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Year

The world in 2005

In 2005 the atlas holds 251 states standing across 6 regions. 38 things began that year - 136472 Makemake, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Nix among them - and 11 ended; 1 person was born and 65 died.

Only what Wikidata dates to the year is counted here; a thing dated to its decade is on the 2000s page, and to its century on the 21st century.

What began in 2005

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

States 1

Wars and battles 7

Regime change 3

Unrest and atrocity 9

Natural disasters 4

Treaties 5

Works and ideas 9

What ended in 2005

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

States 4

Wars and battles 4

Unrest and atrocity 3

Born and died

By how many Wikipedias write about them.

Born in 2005 1

Died in 2005 65

and 49 more in the atlas.

Standing in 2005

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: 59 statesEurope59Middle East and North Africa: 41 statesMiddle East and North Africa41Sub-Saharan Africa: 44 statesSub-Saharan Africa44South Asia: 27 statesSouth Asia27East and Southeast Asia: 29 statesEast and Southeast Asia29Americas and Oceania: 51 statesAmericas and Oceania51

Europe59 states

and 49 more; every state of Europe.

Middle East and North Africa41 states

and 31 more; every state of Middle East and North Africa.

Sub-Saharan Africa44 states

and 34 more; every state of Sub-Saharan Africa.

South Asia27 states

and 17 more; every state of South Asia.

East and Southeast Asia29 states

and 19 more; every state of East and Southeast Asia.

Americas and Oceania51 states

and 41 more; every state of Americas and Oceania.

Open in the atlas

  • On the timeline, 1980 – 2030: every state, war and life of 2005 and the years either side, region by region.
  • On the map in 2005: 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.