· v2.5.0
Nearly twice as many states, and the rulers who headed them
- Map
- Rulers and reigns
- Data and accuracy
The atlas now holds every state its own articles link to that Wikipedia writes up in five languages or more - from the Kingdom of Sardinia and Afsharid Iran to the Chola Empire, the Neo-Inca State and Tiwanaku - each dated, placed and given its flag as every other state is. Their rulers came with them: anyone who headed a state of the atlas and has an article in five languages is now an entry of their own.
- About 1,470 states joined, among them the Savoyard Kingdom of Sardinia, Nanyue, the Ghurids, the Burgundian State and dozens of Indian princely states; they carry their flag or arms where the record holds one, and 240 of them have their ground measured from the borders dataset.
- A new state the map draws from its own borders, but whose record gives it no place, is filed in the region where those borders lie rather than under Location unknown, and its panel says so.
- The Kingdom of Poland is one entry, not two, and what happened inside its borders belongs to the kingdom of the year: the Piast kingdom to 1385, the Jagiellonian after. The Ahom dynasty and the Ahom kingdom are likewise one.
- Events and people inside the new states are now theirs: the Battle of Badr belongs to the first Islamic state at Medina rather than to a Nubian kingdom, and the battles of Sekigahara and Nagashino to Japan rather than Korea. Where the atlas has only a guess, it still says it is a guess.
- About 2,200 more rulers are entries of their own, hosted by the state they ruled, with how they died, their families and their portraits where the record holds them; 1,113 states now have a line of rulers, where 823 did.
- England's overseas possessions now run to 1707, when they became the British Empire's; they had been drawn as a single year.
- Every change in a country's form of rule now begins a new entry, as it already did for India and Italy: Ghana is the Dominion of Ghana until the republic of 1960, Cuba the Republic of Cuba until 1959, and Burma the Union of Burma, then the Socialist Republic, then Myanmar after the coup of 1988 - on the timeline and on the map. Occupations and rival governments are drawn beside the state they claimed.
- The Slavic tribes' lands are now in the Tribes & ethnic groups layer with the other peoples rather than among the states' borders, and a tribe is never offered as the nearest state to an event.
- Crimea is shown as part of Ukraine in every year. The borders dataset drew it inside Russia from 2014; the map, and everything the atlas places by borders, now follow Ukraine's internationally recognised borders, and an event in Crimea or in the regions occupied since 2022 belongs to Ukraine, whatever country the record gives it.
- Clicking a territory on the map never opens a person or an event any more: where the borders dataset filed the land under a ruler, it opens the state that ruler held, or a card that names the ruler and opens the entry.
- A territory the atlas holds no entry for in those years no longer shows a made-up history of when its borders were mapped: it says which entry the land is filed under and opens it - Poland's borders now open Mieszko's Civitas Schinesghe, the Piast kingdom or the Jagiellonian one, by the year.
- People are in the atlas for ruling, or for working in a field history records - politics, war, religion, nobility, culture, science. Culture means what a person made: performers - singers, actors, dancers - however famous, athletes and businessmen are no longer on the map, while a composer who also sang, like Artemy Vedel, stays. Nobody is filed under politics for want of a profession.
- Detail - Key, More, Everything - now thins the map as it thins the timeline: Key shows the best-known people and events of the year, Everything all of them.
- Everyone who headed a state is filed as a ruler, whatever else they were: Mykhailo Hrushevsky, head of the Ukrainian People's Republic, no longer reads as a politician.
- On the timeline a person's portrait sits on the start of their lifeline again, rather than hanging below it.