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One could also talk about Serbia being reduced to its ethnographic borders during World War II after the Nazis invaded Yugoslavia in 1941: Compare this with the core Serb ethnographic territories in Yugoslavia in 1981:

I suppose that Sudan can sort-of qualify for this due to it losing most of its non-Arab territories in 2011 when South Sudan seceded from it: It would, of course, help if Sudan also eventually ended up losing Darfur.

This World War I-era map does a good job portraying the World War I-era situation in regards to this:

Some additional examples of this that I forgot to mention the first time around: -Poland being reduced to its ethnographic borders after the end of World War II, as a direct result of this war. Of course, Poland also strongly benefitted from the mass expulsions of Germans in the West. -France...

Which additional realistic cases could there have been of a country being more-or-less reduced to its ethnographic borders? In real life, there were: -Germany, Austria, Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire all being more-or-less reduced to their ethnographic borders after the end of World War I...