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English: World empires and colonies in 1914, just before the First World War.

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Date

27 July 2010

Source

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Author

Andrew0921

British Empire

France

Spain

Portugal

Netherlands

German Empire

Ottoman

Belgium

Russia

Japan

Austria-Hungary

Denmark

Norway

United States of America

Italy

Independent/other countries

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	09:28, 8 November 2021	1,522 × 628 (45 KB)	Randomastwritter	jubaland
	00:00, 14 April 2021	1,522 × 628 (45 KB)	Offa29	Fixed Togoland colour
	18:57, 24 April 2020	1,522 × 628 (45 KB)	The-	Norwegian flag
	17:08, 24 April 2020	1,522 × 628 (45 KB)	The-	If an old map with wrongly drawn borders is replaced with a better map wth a minor colour error, then fix that minor colour error. Don't just blithely revert to the bad old map.
	21:52, 17 March 2020	1,474 × 620 (36 KB)	Makkkkus	Replaced the Swedish-Norwegian union flag with the Norwegian flag.
	19:25, 13 March 2020	1,474 × 620 (22 KB)	Morris-frank	The new version introduced a big regression (coloring spain in the color of italy), also it did not contribute anything useful.
	21:49, 14 August 2019	1,522 × 628 (45 KB)	The-	More accurate map
	12:47, 5 July 2016	1,474 × 620 (22 KB)	Maproom	Removed borders between provinces of Australia, as requested at /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Graphics_Lab/Map_workshop#FIFA_World_Cup_Maps_-_Colonial_Boundaries , because it had been united into a single dominion before 1914.
	00:00, 26 December 2010	1,474 × 620 (33 KB)	Quigley	by 1914, Qing Dynasty had collapsed and Republic of China established
	13:56, 22 November 2010	1,474 × 620 (20 KB)	AnonMoos	cropping margins, increasing PNG compression