193 countries
How it was drawn
Pick a country and watch its borders take shape on the globe, chapter by chapter, from its first frontiers to today's map.
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- FranceCeltic Gaul became a Roman province, then a Frankish kingdom, then a royal domain that grew county by county for eight hundred years until it filled the hexagon.
- JapanA court state on the main islands that took centuries to reach the far north, built an empire across Asia in fifty years, and lost it in one war.
- BrazilA line drawn in Europe in 1494 gave Portugal a strip of coast. Settlers, gold hunters and diplomats pushed it west until it covered half a continent.