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All First-Level Subdivisions of Europe in 1914 on a Map

How many first-level subdivisions can you guess within each country in 1914, before the start of the First World War, with the help of a map?
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Subdivision borders in Albania, Montenegro, and Northern Epirus are estimated; borders in Germany are simplified
Vistula Land (Poland) de facto did not have any administrative purpose
Thanks to Dekkie and Anna for helping me find sources
Quiz by Vicky
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Albania
Berat
Dibër
Durrës
Elbasan
Mirdita
Shkodër
Vlorë
 
Andorra
Andorra la Vella
Canillo
Encamp
La Massana
Ordino
Sant Julià de Lòria
 
Austria-Hungary
Bosnia and
Herzegovina
Cisleithania
Lands of the Crown
of Saint Stephen
 
Belgium
Antwerp
Brabant
East Flanders
Hainaut
Liége
Limburg
Luxembourg
Namur
West Flanders
 
Bulgaria
Burgas
Gyumyurdjina
Kyustendil
Pleven
Plovdiv
Ruse
Shumen
Sofia
Stara Zagora
Strumica
Varna
Veliko Tarnovo
Vidin
Vratsa
 
Denmark
Aalborg
Aarhus
Bornholm
Copenhagen
Faroe Islands
Frederiksborg
Hjørring
Holbæk
Iceland
Maribo
Odense
Præstø
Randers
Ribe
Ringkøbing
Sorø
Svendborg
Thisted
Vejle
Viborg
 
France
Ain
Aisne
Allier
Alpes-Maritimes
Ardèche
Ardennes
Ariège
Arrondissement
subsistant du Haut-Rhin
Aube
Aude
Aveyron
Basses-Alpes
Basses-Pyrénées
Bouches-du-Rhône
Calvados
Cantal
Charente
Charente-Inférieure
Cher
Corrèze
Corsica
Côte-d'Or
Côtes-du-Nord
Creuse
Deux-Sèvres
Dordogne
Doubs
Drôme
Eure
Eure-et-Loir
Finistère
Gard
Gers
Gironde
Haute-Garonne
Haute-Loire
Haute-Marne
Haute-Saône
Haute-Savoie
Haute-Vienne
Hautes-Alpes
Hautes-Pyrénées
Hérault
Ille-et-Vilaine
Indre
Indre-et-Loire
Isère
Jura
Landes
Loir-et-Cher
Loire
Loire-Inférieure
Loiret
Lot
Lot-et-Garonne
Lozère
Maine-et-Loire
Manche
Marne
Mayenne
Meurthe-et-Moselle
Meuse
Morbihan
Nièvre
Nord
Oise
Orne
Pas-de-Calais
Puy-de-Dôme
Pyrénées Orientales
Rhône
Saône-et-Loire
Sarthe
Savoie
Seine
Seine-et-Marne
Seine-et-Oise
Seine-Inférieure
Somme
Tarn
Tarn-et-Garonne
Var
Vaucluse
Vendée
Vienne
Vosges
Yonne
Germany
Alsace-Lorraine
Anhalt
Baden
Bavaria
Bremen
Brunswick
Hamburg
Hesse
Lippe
Lübeck
Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Oldenburg
Prussia
Reuss-Gera
Reuss-Greiz
Saxe-Altenburg
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
Saxe-Meiningen
Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Saxony
Schaumburg-Lippe
Schwarzburg-
Rudolstadt
Schwarzburg-
Sondershausen
Waldeck-Pyrmont
Württemberg
 
Greece
Aegean Islands
Central Greece
Crete
Epirus
Ionian Islands
Macedonia
Mount Athos
Peloponnese
Thessaly
 
Italy
Abruzzo
Apulia
Calabria
Campania
Emilia
Euganean Venetia
Italian Islands
of the Aegean
Lazio
Liguria
Lombardy
Lucania
Marche
Piedmont
Sardinia
Sicily
Tuscany
Umbria
 
Liechtenstein
Balzers
Eschen
Gamprin
Mauren
Planken
Ruggell
Schaan
Schellenberg
Triesen
Triesenberg
Vaduz
 
Luxembourg
Diekirch
Grevenmacher
Luxembourg
Monaco
La Condamine
Monaco-Ville
Monte Carlo
 
Montenegro
Berane
Bijelo Polje
Brda
Durmitorska
Katun
Morača-Rovača
Nikšić
Peć
Pljevlja
Primorsko-Crmnica
Rijeka-Lješana
Vasojevići
Vukovar
Zeta
 
Netherlands
Brabant
Drenthe
Friesland
Gelderland
Groningen
Limburg
North Holland
Overijssel
South Holland
Utrecht
Zeeland
 
Northern Epirus
Argyrokastro
Korytsa
 
Norway
Akershus
Aust-Agder
Bergen
Buskerud
Finnmark
Hedmark
Hordaland
Møre og Romsdal
Nord-Trøndelag
Nordland
Oppland
Oslo
Østfold
Rogaland
Sogn og Fjordane
Sør-Trøndelag
Telemark
Troms
Vest-Agder
Vestfold
 
Ottoman Empire
Constantinople
Adrianople
 
Portugal
Angra do Heroísmo
Aveiro
Beja
Braga
Bragança
Castelo Branco
Coimbra
Évora
Faro
Guarda
Horta
Leiria
Lisbon
Ponta Delgada
Portalegre
Porto
Santarém
Viana do Castelo
Vila Real
Viseu
 
