52 countries
Map of Europe in 1815
Europe after the Congress of Vienna
Europe in 1815, after Napoleon's defeat: the Congress of Vienna redrew the map of the continent and gave back their thrones to many of the dynasties France had deposed. France went back to its borders of 1790.
- There was no Germany: the German Confederation joined 39 states, kingdoms, duchies, principalities and free cities, under Austria's presidency.
- Prussia stretched in two parts from the Rhine to the Niemen; in 1815 it gained the Rhineland, Westphalia, Swedish Pomerania and nearly half of Saxony.
- Italy was divided: the Kingdom of Sardinia (Piedmont, Savoy, Nice and Genoa), Lombardy–Venetia (Austrian), the duchies of Parma, Modena and Lucca, Tuscany, the Papal States and the Two Sicilies.
- Poland was a kingdom whose king was the Russian tsar, and Kraków a free city. Belgium and the Netherlands were one kingdom, and Norway was united with Sweden.
- Greece, Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria did not exist yet as states: the Balkans were Ottoman, and Wallachia and Moldavia self-governing principalities under the Sultan. The Thuringian states and the Anhalt duchies are drawn together and the small German states' enclaves are left out: those borders are approximate. The population figures are estimates of the time: the quiz only uses them to compare.
How it is made: the coasts are today's, and the borders follow today's divisions where they match those of the time and, where they do not, lines drawn by hand, good to about 10 km. Shapes: Natural Earth (public domain). Compare with today's Europe →
Facts: the map of Europe in 1815
- On the map
- 52 countries · 27 are so small they show as a dot (complete level)
- Largest country
- Russian Empire (≈ 17,500,000 km²)
- Smallest country
- Monaco (≈ 2 km²)
- Most populous country
- Russian Empire (≈ 45,000,000 people)
- Least populous country
- Andorra (≈ 4,000 people)
- Northernmost capital
- Saint Petersburg (Russian Empire)
- Southernmost capital
- Lisbon (Kingdom of Portugal)
- Most neighbours
- Kingdom of Prussia: 22
- No land border with another country on the map
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Fun facts: Map of Europe in 1815
- The Final Act of the Congress of Vienna was signed on 9 June 1815, nine days before the Battle of Waterloo.
- The German Confederation had 39 members, among them four free cities: Frankfurt, Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck.
- Tsar Alexander I of Russia was also King of Poland.
- Kraków was a free city until 1846, when Austria annexed it.
- The King of the United Kingdom was also King of Hanover until 1837.
- Belgium broke away from the Netherlands in the revolution of 1830.
- Norway had been Danish until 1814, when it passed to the King of Sweden.
- Napoleon spent his last years on the island of Saint Helena, where he died in 1821.
Test yourself
Which was the largest country of Europe in 1815?
Russian Empire.
Which was the most populous country of Europe in 1815?
Russian Empire.
Which was the smallest country of Europe in 1815?
Monaco.
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The countries on the map of Europe in 1815, and what they are today
Today's countries that cover a good part of its land, largest share first.
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| Country | Capital | Today part of |
|---|---|---|
| Andorra | Andorra la Vella | Andorra |
| Anhalt duchies | Dessau, Köthen and Bernburg | Germany |
| Austrian Empire | Vienna | Romania, Hungary, Austria, Czechia, Ukraine, Italy, Croatia, Slovakia, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia |
| Bremen | Bremen | Germany |
| Denmark | Copenhagen | Iceland, Denmark, Germany |
| Duchy of Brunswick | Brunswick | Germany |
| Duchy of Lucca | Lucca | Italy |
| Duchy of Modena | Modena | Italy |
| Duchy of Nassau | Wiesbaden | Germany |
| Duchy of Parma | Parma | Italy |
| Electorate of Hesse | Kassel | Germany |
| Frankfurt | Frankfurt | Germany |
| Free City of Kraków | Kraków | Poland |
| Grand Duchy of Baden | Karlsruhe | Germany |
| Grand Duchy of Hesse | Darmstadt | Germany |
| Grand Duchy of Luxembourg | Luxembourg | Belgium, Luxembourg |
| Grand Duchy of Oldenburg | Oldenburg | Germany |
| Grand Duchy of Tuscany | Florence | Italy |
| Hamburg | Hamburg | Germany |
| Hohenzollern | Sigmaringen and Hechingen | Germany |
| Ionian Islands | Corfu | Greece |
| Kingdom of Bavaria | Munich | Germany |
| Kingdom of France | Paris | France |
| Kingdom of Hanover | Hanover | Germany |
| Kingdom of Norway | Christiania (Oslo) | Norway |
| Kingdom of Poland | Warsaw | Poland |
| Kingdom of Portugal | Lisbon | Portugal |
| Kingdom of Prussia | Berlin | Poland, Germany, Russia |
| Kingdom of Sardinia | Turin | Italy, France |
| Kingdom of Saxony | Dresden | Germany |
| Kingdom of Spain | Madrid | Spain |
| Kingdom of Sweden | Stockholm | Sweden |
| Kingdom of the Two Sicilies | Naples | Italy |
| Kingdom of Württemberg | Stuttgart | Germany |
| Liechtenstein | Vaduz | Liechtenstein |
| Lippe | Detmold | Germany |
| Lübeck | Lübeck | Germany |
| Mecklenburg-Schwerin | Schwerin | Germany |
| Mecklenburg-Strelitz | Neustrelitz | Germany |
| Moldavia | Iași | Romania |
| Monaco | Monaco | Monaco |
| Ottoman Empire | Constantinople | Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, North Macedonia, Romania, Montenegro, Kosovo, Cyprus |
| Papal States | Rome | Italy |
| Russian Empire | Saint Petersburg | Russia, Ukraine, Finland, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Moldova, Poland |
| San Marino | San Marino | San Marino |
| Schaumburg-Lippe | Bückeburg | Germany |
| Switzerland | Bern | Switzerland |
| Thuringian states | Weimar, Gotha, Meiningen and others | Germany |
| United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | London | United Kingdom, Ireland |
| United Kingdom of the Netherlands | Amsterdam | Netherlands, Belgium |
| Waldeck | Arolsen | Germany |
| Wallachia | Bucharest | Romania |