State · 1957 – 1960
Dominion of Ghana
A state of 1957 – 1960 — 3 years in sub-Saharan Africa. It was replaced by Ghana. Its line of rulers holds 1 person.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 3 years
- 1957 – 1960
- Rulers
- 1
- the monarch of the commonwealth realm of Ghana
- Most ground
- 241,900 km²
- in 1960
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.
After it
- Ghana · replaced by · 1960 – present
Rulers
The line of monarch of the commonwealth realm of Ghana.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth II | 1957 – 1960 | 3 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone |
1 rulers, 1 with terms dated as terms, covering 1957 – 1960. Only 3 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Heads of government
The line of head of government, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Kwame Nkrumah | lived 1909 – 1972 |
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.
241,900 km² in 1960. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.
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 stood3 years
stood longer than 10% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held241,900 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.
- Rulers on record1
has more rulers on record than 13% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 0 causes the record names and 1 result, 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, 1947 – 1970, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1960, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q5555325 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.