PastlasHistorical atlas

Year

The world in 2020

In 2020 the atlas holds 218 states standing across 6 regions. 288 things began that year - Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, COVID-19 pandemic in Italy and 2020–2021 Belarusian protests among them - and 15 ended; 0 people were born and 98 died.

Only what Wikidata dates to the year is counted here; a thing dated to its decade is on the 2020s page, and to its century on the 21st century.

What began in 2020

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

Wars and battles 15

and 5 more in the atlas.

Regime change 1

Unrest and atrocity 22

and 12 more in the atlas.

Famine and plague 230

and 220 more in the atlas.

Natural disasters 15

and 5 more in the atlas.

Treaties 5

What ended in 2020

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

States 6

Wars and battles 7

Unrest and atrocity 2

Born and died

By how many Wikipedias write about them.

Died in 2020 98

and 82 more in the atlas.

Standing in 2020

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: 55 statesEurope55Middle East and North Africa: 40 statesMiddle East and North Africa40Sub-Saharan Africa: 41 statesSub-Saharan Africa41South Asia: 14 statesSouth Asia14East and Southeast Asia: 19 statesEast and Southeast Asia19Americas and Oceania: 49 statesAmericas and Oceania49

Europe55 states

and 45 more; every state of Europe.

Middle East and North Africa40 states

and 30 more; every state of Middle East and North Africa.

Sub-Saharan Africa41 states

and 31 more; every state of Sub-Saharan Africa.

South Asia14 states

and 4 more; every state of South Asia.

East and Southeast Asia19 states

and 9 more; every state of East and Southeast Asia.

Americas and Oceania49 states

and 39 more; every state of Americas and Oceania.

Open in the atlas

  • On the timeline, 1995 – 2045: every state, war and life of 2020 and the years either side, region by region.
  • On the map in 2020: 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.