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
Where it sits in time
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.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sheikh Mujibur Rahman | 1971 – 1972 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Syed Nazrul Islam | 1971 – 1972 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Abu Sayeed Chowdhury | 1972 – 1973 | 1 year | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Mohammad Mohammadullah | 1973 – 1975 | 2 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Sheikh Mujibur Rahman | 1975 – 1975 | under a year | killedWikidata's manner of death | |
| Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad | 1975 – 1975 | under a year | deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem | 1975 – 1977 | 2 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Ziaur Rahman | 1977 – 1981 | 4 years | killedWikidata's manner of death | |
| Abdus Sattar | 1981 – 1982 | 1 year | deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury | 1982 – 1983 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Hussain Muhammad Ershad | 1983 – 1990 | 7 years | deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Shahabuddin Ahmed | 1990 – 1991 | 1 year | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Abdur Rahman Biswas | 1991 – 1996 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Shahabuddin Ahmed | 1996 – 2001 | 5 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury | 2001 – 2002 | 1 year | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar | 2002 – 2002 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Iajuddin Ahmed | 2002 – 2009 | 7 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Zillur Rahman | 2009 – 2013 | 4 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Mohammad Abdul Hamid | 2013 – 2023 | 10 years | ending not on record | |
| Mohammed Shahabuddin | 2023 – 2026 | 3 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Hafiz Uddin Ahmad | 2026 – in office | in office since 2026 | still in office | |
| Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir | 2026 – in office | in office since 2026 | still 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 Ahmad | 1971 – 1972 |
| Sheikh Mujibur Rahman | 1972 – 1975 |
| Muhammad Mansur Ali | 1975 – 1975 |
| Shah Azizur Rahman | 1979 – 1982 |
| Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury | 1986 – 1988 |
| Moudud Ahmed | 1988 – 1989 |
| Kazi Zafar Ahmed | 1989 – 1990 |
| Khaleda Zia | 1991 – 1996 |
| Muhammad Habibur Rahman | 1996 – 1996 |
| Sheikh Hasina | 1996 – 2001 |
| Latifur Rahman | 2001 – 2001 |
| Khaleda Zia | 2001 – 2006 |
| Iajuddin Ahmed | 2006 – 2007 |
| Fazlul Haque | 2007 – 2007 |
| Fakhruddin Ahmed | 2007 – 2009 |
| Sheikh Hasina | 2009 – 2024 |
| Muhammad Yunus | 2024 – 2026 |
| Tarique Rahman | 2026 – … |
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.
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.

coat of arms, from 1971National emblem of Bangladesh · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_Bangladesh_(1971).svg.png)
flag, 1971 – 1972Flag of Bangladesh (1971) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Himasaram / Nirvik12 (Valid SVG Version) 
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 – 199924 rows · 1 wars and battles · 2 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Sheikh Mujibur Rahman · ruler · 1920 – 1975
- Mohammad Abdul Hamid · ruler · 1944 – present
- Bangladesh Liberation War · war · 1971
- Zillur Rahman · ruler · 1929 – 2013
- Ziaur Rahman · ruler · 1936 – 1981
- Iajuddin Ahmed · ruler · 1931 – 2012
- Mohammed Shahabuddin · ruler · 1949 – present
- Hussain Muhammad Ershad · ruler · 1930 – 2019
and 16 more in the atlas.
2000 – 20996 rows · 5 risings, regime changes and massacres
- 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement · unrest · 2024
- COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh · plague · 2020
- Non-cooperation movement (2024) · unrest · 2024
- July Uprising · unrest · 2024
- 2013 Shahbag protests · unrest · 2013
- 2018 Bangladesh road-safety protests · unrest · 2018
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.
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, 1961 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1973, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
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.