namibia
Nepal
Netherlands
Netherlands Antilles
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Niue
Northern Rhodesia
Norway
Nyasaland
Oman
Pakistan
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Qatar
Rapa Nui
Rhodesia
Romania
Rwanda
Saar Protectorate
Saint Barthelemy
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Martin
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
Southern Cameroon
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Taiwan
Tanzania, United Republic of
Thailand
Tibet
Togo
Tonga
Tonkin
Trinidad
Tripolitana (UK Lybia)
Tunisia
Turkey
Turks and Caicos Islands
Uganda
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
United States Virgin Islands
Uruguay
USSR
Venezuela
Wallis and Futuna Islands
Western Sahara
Xinjiang
Yemen
Yugoslavia
Zaire

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: 227

These precision categories cover all mapped geometries. Label coverage is reported separately above, so the two sets of counts should not be added together.

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Historical boundary snapshots for countries and cultural regions, used through 2010. Coverage: 53 available snapshots from prehistory through 2010

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Reuse terms: GPL-3.0 repository license. Check the original project for full attribution and reuse requirements.

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