Territorial change of Dutch Gold Coast

“Dutch Gold Coast” — appears in this map’s data from AD 1653 to 1872. Its territory was largest in AD 1868 – 1870, at ≈ 16 thousand km².

Territory by period

Outline at its largest extent

Outline of the territory in AD 1868 – 1870 (map drawing). Neighbouring countries are not drawn.

Area and rank by frame

For each frame in which borders change: this country’s territory and its rank by area among the countries that have territory in that frame.

Its highest rank was in AD 1807: number 132 of 92.

Neighbouring countries

In order of the number of frames in which they share a border (a parent state, its colonies and other names of the same country are counted as one group).

• Kingdom of France — 274 frames
• Kingdom of England — 248 frames
• Kingdom of Portugal — 134 frames
• Belgium — 86 frames
• Bima Sultanate — 83 frames
• Malacca Sultanate — 74 frames
• German Empire — 70 frames
• Bali — 68 frames
• Denmark–Norway — 64 frames
• Asante Empire — 62 frames
• Holy Roman Empire — 61 frames
• Banten Sultanate — 58 frames
• Johor Sultanate — 45 frames
• Hamengkubuwono — 37 frames
• Surakarta Sunanate — 37 frames
• Kingdom of Prussia — 36 frames
• Brazil — 35 frames
• Brandenburg–Prussia — 35 frames
• Jambi Sultanate — 34 frames
• Empire of Brazil — 31 frames

Notes on how this country is shown

Parent state: Netherlands (colony) — drawn in a lighter shade of the parent state’s colour on the map.

Wikipedia summary

The Dutch Gold Coast or Dutch Guinea, officially Dutch possessions on the Coast of Guinea (Dutch: Nederlandse Bezittingen ter Kuste van Guinea), was a portion of contemporary Ghana known as the Gold Coast (Dutch: Goudkust), that from 1612 was gradually colonised by the Dutch West India Company (WIC) from the Dutch and Batavian Republics (present-day Kingdom of the Netherlands).

Wikipedia (English) “Dutch Gold Coast”, introduction (first sentences) · text under CC BY-SA 4.0 · read more on Wikipedia

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