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World map in AD 1990

215 polities have borders on the map in AD 1990.

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AD 1990 · States and empires in AD 1990 (215)

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Recorded coverage compared with AD 1980

Newly covered by recorded outlines (28): Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Belize, Bermuda, British Dependent Territories, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Czech and Slovak Federative Republic, Falkland Islands, Federal Military Government of Nigeria, Fiji, Finland, Germany, Guinea, Hungary, Israeli administration of Gaza, Kingdom of Romania, Lithuania, Micronesia, Myanmar, Namibia, Palau, Republic of Serbia, Saint Helena and Dependencies, Saint Kitts and Nevis, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Yemen

Not covered by recorded outlines (23): Colony of Bermuda, Saint Helena Crown Colony, Falkland Islands Dependencies, British Protectorate of Brunei, Soviet Union, Lithuanian SSR, People's Republic of Bulgaria, Burma, East Germany, Hungarian People's Republic, West Berlin, West Germany, Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, Upper Volta, Colony of Antigua and Barbuda, North Yemen, Socialist Republic of Romania, South Yemen, Dominion of Fiji, British Belize, People's Revolutionary Republic of Guinea, Second Nigerian Republic, Saint Christopher and Nevis

States and empires in AD 1990

Battles, AD 1990

Armed conflict, AD 1990

726 recorded conflict events with 90,405 deaths (best estimate), from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program.

Volcanic eruptions (VEI ≥ 4), AD 1990

Significant earthquakes, AD 1990

The 20 strongest of 51.

7 witnessed meteorite falls were recorded in AD 1990.

Sources

Borders: OpenHistoricalMap contributors (CC0 1.0). Battles: Wikidata (CC0 1.0). Eruptions: Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program. Earthquakes: NOAA NCEI. Conflict events: UCDP GED (CC BY 4.0). Meteorites: NASA/Meteoritical Society. Full citations.

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