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How the world got here.

The history behind today's headlines

Georaj shows you how the world got here, visually, on one living map. Drag through time and watch wars, borders, alliances and empires appear right where they happened. Every story from our videos, with the backstory behind it.

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Drag the years

1914

An assassination in Sarajevo sets off the First World War

On Georaj, every one of these is a pin on the map, with the full story one tap away.

1,000+

Events, pinned where they happened

Coups, treaties, wars and elections, each placed on the map and dated to the year.

100+

Storylines, decades long

Follow one arc, like oil, empire or a partition, chapter by chapter across the century.

One

Map for the whole story

Scrub through time and see what came before a headline, and what came of it.

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The backstory the headlines skip

Russia · Ukraine01 / 21

In 1994 Ukraine gave up the world's third-largest nuclear arsenal. In return, the US, the UK and Russia signed the Budapest Memorandum, pledging to respect its borders.

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