Romania
Argeș
Bacău
Botoșani
Brăila
Buzău
Caliacra
Constanța
Covurlui
Dâmbovița
Dolj
Dorohoi
Durostor
Fălciu
Gorj
Ialomița
Iași
Ilfov
Mehedinți
Muscel
Neamț
Olt
Prahova
Putna
Râmnicu Sărat
Roman
Romanați
Suceava
Tecuci
Teleorman
Tulcea
Tutova
Vâlcea
Vaslui
Vlașca
Russia
Arkhangelsk
Astrakhan
Bessarabia
Black Sea
Chernigov
Courland
Dagestan
Don Cossack Host
Estonia
Finland
Grodno
Kalisz
Kaluga
Kazan
Kharkov
Kherson
Kholm
Kielce
Kiev
Kostroma
Kovno
Kuban
Kursk
Livonia
Łomża
Lublin
Minsk
Mogilev
Moscow
Nizhny Novgorod
Novgorod
Olonets
Orenburg
Oryol
Penza
Perm
Piotrków
Płock
Podolia
Poltava
Pskov
Radom
Ryazan
Saint Petersburg
Samara
Saratov
Simbirsk
Smolensk
Stavropol
Suwałki
Tambov
Taurida
Terek
Tula
Tver
Ufa
Vilna
Vitebsk
Vladimir
Volhynia
Vologda
Voronezh
Vyatka
Warsaw
Yaroslavl
Yekaterinoslav
 
San Marino
Acquaviva
Borgo Maggiore
Chiesanuova
Domagnano
Faetano
Fiorentino
Montegiardino
San Marino
Serravalle
 
Serbia
Belgrade
Bitola
Čačak
Kavadarci
Kragujevac
Krajina
Kruševac
Kumanovo
Morava
Niš
Novi Pazar
Ohrid
Pirot
Podrinje
Požarevac
Prijepolje
Priština
Prizren
Rudnik
Skopje
Smederevo
Štip
Tetovo
Timok
Toplica
Užice
Valjevo
Vranje
Zvečan
Spain
Álava
Albacete
Alicante
Almería
Ávila
Badajoz
Barcelona
Biscay
Burgos
Cáceres
Cádiz
Castellón
Ciudad Real
Córdoba
Cuenca
Gerona
Granada
Guadalajara
Guipúzcoa
Huelva
Huesca
Jaén
La Coruña
León
Lérida
Logroño
Lugo
Madrid
Málaga
Murcia
Navarre
Orense
Oviedo
Palencia
Palma de Mallorca
Pontevedra
Salamanca
Santander
Segovia
Seville
Soria
Tarragona
Teruel
Toledo
Valencia
Valladolid
Zamora
Zaragoza
 
Sweden
Älvsborg
Blekinge
Gävleborg
Gothenburg and Bohus
Gotland
Halland
Jämtland
Jönköping
Kalmar
Kopparberg
Kristianstad
Kronoberg
Malmöhus
Norrbotten
Office of the
Governor of Stockholm
Örebro
Östergötland
Skaraborg
Södermanland
Stockholm
Uppsala
Värmland
Västerbotten
Västernorrland
Västmanland
 
Switzerland
Aargau
Appenzell
Ausserrhoden
Appenzell Innerrhoden
Basel-Landschaft
Basel-Stadt
Bern
Fribourg
Geneva
Glarus
Grisons
Luzern
Neuchâtel
Nidwalden
Obwalden
Schaffhausen
Schwyz
Solothurn
St. Gallen
Thurgau
Ticino
Uri
Valais
Vaud
Zug
Zürich
 
United Kingdom
England
Gibraltar
Guernsey
Ireland
Isle of Man
Jersey
Malta
Scotland
Wales
+4
Level 68
Feb 12, 2022
Incredible!
+3
Level 55
Feb 12, 2022
Thanks!
+5
Level 67
Feb 12, 2022
Svalbard was not a part of Norway in 1914.
+3
Level 55
Feb 12, 2022
Woops, that has been fixed, thanks.
+2
Level 39
Feb 18, 2022
Great Quiz
+2
Level 64
Feb 19, 2022
"You scored 101/529 = 19%

This beats or equals 0% of test takers"

Something's wrong, I can feel it.

edit: ok so this quiz was updated today so alright

+3
Level 55
Feb 19, 2022
Correct, to include Leiria PT.
+5
Level 64
Mar 3, 2022
I feel like I'm being trolled with the greyed-out subdivisions just WAITING to be in a "Subdivisions of the world in 1914"

I would do it but I dont know how to do SVGs and I value my life.

+2
Level 76
Mar 23, 2022
Nice. Maybe accept Noord-Brabant, Chernihiv, Dnipro (if you accept Ulyanovsk)?
+1
Level 50
Apr 2, 2022
Great quiz! Nominated.
+2
Level 74
Apr 2, 2022
If you accept Nidwald for Nidwalden, which is the French name, you should also accept Schwytz for Schwyz
+3
Level 79
Apr 16, 2022
This is a very nice map. I think I found a bug, though; typing "Copenhagen" gives both Copenhagen and the Italian Aegean. Is there some regex shenanigan that causes this?
+2
Level 55
Apr 16, 2022
Looking into it the subdivision's regex it's [AE]GE(A?N|O) (no ^) so that explains it
+1
Level 60
Aug 17, 2023
This behavior is still here... is it intentional?
+1
Level 56
Oct 19, 2022
Nice! Except (cue broken record act) the first-level subdivisions of the UK in 1914 were its counties. There were no Scottish, Welsh or Irish parliaments.

I'm just waiting for someone to wake up to that fact and have a stab at the border-drawing horror that is the Scottish counties!

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Level 50
Oct 19, 2022
If only all the other countries were more like Austria-Hungary...