Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 1665 – 1884

Lunda Empire

A state of 1665 – 1884 — 219 years in sub-Saharan Africa. The atlas records 1 thing within it — wars and battles 1.

  • Wikidata's English label: Kingdom of Lunda.

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

Stood
219 years
1665 – 1884
Most ground
112,900 km²
in 1709
Within it
1
recorded row
Map: Lunda Empire in 1709, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Lunda Empire in 1709, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 112,900 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

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Lunda Empire: 1665 – 1884

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.

175018001850

112,900 km² in 1715, 109,600 km² in 1884; at its largest 112,900 km² in 1715. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

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.

1600 – 1699: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other16001700 – 1799: 1 recorded — 1 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other17001800 – 1899: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other1800

1700 – 17991 row · 1 wars and battles

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 stood219 years

    stood longer than 65% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held112,900 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 48% 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

Wikidata Q1796223 (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.