State · 1948 – 1963
Federation of Malaya
A state of 1948 – 1963 — 15 years in East and Southeast Asia. It followed Malayan Union. It was replaced by Malaysia. The atlas records 5 things within it — people 5. Its line of rulers holds 4 people. Its own article says it was replaced by Malaysia.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 15 years
- 1948 – 1963
- Rulers
- 4
- the Yang di-Pertuan Agong
- Most ground
- 140,200 km²
- in 1958
- Within it
- 5
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 3
- 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
- Malayan Union · follows · 1946 – 1948
After it
- Malaysia · replaced by · 1963 – present
How it ended, as its article says
Replaced by Malaysia, 1963-09-16. Read from the article's section “lead” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.
Initially a self-governing colony of the United Kingdom, Malaya became fully sovereign on 31 August 1957, and on 16 September 1963, the federation was superseded by Malaysia when it united with Singapore, North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak.
One sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rulers
The line of Yang di-Pertuan Agong - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan | 1957 – 1960 | 3 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Hisamuddin of Selangor | 1960 – 1960 | under a year | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Putra of Perlis | 1960 – 1965 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Ismail Nasiruddin of Terengganu | 1965 – 1970 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone |
4 rulers, 4 with terms dated as terms, covering 1957 – 1970. Only 13 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 0 of 3 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. The violent-handover count is withheld: power changed hands so often that any rising falls beside one (exposure 0.86, limit 0.6). 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.
| Tunku Abdul Rahman | 1955 – 1957 |
| Tunku Abdul Rahman | 1957 – … |
| Tunku Abdul Rahman | 1957 – 1970 |
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.
140,200 km² in 1958. 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.
.svg/120px-Flag_of_Malaya_(1896%E2%80%931950).svg.png)
flag, undatedFlag of Malaya (1896–1950) · Public domain 
coat of arms, undatedCoat of arms of the Federation of Malaya · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_Malaya_(1950%E2%80%931963).svg.png)
flag, from 1950Flag of Malaya (1950–1963) · CC BY-SA 2.5 · No machine-readable author provided. Nightstallion assumed (based on copyright claims).
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 – 19993 rows
- Ismail Sabri Yaakob · politician · 1960 – present
- Putra of Perlis · ruler · 1920 – 2000
- Jemilah Mahmood · person · 1959 – present
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 stood15 years
stood longer than 20% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held140,200 km²
held more ground at its peak than 52% 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 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 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, 1938 – 1973, 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 Q1479726 (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.