36 countries
Europe in 1945
Europe at the end of the Second World War
Europe in the summer of 1945, after Germany's surrender: the Allies split its land into four occupation zones and Berlin into four sectors, and the borders in the east moved west.
- Germany had no government of its own: the Allies ran it, each in its zone. That is why the zones are left out of the capitals game.
- Poland lost its east to the Soviet Union and gained Silesia, Pomerania and the south of East Prussia.
- Königsberg and the north of East Prussia went to the Soviet Union, which had annexed the Baltic states.
- Austria and Czechoslovakia existed again; Italy kept Istria and the Dodecanese until the 1947 peace treaty.
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 1945
- On the map
- 36 countries · 6 are so small they show as a dot (complete level)
- Largest country
- Soviet Union (22,300,000 km²)
- Smallest country
- Vatican City (0.44 km²)
- Most populous country
- Soviet Union (170,000,000 people)
- Least populous country
- Vatican City (1,000 people)
- Northernmost capital
- Reykjavík (Iceland)
- Southernmost capital
- Athens (Greece)
- Most neighbours
- France: 9
- No land border with another country on the map
- Iceland
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The countries of Europe in 1945
No flags or capitals: those are the answers!
- Albania
- American occupation zone
- Andorra
- Austria
- Belgium
- Berlin (Allied sectors)
- British occupation zone
- Bulgaria
- Czechoslovakia
- Denmark
- Finland
- France
- French occupation zone
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Liechtenstein
- Luxembourg
- Monaco
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- San Marino
- Soviet occupation zone
- Soviet Union
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
- Vatican City
- Yugoslavia