State · 1771 – 1950

Pontianak Sultanate

A state of 1771 – 1950 — 179 years in East and Southeast Asia. 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: 179 years; 1771 – 1950
Rulers: 1; the 7th Sultan of Pontianak
Most ground: 4,100 km²; in 1772
Symbols: 2; on record, with years

Map: Pontianak Sultanate in 1772, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Pontianak Sultanate in 1772, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 4,100 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
Syarif Hamid II	1945 – 1950	5 years	ending not on record

1 rulers, 1 with terms dated as terms, covering 1945 – 1950. Only 5 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.

4,100 km² in 1781, 4,100 km² in 1821; at its largest 4,100 km² in 1781. 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.

coat of arms, undatedCoat of Arms of the Sultanate of Pontianak (1945) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Aldontknow This W3C-unspecified vector image was created with Inkscape .
flag, undatedFlag of Pontianak Sultanate · 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 stood179 years
stood longer than 59% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held4,100 km²
held more ground at its peak than 8% 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, 1753 – 1968, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1772, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q3048747 (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.