Map of Europe, 1946–1949

On 1 July of every year from 1946 to 1949, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 38 names within Europe. The borders 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.

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.

NameDrawn area in view (km²)
Soviet Union3,080,000
Turkey781,000
France548,000
Francoist Spain499,000
Sweden444,000
Finland334,000
Norway322,000
Poland311,000
Italy301,000
Algeria (France)256,000
Yugoslavia (SFRY)255,000
Germany (Western Allies)248,000
United Kingdom246,000
Romania237,000
Syria145,000
Greece132,000
Iraq118,000
Czechoslovakia112,000
Bulgaria111,000
Germany (USSR)109,000
Hungary108,000
Iceland103,000
Portugal88,900
Austria83,700
Tunisia (France)77,400
Ireland70,000
Denmark68,600
Switzerland41,400
Morocco (France)37,800
Netherlands35,000
Belgium30,500
Albania28,700
Spanish Morocco24,300
Imperial State of Iran15,200
Cyprus9,300
Lebanon4,860
Luxembourg2,570
Malta292

Open the map on 1 July of

1946 1947 1948 1949

What changed since 1945

Now drawn

Italy, Yugoslavia (SFRY), Syria, Hungary

No longer drawn

Kingdom of Italy, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Syria (France), Kingdom of Hungary

The same date elsewhere

World map · 1946 Map of the Middle East · 1946 Map of Africa · 1946 Map of South Asia · 1939–1947 Map of East Asia · 1946 Map of Southeast Asia · 1946 Map of Central Asia · 1933–1947 Map of North America · 1941–1948 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1924–1962 Map of South America · 1946–1962 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.

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