State · 1918

Polish Land Forces

A state of 1918 — under a year in Europe. The atlas records 1 thing within it — people 1.

Wikidata records a founding in 1918 and no end; the borders dataset maps it from 1918 to 1918, 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: under a year; 1918 – 1918
Most ground: 50,600 km²; in 1918
Within it: 1; recorded row
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: Polish Land Forces in 1918, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Polish Land Forces in 1918, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 50,600 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.

50,600 km² in 1918. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flag or arms

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

coat of arms, undatedPOL Wojska Lądowe · 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

Pyotr Masherov · politician · 1918 – 1980

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 stood1 years
stood longer than 3% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held50,600 km²
held more ground at its peak than 35% 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, 1908 – 1928, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1918, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q248989 (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.