Battlefields of WWI on Map (all countries and 100k+ cities)

Name all the present day countries and cities with at least 100,000 inhabitants that became part of the battlefield of the First World War.

All ground fights that took place between 28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918 where at least one of the belligerents was a member country of Allied (Entente) Powers or Central Powers and the other one successor or client state of (or supported by) a member of Allied Powers or Central Powers.

Does not include: revolts where the revolutionaries were not linked with either one of the sides (for example Kaocen revolt, Volta-Bani War); parts of civil wars where neither one of the belligerents was part of Allies or Central Powers (fights of Russian Civil War between Reds and Whites, fights with Czechoslovak legions...); places that were bombed but not experienced a ground fight; cities founded after the war.

At theatres with a typical frontline battlfield all cities through which the frontline moved are counted (typically Western and Eastern front). At thetares with more dispersed battlefields and fights at smaller scales, only cities where fights took place are counted (due to insufficient data sometimes it was not easy to determine this).

Where appropriate, population was counted as of built-up areas, not city proper.

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Allied Powers / Entente Powers
City/Town	Population	Current Country
Kingdom of Serbia
Belgrade	1,166,763	Serbia
Niš	183,164
Kragujevac	150,835
Pristina	164,271	Kosovo
Prizren	108,939	Kosovo
Skopje	509,900	North Macedonia
Kingdom of Montenegro
Podgorica	201,631	Montenegro
Area with no city over 100k		Serbia
Area with no city over 100k		Kosovo
Kingdom of Greece
Area with no city over 100k		Greece
France
Lille	922,518	France
Lens/Liévin	269,029
Reims	211,812
Amiens	159,811
Valenciennes	136,404
Douai	110,839
Khenifra	117,510	Morocco
Area with no city over 100k		Chad
Kingdom of Belgium
Brussels	1,491,295	Belgium
Antwerp	786,138
Liège	430,836
Charleroi	278,856
Ghent	273,879
Mons	150,292
Kortrijk	139,418
Leuven	134,831
Namur	111,432
Bruges	108,150
Kingdom of Italy
Udine	100,170	Italy
Area with no city over 100k		Libya
British Empire
El Arish	191,584	Egypt
Aden	588,938	Yemen
Kasama	101,845	Zambia
Kisii	112,417	Kenya
Area with no city over 100k		Nigeria
Area with no city over 100k		Malawi
Area with no city over 100k		South Africa
Portugal
Area with no city over 100k		Mozambique
Area with no city over 100k		Angola
Kingdom of Romania
Bucharest	1,883,425	Romania
Constanța	283,872
Craiova	269,506
Ploiești	209,945
Brăila	180,302
Pitești	155,383
Buzău	115,494
Area with no city over 100k		Bulgaria
Russian Empire
Warsaw	1,790,658	Poland
Lodz	679,941
Lublin	339,784
Białystok	297,554
Częstochowa	220,433
Radom	211,371
Sosnowiec	199,974
Kielce	194,852
Płock	119,425
Dąbrowa Górnicza	119,373
Włocławek	109,883
Kalisz	100,246
Vilnius	559,250	Lithuania
Kaunas (Kovno)	293,257
Šiauliai	101,862
Rīga	627,487	Latvia
Grodno	357,510	Belarus
Brest (Brest-Litovsk)	340,318
Baranavichy	174,183
Pinsk	125,900
Lida	103,391
Area with no city over 100k		Ukraine

