DATE World, over the real one
The U.S. Army's training countries, laid over the borders they borrow, promote, invent and erase.
- Real border, kept
- Provincial line, promoted
- Invented line
- Real border or claim line, erased
- Inside a DATE country
- Real land, filed "[foreign]"
- Patch note
Every country, as filed
All 30 entries, as filed
| Country | Real-world recipe | Area, km² | People, 2025 | Real / provincial / invented border |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Eurasia · v1.5 · May 2024 | Russia, plus ~750 km² of northern Azerbaijan | 16,949,524 | 143,100,000 | 100 / 0 / 0% |
 Eurasia · v1.5 · May 2024 | Iran, exactly | 1,622,497 | 89,900,000 | 100 / 0 / 0% |
 Eurasia · v1.5 · May 2024 | Ukraine + all of Belarus | 803,905 | 48,000,000 | 100 / 0 / 0% |
 Eurasia · v1.5 · May 2024 | Azerbaijan, minus Nakhchivan, its northwest corner and ~750 km² in the north | 77,082 | 9,600,000 | 91 / 2 / 7% |
 Eurasia · v1.5 · May 2024 | Georgia, with Abkhazia and South Ossetia, + Zaqatala, Balakan and most of Qax from Azerbaijan | 73,221 | 4,000,000 | 97 / 1 / 3% |
 Eurasia · v1.5 · May 2024 | Armenia + all of Nakhchivan | 34,317 | 3,200,000 | 100 / 0 / 0% |
 Indo-Pacific · v3.0 · July 2025 | Southern and central China + northern Vietnam (incl. Hanoi) + parts of northern Laos | 3,652,034 | 1,141,800,000 | 0 / 12 / 87% |
 Indo-Pacific · v3.0 · July 2025 | Eastern India + Tibet + Qinghai + Nepal + Bhutan + Bangladesh + Myanmar's Chin and Rakhine states | 3,315,499 | 890,300,000 | 14 / 75 / 11% |
 Indo-Pacific · v3.0 · July 2025 | Sumatra, Java, Bali and Kalimantan + most of Malaysia, incl. Kuala Lumpur and Sarawak | 1,359,790 | 254,500,000 | 29 / 50 / 21% |
 Indo-Pacific · v3.0 · July 2025 | Thailand + most of Cambodia + Myanmar's Tanintharyi + the Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 712,801 | 89,600,000 | 88 / 12 / 0% |
 Indo-Pacific · v3.0 · July 2025 | Myanmar's core + western and southern Yunnan + northwest Laos | 708,207 | 60,600,000 | 50 / 27 / 22% |
 Indo-Pacific · v3.0 · July 2025 | Papua New Guinea, minus Bougainville | 455,834 | 9,800,000 | 100 / 0 / 0% |
 Indo-Pacific · v3.0 · July 2025 | Southern and central Vietnam + most of Laos + eastern Cambodia | 348,472 | 66,900,000 | 58 / 31 / 12% |
 Indo-Pacific · v3.0 · July 2025 | The Visayas, Mindanao, Sulu and Bicol + Sabah and Labuan | 245,283 | 60,800,000 | 3 / 0 / 97% |
 Indo-Pacific · v3.0 · July 2025 | Northern Luzon | 55,727 | 9,200,000 | 0 / 25 / 75% |
 Indo-Pacific · v3.0 · July 2025 | Perak, Kelantan, Kedah, Penang and Perlis (Malaysia) | 46,817 | 8,300,000 | 41 / 59 / 0% |
 Indo-Pacific · v3.0 · July 2025 | Metro Manila, central and southern Luzon, Mindoro | 45,617 | 47,600,000 | 0 / 21 / 79% |
 Indo-Pacific · v3.0 · July 2025 | Solomon Islands + Bougainville | 36,512 | 800,000 | — |
 Indo-Pacific · v3.0 · July 2025 | Palawan | 14,371 | 1,400,000 | — |
 Indo-Pacific · v3.0 · July 2025 | Timor-Leste, minus the Oecusse exclave | 14,343 | 1,300,000 | 100 / 0 / 0% |
 Africa · GIS v1.4 · Nov 2021 | Most of Tanzania + northern Zambia + northern Malawi | 976,972 | 58,400,000 | 26 / 20 / 54% |
 Africa · GIS v1.4 · Nov 2021 | Most of Kenya + most of Uganda | 465,922 | 91,900,000 | 3 / 37 / 60% |
