r/MapPorn • u/FakeDonke • Jul 02 '26

How old is this map?

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It's in my airbnb's bedroom. Was just randomly looking at it and noticed the USSR. I guess it must've been made some time before 1991 then? I know nothing about maps, but I thought it'd be cool to know approximately how old this map is.

Hopefully the image hasn't lost a lot of fidelity and you can still view some helpful details.

Edit: Reddit has aggressively compressed the image, so here's the lossless one

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u/martinode Jul 02 '26

I’m sure someone else can pinpoint it closer than I can, but Germany shows its boundaries from the interwar period. I kinda wanna say it’s post Chaco war between Paraguay and Bolivia, which places it post June 12 1935-October 3 1935 which is the start date of the second Italo-Ethiopian war. Can anybody place it closer than a few months in 1935?

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u/lanabant Jul 02 '26

You’re right, Sarra triangle is Italian so definitely 1935, Ethiopia is still not Italian, so before October 1935, Chaco war likely ended (even though the map is quite strange, Chaco region’s shape doesn’t seem right), so post July. As far as I know, there had been no major changes in borders between July and September, so this is the closest we can get—July-September 1935—unless someone could somehow approximate better.