Neutral and other countries
City/Town	Population	Current Country
Principality of Albania
Tirana	418,495	Albania
Durrës	113,249	Albania
Area with no city over 100k		Kosovo
Luxembourg
Luxembourg	122,273	Luxembourg
Qajar Persia
Tehran	8,693,706	Iran
Isfahan	2,208,388
Karaj	1,592,492
Tabriz	1,558,693
Shiraz	1,565,572
Qom	1,201,158
Ahvaz	1,184,788
Kermanshah	946,651
Urmia	736,224
Rasht	679,995
Hamadan	554,406
Kerman	537,718
Ardabil	529,374
Arak (Soltan Abad)	520,944
Zanjan	430,871
Sanandaj	412,767
Qazvīn	402,748
Gorgan (Astarabad)	350,676
Kashan	304,487
Bushehr	223,504
Saveh	220,762
Khoy	198,845
Ilam	194,030
Bukan	193,501
Maragheh	175,255
Malayer	170,237
Mahabad	168,393
Saqqez	165,258
Miandoab	134,425
Marand	130,825
Bandar-e Anzali	118,564
Baneh	110,218
Robat Karim	105,393
Ahar	100,641
Sultanate of Darfur
Area with no city over 100k		Sudan
Parts of former Russian Empire in 1918
Russian Soviet Republic
Tallinn (Reval)	437,619	Estonia
Minsk	2,009,786	Belarus
Gomel	507,795
Mogilev	357,404
Babruysk	211,389
Barysaw	139,481
Orsha	106,505
Mazyr	105,439
Rostov-on-Don	1,137,904	Russia
Makhachkala (Petrovsk)	603,518
Belgorod	394,142
Arkhangelsk	346,979
Taganrog	248,643
Shakhty (Alexandrovsk-Grushevsky)	230,262
Pskov	210,340
Novocherkassk	168,035
Bataysk	127,919
Derbent	125,832
Donetsk (Yuzovka)	908,456	Ukraine
Sevastopol	403,893
Simferopol	342,054
Makiivka (Dmytriivsk)	341,362
Kerch	151,548
Yevpatoria	108,248
Mary (Merv)	123,000	Turkmenistan
Area with no city over 100k		Latvia
Ukrainian People's Republic
Kiev	2,967,360	Ukraine
Kharkiv	1,443,207
Odessa	1,017,699
Dnipro (Yekaterinoslav)	990,724
Zaporizhia (Alexandrovsk)	731,922
Kryvyi Rih	619,278
Mykolaiv	480,080
Mariupol	436,569
Luhansk	401,297
Vinnytsia	370,707
Kherson	286,958
Chernihiv	286,899
Poltava	286,649
Cherkasy	274,762
Khmelnytskyi (Proskuriv)	273,713
Zhytomyr	264,318
Sumy	262,119
Rivne (Rovno)	246,003
Horlivka	242,224
Kamianske	231,915
Kropyvnytskyi (Yelisavetgrad)	225,339
Kremenchuk	219,022
Lutsk	217,315
Bila Tserkva	209,238
Kramatorsk	152,120
Melitopol	151,948
Berdyansk	109,187
Nikopol	109,122
Sloviansk	108,363
Brovary	108,349
Alchevsk	106,941
Pavlohrad	104,225
Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic
Kars	285,410	Turkey
Batumi	169,095	Georgia
Gyumri (Alexandropol)	112,400	Armenia
Centro-Caspian Dictatorship
Baku	1,756,700	Azerbaijan
Moldavian Democratic Republic
Chișinău	532,513	Moldova
Tiraspol	133,807	Moldova
Area with no city over 100k		Ukraine
Finland
Helsinki	1,305,893	Finland
Lahti	119,469	Finland

Central Powers
City/Town	Population	Current Country
German Empire
Mulhouse	222,420	France
Olsztyn (Allenstein)	171,979	Poland
Klaipėda (Memel)	149,046	Lithuania
Douala	1,906,962	Cameroon
Yaoundé	1,817,524
Bamenda	269,530
Bafoussam	239,287
Garoua	235,996
Maroua	201,371
Ngaoundéré	152,698
Kumba	144,268
Nkongsamba	104,050
Windhoek	325,858	Namibia
Bujumbura (Usumbura)	497,166	Burundi
Kigali	859,332	Rwanda
Gisenyi	136,830	Rwanda
Dar es Salaam	4,364,541	Tanzania
Mwanza	706,453
Arusha	416,442
Morogoro	305,840
Tanga	221,127
Kigoma	215,458
Dodoma	213,636
Songea	203,309
Moshi	184,292
Tabora	160,608
Iringa	151,345
Bukoba	128,796
Shinyanga	103,795
Qingdao	4,556,077	China
Area with no city over 100k		Russia
Area with no city over 100k		Togo
Area with no city over 100k		Gabon
Area with no city over 100k		Republic of Congo
Area with no city over 100k		Central African Republic
Area with no city over 100k		Nigeria
Area with no city over 100k		Papua New Guinea
Austria-Hungary
Lviv	724,314	Ukraine
Ivano-Frankivsk (Stanislau)	237,686
Chernivtsi	267,060
Ternopil	223,462
Rzeszów	196,208	Poland
Tarnów	108,470	Poland
Brașov (Kronstadt)	253,200	Romania
Sibiu (Hermannstadt)	147,245	Romania
Trieste	201,613	Italy
Trento	120,641	Italy
Area with no city over 100k		Slovakia
Area with no city over 100k		Slovenia
Ottoman Empire
Van	497,443	Turkey
Erzurum	410,543
Trabzon	286,328
Erzincan	132,315
Bingöl	123,958
Ağrı (Karaköse)	118,928
Rize	114,576
Muş	108,049
Baghdad	6,719,476	Iraq
Basra	1,676,977
Mosul	1,361,819
Kirkuk	972,272
Najaf	918,566
Karbala	711,530
Nasiriyah	558,446
Amarah	527,472
Hillah	455,741
Al Diwaniyah	403,796
Kut El Amara	389,376
Az-Zubayr	300,751
Baqubah	279,133
Fallujah	250,884
Ramadi	223,525
Samawah	221,743
Al-Shatrah	182,175
Kalar	145,164
Samarra	144,771
Suq ash Shuyukh	131,576
Al-Qurnah	126,434
Tikrit	108,964
Tuz Khurmatu	102,565
Al-Mahmoudiyah	101,421
Al-Iskandariya	100,619
Aleppo	2,132,100	Syria
Damascus	2,057,536
Homs	652,609
Hama	312,994
Douma	110,893
Beirut	1,650,000	Lebanon
Tripoli	450,000
Sidon	250,000
Zahlé	140,000
Tyre	125,000
Tel Aviv-Yafo	2,255,880	Israel
Jerusalem	1,234,325
Haifa	285,316
Ashdod	225,939
Beersheba	209,687
Rehovot	194,255
Ramla/Lod	153,469
Ashkelon	144,073
Beit Shemesh	124,957
Nazareth	119,179
Gaza	1,099,500	Palestine
Khan Yunis	401,600
Deir al-Balah (Darum)	294,300
Rafaḥ	225,200
Hebron	215,600
Nablus	164,800
Ramallah	117,900
Amman	4,959,393	Jordan
Irbid	751,645
Ar-Ramtha	155,693
Aqaba	148,398
Mafraq	106,008
Madaba	105,353
Jeddah	3,430,697	Saudi Arabia
Mecca	1,534,731
Medina	1,100,093
Ta'if	579,970
Tabuk	512,629
Yanbu	233,236
Al-Ḥawiyah	148,151
Area with no city over 100k		Yemen
Tsardom of Bulgaria
Area with no city over 100k		North Macedonia

