State · 1788 – 1796

Freetown

A state of 1788 – 1796 — 8 years in sub-Saharan Africa.

Wikidata records a founding in 1792 and no end; the borders dataset maps it from 1788 to 1796, and those are the years drawn here.

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

Stood: 8 years; 1788 – 1796
Most ground: 285,400 km²; in 1796
Symbols: 2; on record, with years

Map: Freetown in 1796, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Freetown in 1796, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 285,400 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.

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.

6,600 km² in 1788, 285,400 km² in 1796; at its largest 285,400 km² in 1796. 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, undatedFlag of Freetown, Sierra Leone · CC0
coat of arms, undatedCoatofarms freetown · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Unknown author Unknown author

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 stood8 years
stood longer than 16% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held285,400 km²
held more ground at its peak than 65% 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, 1778 – 1806, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1796, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q3780 (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.