State · 1871 – 1874

Kingdom of Fiji

A state of 1871 – 1874 — 3 years in the Americas and Oceania. 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; 1871 – 1874
Rulers: 1; the Monarch
Most ground: 21,800 km²; in 1871
Symbols: 2; on record, with years

Map: Kingdom of Fiji in 1871, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Kingdom of Fiji in 1871, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 21,800 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.

Rulers

Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.

ending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Seru Epenisa Cakobau	1871 – 1874	3 years	ending not on record

1 rulers, 1 with terms dated as terms, covering 1871 – 1874. 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”.

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.

21,800 km² in 1871, 21,800 km² in 1874. 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 the Kingdom of Fiji (1871-1874) · Public domain
coat of arms, undatedCoat of arms of the Kingdom of Fiji (1871-1874) · CC0

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 held21,800 km²
held more ground at its peak than 22% 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.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1861 – 1884, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1871, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q17515160 (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.