Level 56

Apr 18, 2021

Incredible.

Level 57

Apr 21, 2021

Thanks a lot! :)

Level 56

Apr 26, 2021

This really deserves more takes than it has now, I'm going to advertize it to my real-life friends

Level 57

Apr 27, 2021

Oh, thank you very much! I must admit that I was also expecting more but don't know how to get it among more people...

Level 66

Jun 30, 2021

Indeed a great quiz! Its current play count definitely doesn't do the quality justice.

Great job on the spotlight too! That should boost the takes (hopefully)!

Level 77

Jun 30, 2021

Educational! I've never seen a world map of WW1 battles. Thanks!

Level 69

Jun 30, 2021

I wondered which country I missed and it turned out it was Palestine, which I don't think counts as a country for most of the jetpunk quizzes.

Level 60

Jun 30, 2021

Amazing quiz, even though I got a few by mistyping other cities somehow. Really great effort, enjoyed it thoroughly!

Level 57

Jan 10, 2022

Appreciate the effort -- curious about your sources... Some big name battles like St Mihiel are missing, which may be because of the constraints, but still feels like it doesn't represent the history of the war as well as it could. There are also some battles that may have hand land fighting included operated by the navy that I don't see here (Port Stanley in the Falklands, Port Arthur by Japan, German raids of England, etc.)

Level 57

Jan 17, 2022

Well, you probably didn't read the instructions. The quiz asks for all cities with at least 100,000 inhabitants that became part of the battlefield. It does't ask for famous battles. Cities like St. Mihiel, Verdun, Ypres etc. etc are smaller than 100,000 inhabitants.It would be huuuge quiz if I should include smaller cities and towns (even though some famous battles are named after them).

As far as I know, the battle of Falklands took place only at the sea... And Port Arthur...don't you confuse it with the battle during Russo-Japanes war in 1904?

So honestly, it represents the history of the war in quite a huge detail (considering very difficult and deep research of battlefields in Africa and Asia for example :)

Level 80

Oct 1, 2022

This is a great quiz, but may I make a request to have Palestine as a prefilled answer? You should still include the cities, but I never got any of them because I assumed it followed JetPunk standard that Palestine was not a sovereign nation and didn’t even try it.

Level 64

Oct 3, 2022

geez alright I didnt expect this much

Level 89

Oct 7, 2022

If somebody didn't know how intense the immobile fighting was on the Western Front, the map makes it look like a miniscule bit of a wide fought war.

Level 66

Nov 24, 2022

Didn't realize so few were fought on proper German soil.

Level 71

Dec 21, 2023

Germany surrendered before the fighting reached their territory. they still occupied parts of poland and france at the last day of the war so yeah noone actually invaded them

Level 67

Dec 22, 2023

Fantastic quiz! Is there a WWII version??

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