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Countries of Europe before World War II with a Map

With the help of a map, can you name all the countries of Europe on August 31st 1939?
Includes nominally independent entities.
Quiz by Dekkie
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Last updated: December 23, 2024
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First submittedJune 18, 2020
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Country
Andorra
Belgium
Bulgaria
Danzig
Denmark
Country
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Country
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Country
Italy
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Country
Luxembourg
Monaco
Netherlands
Norway
Country
Poland
Portugal
Romania
San Marino
Country
Slovakia
Soviet Union
Spain
Sweden
Country
Switzerland
United Kingdom
Vatican City
Yugoslavia
45 Comments
+11
Level 54
Jun 18, 2020
How do you make maps like this?
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Level 48
May 19, 2021
SVG
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Level 52
Aug 8, 2024
Follow this guide with Inkscape, I made tons of maps with it it's really good https://www.jetpunk.com/svg-guide/
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Level 70
Sep 22, 2020
Nice quiz, Iceland was part of Denmark at the beginning of the War though. It took control of its internal affairs in 1940 after Germany took Denmark and became formally independent only on 17 June 1944.
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Level 60
Nov 29, 2020
Not quite. Iceland gained independence in 1918. However, it was freely associated with Denmark and was a constitutional monarchy which recognized the Danish Royals until 1944.
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Level 27
Sep 27, 2020
i almost forget danzig
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Level 44
Dec 14, 2020
Great quiz, nominated my man
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Level 72
Jun 12, 2021
I love this community that 75% get Danzig
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Level 53
Oct 7, 2021
I might or not have forgot the USSR...

I don't want to talk about it

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Level 42
Mar 25, 2022
Which country is the small grey part in Morocco?
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Level 55
Mar 25, 2022
The Tangier International Zone.
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Level 46
May 16, 2022
got 100%
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Level 47
Aug 6, 2022
So Finland lost land to Norway?
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Level 55
Aug 6, 2022
They lost to the Karelia, Salla and Petsamo to the USSR. The latter gave the Soviets a land border with Norway. Porkkala was also temporarily ceded until it was returned to Finland in 1956.
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Level 47
Aug 6, 2022
Cool, thank you!
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Level 63
Aug 31, 2023
Surprisingly easy with the main challenge (for those familiar with all countries) being Gdansk.
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Level 59
Aug 2, 2024
Exactly -- being Polish doesn't hurt. I tried "danzing", "danzig" then "Free city of Danzing" etc, until I said f-it, gdansk and hurray!
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Level 49
Apr 16, 2024
more people got liechtenstein than slovakia at the time of commenting lol.
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Level 72
May 1, 2024
Ah, only on Jetpunk..
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Level 78
Aug 2, 2024
It got forgotten because normally, people think of it after typing in Czechia, but in this quiz, there is no Czechia, only Böhmen und Mähren.
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Level 73
Aug 2, 2024
Or, if you don’t want any Czechs spitting feathers: Čechy a Morava.
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Level 26
Jun 14, 2024
I feel like this is a little too much time ngl
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Level 28
Jun 20, 2024
i only know danzing because i play too much hoi4
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Level 88
Aug 3, 2024
or danz danz revolution
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Level 39
Jul 24, 2024
Amazing! Nominated!
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Level 39
Jul 29, 2024
Congratulations on the feature!
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Level 55
Jul 29, 2024
Thanks!
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Level 86
Jul 30, 2024
I only knew of Danzig through seeing some old stamps in a collection. Very interesting history.
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Level 55
Aug 2, 2024
What's interesting is that the Free City had once existed prior to 1920. Danzig was also a Napoleonic client state between 1807 and 1814.
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Level 19
Aug 2, 2024
Had everythings but didn't knew about danzig :(
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Level 52
Aug 2, 2024
I think Iceland won independence from Denmark in 1944, so before WWII it wasn't independent!
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Level 55
Aug 2, 2024
Iceland became a sovereign state in personal union with Denmark on December 1st 1918, sharing the same monarch until June 17th 1944.
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Level 78
Aug 2, 2024
Wow removing Austria really threw me on the placement of Liechtenstein...I thought it'd be all the way at the Eastern end
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Level 79
Aug 2, 2024
East end of Switzerland, west end of Austria. East end of Austria is Hungary, which I remember because of the train wreck that used to be Austria-Hungary.
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Level 78
Aug 2, 2024
I tried to do it without looking at the map. I forgot Germany.
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Level 61
Aug 2, 2024
please accept the union of soviet socialist republics, its much shorter and there's surely a lot of ppl that tried to type this
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Level 55
Aug 2, 2024
Seems a bit silly to think the full official name would be "much shorter". Either way; no, sorry.
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Level 78
Aug 2, 2024
*Misses joke*
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Level 35
Aug 2, 2024
Cool Quiz! Can i do a german Version of this and try to get it featured in the german language?
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Level 55
Aug 2, 2024
Sure, go ahead.
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Level 57
Aug 2, 2024
Ok, microscopic and inconsequential nitpick: in 1939 very much the usual thing was to spell Rumania with a u rather than an o in English. Or sometimes with bouth. But relatively rarely just with the o. Which I unfortunately still do, wasting a precious second and a half or something
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Level 55
Aug 2, 2024
I actually knew about this, though mostly through old stamps or listings of flags from the 19th century. I will edit the quiz for this spelling to be allowed.
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Level 50
Dec 23, 2024
Vatican City is misspelled as “Vatican Ctiy”
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Level 55
Dec 23, 2024
Change pending. Thanks for letting me know.
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Level 24
Mar 24, 2025
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