User:Jun-Dai/Post-WWII border changes

This is an attempt to create a list/timeline of border changes post-WWII with some sort of categorisation.

Obviously, some of these are disputed, and the dates will vary depending on whose recognition you are going with.

There is a lot missing, particularly in the formation of post-colonial nations, which I will try to add in over time.


 * 1947 Partition of India
 * 1967 Six-Day Arab–Israeli War
 * Egypt loses Gaza and the Sinai Peninsula to Isreal
 * Jordan loses the West Bank to Israel
 * Syria loses the Golan Heights to Israel
 * 1971 Reversion of Okinawa to Japan
 * 1971 Bangladesh independence
 * 1982 Israel withdraws from Sinai Peninsula and it reverts to Egypt
 * 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia
 * 1993 Eritrean declaration of independence after a long war
 * 1997 Hong Kong handover
 * 1999 Macau handover
 * 2005 Israel disengages from Gaza - it is neither independent nor occupied

Ongoing and Frozen conflicts

 * North/South Korea
 * Chinese Revolution and Taiwan
 * Palestine and Israel
 * Ukraine and Russia
 * Kashmir