36 countries
Europe in 1938
Europe between the wars
Europe at the start of 1938: the empires had fallen in 1918, and new countries such as Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and the Baltic states had been born from them. That same year Germany would annex Austria (in March) and the Sudetenland (in October).
- The Free City of Danzig (today Gdańsk) was neither German nor Polish.
- East Prussia, with Königsberg (today Kaliningrad), was German, cut off from the rest of the country by the Polish Corridor.
- Poland reached Wilno and Lwów (today Vilnius and Lviv), and Lithuania's capital was Kaunas.
- Romania included Bessarabia (today Moldova) and southern Dobruja; Italy, Istria and Zara.
- Spain was in the middle of its civil war, with two governments: that is why it is left out of the capitals game.
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 1938
- On the map
- 36 countries · 5 are so small they show as a dot (complete level)
- Northernmost capital
- Reykjavík (Iceland)
- Southernmost capital
- Athens (Greece)
- Most neighbours
- Germany: 11
- No land border with another country on the map
- Iceland
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The countries of Europe in 1938
No flags or capitals: those are the answers!
- Albania
- Andorra
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Czechoslovakia
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Free City of Danzig
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Latvia
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Monaco
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- San Marino
- Soviet Union
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
- Vatican City
- Yugoslavia