File:Colonisation 1938.png

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Map of major world powers by year, derived from public domain animated map on wikipedia.

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Date

22 March 2007

Source

public domain animated map by ArdadN here

Author

ArdadN

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	15:12, 12 May 2019	1,425 × 625 (52 KB)	The-	Map with borders accurate to 1938. Japan was a colonial empire in 1938 and Turkey was not. Papua and New Guinea were both under Australian administration, so if Australia is not shown as British then neither should they. Ditto with the New Zealand-administered Pacific islands.
	16:12, 16 July 2016	1,425 × 625 (37 KB)	Maproom	Changed borders and colors to show things as in 1938, in accordance with request at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Graphics_Lab/Map_workshop#Colonialism_in_1938
	13:39, 28 July 2012	1,425 × 625 (67 KB)	Faunas	I corrected 2 mistakes on São Tomé e Principe and the island of Annobon.
	13:22, 15 February 2012	1,425 × 625 (67 KB)	Kintetsubuffalo	Reverted to version as of 10:41, 22 March 2007
	08:45, 3 December 2011	1,425 × 625 (67 KB)	23prootie~commonswiki	The Philippine Commonwealth was already independentin 1935.
	10:41, 22 March 2007	1,425 × 625 (67 KB)	Roke~commonswiki	{{Information \|Description=Map of major world powers by year, derived from public domain animated map on wikipedia. {{Maps of world history}} As the orriginal licence of the animation was Public Domain, this image which has been derived from it is too: {