PastlasHistorical atlas

Year

The world in 1922

In 1922 the atlas holds 410 states standing across 6 regions. 40 things began that year - Hafnium, Ulysses and Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic among them - and 24 ended; 64 people were born and 52 died.

Only what Wikidata dates to the year is counted here; a thing dated to its decade is on the 1920s page, and to its century on the 20th century.

What began in 1922

By kind, the best known first; a war or a state is listed in the year it began.

States 9

Wars and battles 8

Regime change 3

Unrest and atrocity 1

Treaties 7

Works and ideas 12

and 2 more in the atlas.

What ended in 1922

States that fell or were replaced, and wars and other things that ran past the year they began.

States 11

and 1 more in the atlas.

Wars and battles 4

Unrest and atrocity 5

Famine and plague 3

Treaties 1

Born and died

By how many Wikipedias write about them.

Born in 1922 64

and 48 more in the atlas.

Died in 1922 52

and 36 more in the atlas.

Standing in 1922

The states the atlas holds as standing that year, by region, the best known first, with who held the highest office where the record dates it.

Europe: 76 statesEurope76Middle East and North Africa: 60 statesMiddle East and North Africa60Sub-Saharan Africa: 26 statesSub-Saharan Africa26South Asia: 156 statesSouth Asia156East and Southeast Asia: 50 statesEast and Southeast Asia50Americas and Oceania: 36 statesAmericas and Oceania36Location unknown: 6 statesLocation unknown6

Europe76 states

and 66 more; every state of Europe.

Middle East and North Africa60 states

and 50 more; every state of Middle East and North Africa.

Sub-Saharan Africa26 states

and 16 more; every state of Sub-Saharan Africa.

South Asia156 states

and 146 more; every state of South Asia.

East and Southeast Asia50 states

and 40 more; every state of East and Southeast Asia.

Americas and Oceania36 states

and 26 more; every state of Americas and Oceania.

Location unknown6 states

Open in the atlas

  • On the timeline, 1897 – 1947: every state, war and life of 1922 and the years either side, region by region.
  • On the map in 1922: the borders of the year, its cities under their names of the year, and what happened where.

Wikidata (CC0) · data built 2026-10-07 · Pastlas v2.13.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.