35 countries
Europe in 1989
Europe at the end of the Cold War
Europe in 1989, before the fall of the Berlin Wall: the Iron Curtain still divided the continent. Within a few years the two Germanys would unite, and the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia would break up.
- Germany was split in two: the Federal Republic (capital: Bonn) and the Democratic Republic (capital: East Berlin).
- Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova were republics of the Soviet Union.
- Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo and North Macedonia made up Yugoslavia.
- Czechia and Slovakia were one country: Czechoslovakia.
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 1989
- On the map
- 35 countries · 6 are so small they show as a dot (complete level)
- Northernmost capital
- Reykjavík (Iceland)
- Southernmost capital
- Nicosia (Cyprus)
- Most neighbours
- West Germany: 9
- No land border with another country on the map
- Cyprus, Iceland, and Malta
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The countries of Europe in 1989
No flags or capitals: those are the answers!
- Albania
- Andorra
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Cyprus
- Czechoslovakia
- Denmark
- East Germany
- Finland
- France
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Liechtenstein
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Monaco
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- San Marino
- Soviet Union
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
- Vatican City
- West Germany
- Yugoslavia