// Modern era
Sokoto Caliphate
- Period
- AD 1805 – AD 1904
- Duration
- approx. 99 years
- Greatest extent
- around AD 1836
- Area (max.)
- approx. 799,000 km²
Period and duration
Sokoto Caliphate — according to the map data from AD 1805 to AD 1904, roughly 99 years. The dates refer to the time the empire is drawn as its own territory on the world map; historians sometimes date its founding and end differently.
Greatest extent
Sokoto Caliphate — greatest extent around AD 1836: the mapped borders then cover about 799,000 km², roughly 0.5% of Earth's land area. The area is calculated from the border lines of the map and is therefore an approximation.
Predecessors and successors
States that ruled the same territory directly before and after:
Before (AD 1804)
After
Neighbours around AD 1836
The largest states in the region at the same time:
- British Empire
- Ottoman Empire
- British Colonial Empire
- Spanish Empire
- British Cape Colony
- Bourbon Kingdom of France
- Netherlands
- Wadai Empire
Learn more
- Open the world map in AD 1836 — tap the empire for a detailed description
- Sokoto Caliphate on Wikipedia
- All 300 empires at a glance
Borders and dates: Cliopatria / Seshat Global History Databank (CC BY 4.0). Coastlines: Natural Earth. Text: Centaurian.