State · 1908 – 1960
Belgian Congo
A state of 1908 – 1960 — 52 years in sub-Saharan Africa. It replaced Congo Free State. The atlas records 12 things within it — wars and battles 1 · unrest and atrocity 1 · famine and plague 1 · people 9. Its line of rulers holds 4 people.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 52 years
- 1908 – 1960
- Rulers
- 4
- the King
- Most ground
- 2.37 million km²
- in 1922
- Within it
- 12
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 2
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.
Before and after
The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.
Before it
- Congo Free State · replaces · 1885 – 1908
Rulers
Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leopold II of Belgium | 1908 – 1909 | 1 year | ending not on record | |
| Albert I of Belgium | 1909 – 1934 | 25 years | ending not on record | nephew or niece |
| Leopold III of Belgium | 1934 – 1951 | 17 years | abdicated, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | child |
| Baudouin of Belgium | 1951 – 1960 | 9 years | ending not on record | child |
4 rulers, 4 with terms dated as terms, covering 1908 – 1960. Median reign 13 years. 0 of 3 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
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.
2.37 million km² in 1918, 50,100 km² in 1960; at its largest 2.37 million km² in 1928. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.
Flags and arms, in order
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
coat of arms, undatedGreater Coat of Arms of the Belgian Congo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Lesser coat of arms of Belgium.svg : Katepanomegas und Sodacan gemeinsam; Schild Kongo Fr… 
flag, undatedFlag of the Congo Free State · Public domain
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
1900 – 199912 rows · 1 wars and battles · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- HIV/AIDS · plague · 1959
- Patrice Lumumba · politician · 1925 – 1961
- Moïse Tshombe · politician · 1919 – 1969
- Antoine Gizenga · politician · 1925 – 2019
- Grégoire Kayibanda · ruler · 1924 – 1976
- Cyrille Adoula · politician · 1921 – 1978
- Dominique Mbonyumutwa · ruler · 1921 – 1986
- Joseph Iléo · politician · 1921 – 1994
and 4 more in the atlas.
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 stood52 years
stood longer than 34% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held2,368,800 km²
held more ground at its peak than 93% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century1.0
had more wars on record per century than 94% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median17 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 54% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record4
has more rulers on record than 58% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 1 cause the record names and 0 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1898 – 1970, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1922, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q213510 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.