Map of Europe in 1940
On 1 July 1940, IntMap’s historical map draws 38 names within Europe. The borders for this date come from CShapes 2.0 (day by day), then Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (by year) — each drawn only where the records before it are silent. The map also draws 2 outlines here that the source gives no name.
Names on the map
As the map labels them, largest first by the area of the outline drawn inside this view. Areas are of the drawn outline, rounded, and approximate.
| Name | Drawn area in view (km²) |
|---|---|
| Soviet Union | 2,880,000 |
| Turkey | 781,000 |
| French Third Republic | 548,000 |
| Francoist Spain | 499,000 |
| Nazi Germany | 498,000 |
| Sweden | 444,000 |
| Poland | 387,000 |
| Finland | 334,000 |
| Norway | 322,000 |
| Kingdom of Italy | 311,000 |
| Algeria (France) | 256,000 |
| Kingdom of Yugoslavia | 247,000 |
| United Kingdom | 246,000 |
| Romania | 245,000 |
| Syria (France) | 145,000 |
| Greece | 132,000 |
| Kingdom of Hungary | 121,000 |
| Iraq | 118,000 |
| Bulgaria | 103,000 |
| Iceland (Denmark) | 103,000 |
| Portugal | 88,900 |
| Czechoslovakia | 87,800 |
| Austria | 83,700 |
| Tunisia (France) | 77,400 |
| Ireland | 70,000 |
| Denmark | 44,600 |
| Switzerland | 41,400 |
| Morocco (France) | 37,800 |
| Netherlands | 35,000 |
| Belgium | 30,500 |
| Albania | 28,700 |
| Spanish Morocco | 24,300 |
| Greenland | 23,700 |
| Imperial State of Iran | 15,200 |
| Cyprus | 9,300 |
| Lebanon (France) | 4,860 |
| Luxembourg | 2,570 |
| Malta | 292 |
What changed since 1939
Now drawn
none
No longer drawn
Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Danzig
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1940 Map of the Middle East · 1937–1940 Map of Africa · 1939–1940 Map of South Asia · 1939–1947 Map of East Asia · 1939–1945 Map of Southeast Asia · 1939–1945 Map of Central Asia · 1933–1947 Map of North America · 1924–1940 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1924–1962 Map of South America · 1932–1945 Map of Oceania · 1924–1948
Source and method
Borders and names: CShapes 2.0 (Schvitz et al. 2022, icr.ethz.ch/data/cshapes) · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 + Cliopatria v0.2.1 (Seshat Global History Databank, github.com/Seshat-Global-History-Databank/cliopatria) · CC BY 4.0 · adapted by IntMap: simplified, BC years made astronomical, and the ground OpenHistoricalMap (1689–1885, and from 1886 where CShapes is silent) and CShapes (1886–2019) state removed on their own dates.
Listed: every name whose outline IntMap draws inside 25°W–45°E, 34°N–72°N on this date, with the name the map writes on it. The list is worked out when the site is built, from the same records and the same code the map uses, so it says what the map shows — not more. Names are the source’s own, translated where the source or IntMap’s name table has a translation.