Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 1971 – present

Bangladesh

A state of 1971 – present — 55 years, still standing in South Asia. The atlas records 30 things within it — wars and battles 1 · unrest and atrocity 7 · famine and plague 2 · people 20. Its line of rulers holds 20 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
55 years
and still standing
Rulers
20
the President of Bangladesh
Most ground
145,100 km²
in 1973
Within it
30
recorded rows
Symbols
3
on record, with years
Map: Bangladesh in 1973, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Bangladesh in 1973, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 145,100 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Bangladesh: 1971 – 2026

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

Rulers

The line of President of Bangladesh - the office this state names as its head of state.

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman · 1971 – 1972 · left office aliveSyed Nazrul Islam · 1971 – 1972 · left office aliveAbu Sayeed Chowdhury · 1972 – 1973 · resigned or stood down, the article saysMohammad Mohammadullah · 1973 – 1975 · left office aliveSheikh Mujibur Rahman · 1975 – 1975 · killedKhondaker Mostaq Ahmad · 1975 – 1975 · deposed, the article saysAbu Sadat Mohammad Sayem · 1975 – 1977 · resigned or stood down, the article saysZiaur Rahman · 1977 – 1981 · killedAbdus Sattar · 1981 – 1982 · deposed, the article saysA. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury · 1982 – 1983 · left office aliveHussain Muhammad Ershad · 1983 – 1990 · deposed, the article saysShahabuddin Ahmed · 1990 – 1991 · resigned or stood down, the article saysAbdur Rahman Biswas · 1991 – 1996 · left office aliveShahabuddin Ahmed · 1996 – 2001 · resigned or stood down, the article saysA. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury · 2001 – 2002 · resigned or stood down, the article saysMuhammad Jamiruddin Sircar · 2002 – 2002 · left office aliveIajuddin Ahmed · 2002 – 2009 · resigned or stood down, the article saysZillur Rahman · 2009 – 2013 · died in office, manner not recordedMohammad Abdul Hamid · 2013 – 2023 · no death date to read the end againstMohammed Shahabuddin · 2023 – 2026 · resigned or stood down, the article saysHafiz Uddin Ahmad · 2026 – … · still in officeMirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir · 2026 – … · still in office19801990200020102020
killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman1971 – 19721 yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Syed Nazrul Islam1971 – 19721 yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Abu Sayeed Chowdhury1972 – 19731 yearresigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Mohammad Mohammadullah1973 – 19752 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman1975 – 1975under a yearkilledWikidata's manner of death
Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad1975 – 1975under a yeardeposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem1975 – 19772 yearsresigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Ziaur Rahman1977 – 19814 yearskilledWikidata's manner of death
Abdus Sattar1981 – 19821 yeardeposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury1982 – 19831 yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Hussain Muhammad Ershad1983 – 19907 yearsdeposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Shahabuddin Ahmed1990 – 19911 yearresigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Abdur Rahman Biswas1991 – 19965 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Shahabuddin Ahmed1996 – 20015 yearsresigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury2001 – 20021 yearresigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar2002 – 2002under a yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Iajuddin Ahmed2002 – 20097 yearsresigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Zillur Rahman2009 – 20134 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Mohammad Abdul Hamid2013 – 202310 yearsending not on record
Mohammed Shahabuddin2023 – 20263 yearsresigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Hafiz Uddin Ahmad2026 – in officein office since 2026still in office
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir2026 – in officein office since 2026still in office

20 rulers, 20 with terms dated as terms, covering 1971 – 2026. Median reign 1.5 years. 11 of 21 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 Bangladesh, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.

Tajuddin Ahmad1971 – 1972
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman1972 – 1975
Muhammad Mansur Ali1975 – 1975
Shah Azizur Rahman1979 – 1982
Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury1986 – 1988
Moudud Ahmed1988 – 1989
Kazi Zafar Ahmed1989 – 1990
Khaleda Zia1991 – 1996
Muhammad Habibur Rahman1996 – 1996
Sheikh Hasina1996 – 2001
Latifur Rahman2001 – 2001
Khaleda Zia2001 – 2006
Iajuddin Ahmed2006 – 2007
Fazlul Haque2007 – 2007
Fakhruddin Ahmed2007 – 2009
Sheikh Hasina2009 – 2024
Muhammad Yunus2024 – 2026
Tarique Rahman2026 – …

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.

1990200020102020

145,100 km² in 1981, 145,100 km² in 2021; at its largest 145,100 km² in 1981. 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.

  • National emblem of Bangladesh
    coat of arms, from 1971National emblem of Bangladesh · Public domain
  • Flag of Bangladesh (1971)
    flag, 1971 – 1972Flag of Bangladesh (1971) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Himasaram / Nirvik12 (Valid SVG Version)
  • Flag of Bangladesh
    flag, from 1972Flag of Bangladesh · 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 – 1999: 24 recorded — 1 wars and battles, 2 risings, regime changes and massacres, 21 other19002000 – 2099: 6 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 5 risings, regime changes and massacres, 1 other2000

1900 – 199924 rows · 1 wars and battles · 2 risings, regime changes and massacres

and 16 more in the atlas.

2000 – 20996 rows · 5 risings, regime changes and massacres

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 stood55 years

    stood longer than 35% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held145,100 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 53% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.

  • Wars recorded per century1.0

    had more wars on record per century than 94% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.

  • How long a reign lasted, at the median2 years

    had longer reigns, at the median, than 5% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.

  • Rulers on record20

    has more rulers on record than 91% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 13 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.

Mughal Empire · In the article · 1526 · “Following the decline of the Mughal Empire in the early 1700s, the region became a semi-independent state under the Nawabs of Bengal, founded by Murshid Quli …”Mughal EmpireAbdul Hamid Khan Bhashani · Coincidence · 1880 – 1976Abdul Hamid Khan BhashaniKazi Nazrul Islam · Coincidence · 1899 – 1976Kazi Nazrul IslamM. A. G. Osmani · Coincidence · 1918 – 1984M. A. G. OsmaniMuhammad Mansur Ali · Coincidence · 1919 – 1975Muhammad Mansur AliGhulam Azam · Coincidence · 1922 – 2014Ghulam AzamBangladesh · 1971 – 2026Bangladesh16001700180019002000
in the articlecoincidence

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

Wikidata Q902 (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.