State · 1734 – 1940

Greenland

A state of 1734 – 1940 — 206 years in the Americas and Oceania. The atlas records 1 thing within it — works and ideas 1.

Wikidata records no founding for it; the borders dataset maps it from 1734 to 1940, 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: 206 years; 1734 – 1940
Most ground: 2.20 million km²; in 1936
Within it: 1; recorded row
Symbols: 3; on record, with years

Map: Greenland in 1936, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Greenland in 1936, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 2.20 million 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.

Greenland in 1734, first mapped — 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.

Greenland in 1936, at its largest — 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

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.

10,900 km² in 1734, 2.20 million km² in 1940; at its largest 2.20 million km² in 1940. 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, to 1985Flag of Denmark · Public domain
flag, from 1985Flag of Greenland · Public domain
coat of arms, from 1989Coat of arms of Greenland · 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 – 19991 row

Kaffeklubben Island · discovery · 1900

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 stood206 years
stood longer than 63% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held2,202,800 km²
held more ground at its peak than 92% 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, 1713 – 1961, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1936, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q223 (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.