Empire · approximate1885 – 1960 · 75 years

Belgian Congo

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Overview

The Belgian Congo was a Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until independence in 1960. It is today the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Wikipedia: Belgian Congo·CC BY-SA 4.0

Borders & accuracy

Approximate borders

Dashed borders mark empires whose extent we can date but whose precise frontiers are contested or undocumented.

SOURCEreconstructed from Natural Earth country boundaries
DETAILreconstructed-clipped-country
SNAPSHOT1930
POLITY TYPEstate

Wars of this empire3

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

Pende Revolt1931
Significant
Kibati Rebellion1944
Regional
Leopoldville Riots1959
Regional

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1885 and fits the map to these borders.

Cite as: Belgian Congo (1885 – 1960). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/belgian-congo · Sources & methodology