State · 1856 – 1859
New Caledonia
A state of 1856 – 1859 — 3 years in the Americas and Oceania.
- Wikidata records a founding in 1853 and no end; the borders dataset maps it from 1856 to 1859, 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
- 3 years
- 1856 – 1859
- Most ground
- 93,800 km²
- in 1859
- Symbols
- 2
- on record, with years
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.
27,200 km² in 1856, 93,800 km² in 1859. 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 FLNKS · Public domain 
coat of arms, undatedEmblem of New Caledonia · Public domain
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 held93,800 km²
held more ground at its peak than 44% 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, 1846 – 1869, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1859, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q33788 (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.