State · 1991 – present
Azerbaijan
A state of 1991 – present — 35 years, still standing in the Middle East and North Africa. It replaced Soviet Union and Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. The atlas records 35 things within it — wars and battles 21 · regime change 1 · unrest and atrocity 3 · famine and plague 1 · natural disasters 1 · treaties 1 · people 7. Its line of rulers holds 6 people.
- Still standing: the span runs to the year of the build, 2026.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 35 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 6
- the President of Azerbaijan
- Most ground
- 78,400 km²
- in 1992
- Within it
- 35
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 3
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.
Before and after
The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.
Before it
- Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic · replaces · 1920 – 1991
- Soviet Union · replaces · 1923 – 1991
Rulers
The line of President of Azerbaijan - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yagub Mammadov | 1992 – 1992 | under a year | ending not on record | |
| Isa Gambar | 1992 – 1992 | under a year | ending not on record | |
| Ayaz Mutallibov | 1992 – 1992 | under a year | resignedWikidata's end cause on the term | |
| Abulfaz Elchibey | 1992 – 1993 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Heydar Aliyev | 1993 – 1993 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Ilham Aliyev | 2003 – in office | in office since 2003 | still in office | child |
6 rulers, 6 with terms dated as terms, covering 1992 – 2003. Only 11 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 2 of 5 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. The violent-handover count is withheld: power changed hands so often that any rising falls beside one (exposure 1.00, limit 0.6). A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Heads of government
The line of Prime Minister of Azerbaijan, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Hasan Hasanov | 1991 – 1992 |
| Firuz Mustafayev | 1992 – 1992 |
| Surat Huseynov | 1993 – 1994 |
| Fuad Guliyev | 1995 – 1996 |
| Artur Rasizade | 1996 – 2003 |
| Ilham Aliyev | 2003 – 2003 |
| Artur Rasizade | 2003 – 2018 |
| Novruz Mammadov | 2018 – 2019 |
| Ali Asadov | 2019 – … |
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.
70,400 km² in 1996, 70,400 km² in 2021; at its largest 70,400 km² in 1996. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.
Flags and arms, in order
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
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flag, to 2013Flag of Azerbaijan (1991–2013) · Public domain 
coat of arms, from 1993Emblem of Azerbaijan · Public domain 
flag, from 2013Flag of Azerbaijan · Public domain
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
1900 – 199920 rows · 8 wars and battles · 4 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Ilham Aliyev · ruler · 1961 – present
- Heydar Aliyev · ruler · 1923 – 2003
- Khojaly massacre · atrocity · 1992
- Abulfaz Elchibey · ruler · 1938 – 2000
- Ayaz Mutallibov · ruler · 1938 – 2022
- Isa Gambar · ruler · 1957 – present
- Maraga massacre · atrocity · 1992
- Yagub Mammadov · ruler · 1941 – present
and 12 more in the atlas.
2000 – 209915 rows · 13 wars and battles
- 2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh · battle · 2023
- 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict · war · 2016
- COVID-19 pandemic in Azerbaijan · plague · 2020
- Battle of Shusha · battle · 2020
- Armenia–Azerbaijan border crisis · war · 2021
- Blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh · battle · 2022
- September 2022 Armenia–Azerbaijan clashes · war · 2022
- 2000 Baku earthquake · disaster · 2000
and 7 more in the atlas.
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 stood35 years
stood longer than 28% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held78,400 km²
held more ground at its peak than 40% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century6.0
had more wars on record per century than 100% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- Rulers on record6
has more rulers on record than 69% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 19 causes the record names and 0 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1981 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1992, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q227 (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.