State · 1609 – 1956

Sultanate of Sambas

A state of 1609 – 1956 — 347 years in East and Southeast Asia.

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

Stood: 347 years; 1609 – 1956
Most ground: 5,900 km²; in 1619
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: Sultanate of Sambas in 1619, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Sultanate of Sambas in 1619, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 5,900 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

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.

5,900 km² in 1634, 5,900 km² in 1809; at its largest 5,900 km² in 1634. 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.

flag, undatedBendera sambas · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Sandinurdin

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 stood347 years
stood longer than 77% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held5,900 km²
held more ground at its peak than 11% 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, 1574 – 1991, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1619, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q3109927 (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.