State · 1958

Arab Federation

A state of 1958 — under a year in the Middle East and North Africa. Its own article says it was dissolved by new Iraqi government officially.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: under a year; 1958 – 1958
Most ground: 538,100 km²; in 1958
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: Arab Federation in 1958, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Arab Federation in 1958, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 538,100 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

How it ended, as its article says

Dissolved by new Iraqi government officially, 1958-08-02. Read from the article's section “lead” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.

Faisal II was deposed by a military coup on 14 July, and the new Iraqi government officially dissolved the Federation on 2 August 1958.

One sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

538,100 km² in 1958. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flag or arms

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

flag, 1958 – 1958Flag of the Arab Federation · Public domain

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood1 years
stood longer than 3% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held538,100 km²
held more ground at its peak than 75% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1948 – 1968, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1958, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q146713 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · one sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.