Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 1368 – present

Brunei

A state of 1368 – present — 658 years, still standing in East and Southeast Asia. The atlas records 32 things within it — wars and battles 2 · unrest and atrocity 1 · famine and plague 1 · people 28. Its line of rulers holds 29 people, 11 with dated terms.

  • Still standing: the span runs to the year of the build, 2026.

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

Stood
658 years
and still standing
Rulers
29
the Sultan of Brunei Darussalam
Most ground
231,900 km²
in 1512
Within it
32
recorded rows
Symbols
3
on record, with years
Map: Brunei in 1512, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Brunei in 1512, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 231,900 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.
Brunei in 1368, first mapped

1368 · first mapped · 4,800 km²

Brunei in 1512, at its largest

1512 · at its largest · 231,900 km²

Brunei in 1987, last mapped

1987 · last mapped · 7,300 km²

The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Brunei: 1368 – 2026

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

Rulers

The line of Sultan of Brunei Darussalam - the office this state names as its head of state.

Nasruddin of Brunei · 1690 – 1710 · died in office, manner not recordedHusin Kamaluddin · 1710 – 1730 · left office aliveHusin Kamaluddin · 1737 – 1740 · died in office, manner not recordedMuhammad Kanzul Alam · 1807 – 1826 · left office aliveMuhammad Alam · 1826 – 1828 · died in office, manner not recordedOmar Ali Saifuddin II · 1828 – 1852 · died in office, manner not recordedAbdul Momin · 1852 – 1885 · died in office, manner not recordedHashim Jalilul Alam Aqamaddin · 1885 – 1906 · died in office, manner not recordedMuhammad Jamalul Alam II · 1906 – 1924 · died in office of natural causesAhmad Tajuddin · 1924 – 1950 · died in office, manner not recordedOmar Ali Saifuddien III · 1950 – 1967 · left office aliveHassanal Bolkiah · 1967 – … · still in office1400160018002000
died in officeleft alive by a regular roadstill in office
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Nasruddin of Brunei1690 – 171020 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Husin Kamaluddin1710 – 173020 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Husin Kamaluddin1737 – 17403 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Muhammad Kanzul Alam1807 – 182619 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Muhammad Alam1826 – 18282 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alonechild
Omar Ali Saifuddin II1828 – 185224 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Abdul Momin1852 – 188533 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alonein-law
Hashim Jalilul Alam Aqamaddin1885 – 190621 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Muhammad Jamalul Alam II1906 – 192418 yearsdied in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of deathchild
Ahmad Tajuddin1924 – 195026 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alonechild
Omar Ali Saifuddien III1950 – 196717 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alonesibling
Hassanal Bolkiah1967 – in officein office since 1967still in officechild

29 rulers, 11 with terms dated as terms, covering 1690 – 1967. Median reign 20 years. 0 of 11 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.

1400160018002000

4,800 km² in 1368, 7,300 km² in 2018; at its largest 231,900 km² in 1518. 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.

  • Flag of Brunei 1906-1959
    flag, 1906 – 1959Flag of Brunei 1906-1959 · Public domain
  • Emblem of Brunei
    coat of arms, from 1932Emblem of Brunei · CC0
  • Flag of Brunei
    flag, from 1959Flag of Brunei · 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.

1300 – 1399: 4 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 4 other13001400 – 1499: 1 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 1 other14001500 – 1599: 5 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 5 other15001600 – 1699: 7 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 7 other16001700 – 1799: 6 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 6 other17001800 – 1899: 2 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 2 other18001900 – 1999: 6 recorded — 2 wars and battles, 1 risings, regime changes and massacres, 3 other19002000 – 2099: 1 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 1 other2000

1300 – 13994 rows

1400 – 14991 row

1500 – 15995 rows

1600 – 16997 rows

1700 – 17996 rows

1800 – 18992 rows

1900 – 19996 rows · 2 wars and battles · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres

2000 – 20991 row

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 stood658 years

    stood longer than 92% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held231,900 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 62% 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.

  • How long a reign lasted, at the median20 years

    had longer reigns, at the median, than 62% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.

  • Rulers on record29

    has more rulers on record than 94% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q921 (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.