 Africa · GIS v1.4 · Nov 2021 | Southern Somalia + Kenya's north-east and Turkana + the Ilemi Triangle | 428,253 | 11,000,000 | 11 / 16 / 73% |
 Africa · GIS v1.4 · Nov 2021 | Tanzania's Lake Victoria shore | 90,228 | 12,700,000 | 2 / 27 / 70% |
 Legacy Europe · Arctic package · Apr 2026 | Ukraine only | 596,405 | 38,500,000 | — |
 Legacy Europe · Arctic package · Apr 2026 | Central Sweden (incl. Stockholm and Gotland) + Swedish and Finnish Lapland | 344,105 | 6,500,000 | — |
 Legacy Europe · Arctic package · Apr 2026 | Southern and western Finland (incl. Helsinki) + Åland | 152,415 | 4,400,000 | — |
 Legacy Europe · Arctic package · Apr 2026 | Eastern Finland | 133,844 | 900,000 | — |
 Legacy Europe · Arctic package · Apr 2026 | Sweden's north-central coast | 99,054 | 900,000 | — |
 Legacy Europe · Arctic package · Apr 2026 | Southern Sweden, from Skåne to Kalmar | 51,947 | 2,500,000 | — |
Methods
What was compared
The DATE boundary shapefiles from ODIN, as downloaded in October 2026: Eurasia GIS v1.5 (May 2024), the Caucasus GIS v1.4 (Nov 2021, for comparison), Indo-Pacific v3.0 (July 2025), Africa GIS v1.4 (Nov 2021) and the Arctic package (Apr 2026), which also carries the legacy DATE Europe countries. The reference is Natural Earth 10m v5.1.1, U.S. point of view.
Recipes
Each country's real-world makeup is the overlap of its polygon with real countries and provinces, measured in an equal-area projection. Shares under 0.3% are left out.
Border origins
Every DATE land border was cut into pieces about 2 km long. A piece counts as a real border if it lies within 3 km of a Natural Earth international or disputed line, as a promoted provincial line if it lies within 3 km of a first-level provincial line, and as invented otherwise. Coastlines are excluded. An erased line is a Natural Earth international or claim line lying more than 3 km inside a single DATE country.
Flags
Each flag is the image in the country's ODIN infobox as of October 2026, at the largest size the site holds for that design. Eleven countries also have an earlier flag still in ODIN's file library; their cards show it, with the month the current design was uploaded. Where the wiki gives a different long-form name from the shapefile, the card lists both.
Gaps
DATE's coastlines come from an older base map than Natural Earth 5.1.1. Where the two disagree, the classifier can mistake water for land; four such spots (Lake Peipus, the Dniester estuary, eastern Sabah and northern Panay) were removed by hand. Lengths and areas near coasts are approximate.
Population comes from the GHSL GHS-POP grid, 2025 epoch, at 1 km. It is a modeled estimate, and it predates the war's displacement in Ukraine.
"[foreign]" is the files' own word for land outside any DATE country. The files' metadata also carries staff usernames in its file paths; those are not reproduced here.
Sources
- ODIN: Decisive Action Training Environment (shapefiles, country pages and flags)
- DATE update: One Donovia, May 2024
- DATE Indo-Pacific expansion, July 2025
- DATE: Khorathidin, Jan 2025
- Arctic operational environment update, May 2025
- Natural Earth, 10m cultural and physical vectors, v5.1.1
- GHSL GHS-POP R2023A, 2025 epoch, 1 km