Empire1800 – 1949 · 149 years

Dutch East Indies

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 Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies, was a Dutch colony with territory mostly comprising the modern state of Indonesia, which declared independence on 17 August 1945. Following the Indonesian War of Independence, Indonesia and the Netherlands made peace in 1949. In the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824, the Dutch ceded the governorate of Dutch Malacca to Britain, leading to its eventual incorporation into Malacca (state) of modern Malaysia.

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Borders & accuracy

Reconstructed borders

Solid borders are reconstructed from canonical historical-basemap data or hand-crafted from scholarly atlases.

SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
DETAILhistorical-basemaps
SNAPSHOT1914
POLITY TYPEstate

Wars of this empire2

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

Dutch East Indies campaign1941–42
World-changing
Aceh War1873–1904
Significant · 100K dead

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1800 and fits the map to these borders.

Cite as: Dutch East Indies (1800 – 1949). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/dutch-east-indies · Sources & methodology