State · 1841 – 1946

Raj of Sarawak

A state of 1841 – 1946 — 105 years in East and Southeast Asia. It was followed by Crown Colony of Sarawak. Its line of rulers holds 3 people.

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

Stood: 105 years; 1841 – 1946
Rulers: 3; the Rajah
Most ground: 129,000 km²; in 1946
Symbols: 2; on record, with years

Map: Raj of Sarawak in 1946, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Raj of Sarawak in 1946, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 129,000 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.

Raj of Sarawak in 1842, first mapped — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Raj of Sarawak in 1946, at its largest — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

After it

Crown Colony of Sarawak · followed by

Rulers

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

left alive by a regular roadending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
James Brooke	1841 – 1868	27 years	resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Charles Brooke	1868 – 1917	49 years	ending not on record
Charles Vyner Brooke	1917 – 1946	29 years	ending not on record	child

3 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 1841 – 1946. Median reign 29 years. 0 of 2 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. 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.

4,900 km² in 1851, 129,000 km² in 1946; at its largest 129,000 km² in 1946. 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 Raj of Sarawak · CC0
flag, undatedFlag of Sarawak (1870–1946, 1963–1973) · 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 stood105 years
stood longer than 48% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held129,000 km²
held more ground at its peak than 51% 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.
How long a reign lasted, at the median29 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 81% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record3
has more rulers on record than 48% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 0 causes the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Theories that apply to its ending

Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.

Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling
Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009
Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.
- the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 105

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1830 – 1957, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1946, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q1658411 (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.