State · 1990 – present
Bulgaria
A state of 1990 – present — 36 years, still standing in Europe. It replaced People's Republic of Bulgaria. The atlas records 10 things within it — unrest and atrocity 1 · famine and plague 1 · natural disasters 1 · people 7. Its line of rulers holds 7 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
- 36 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 7
- the President of Bulgaria
- Most ground
- 109,500 km²
- in 1992
- Within it
- 10
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 8
- 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
- People's Republic of Bulgaria · replaces · 1946 – 1990
Rulers
The line of President of Bulgaria - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Petar Mladenov | 1990 – 1990 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Zhelyu Zhelev | 1992 – 1997 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Petar Stoyanov | 1997 – 2002 | 5 years | ending not on record | |
| Georgi Parvanov | 2002 – 2012 | 10 years | ending not on record | |
| Rosen Plevneliev | 2012 – 2017 | 5 years | ending not on record | |
| Rumen Radev | 2017 – 2026 | 9 years | resignedWikidata's end cause on the term | |
| Iliana Iotova | 2026 – in office | in office since 2026 | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article |
7 rulers, 7 with terms dated as terms, covering 1990 – 2026. Only 36 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 0 of 6 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 0.97, 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 Bulgaria, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Goritsa Grancharova-Kozhareva | lived 1966 – … |
| Andrey Lukanov | 1990 – 1990 |
| Dimitar Iliev Popov | 1990 – 1991 |
| Philip Dimitrov | 1991 – 1992 |
| Lyuben Berov | 1992 – 1994 |
| Reneta Indzhova | 1994 – 1995 |
| Zhan Videnov | 1995 – 1997 |
| Ivan Kostov | 1997 – 2001 |
| Stefan Sofiyanski | 1997 – 1997 |
| Simeon II | 2001 – 2005 |
| Sergey Stanishev | 2005 – 2009 |
| Boyko Borisov | 2009 – 2013 |
| Plamen Oresharski | 2013 – 2014 |
| Marin Raykov | 2013 – 2013 |
| Georgi Bliznashki | 2014 – 2014 |
| Boyko Borisov | 2014 – 2017 |
| Ognyan Gerdzhikov | 2017 – 2017 |
| Boyko Borisov | 2017 – 2021 |
| Kiril Petkov | 2021 – 2022 |
| Stefan Janev | 2021 – 2021 |
| Galab Donev | 2022 – 2023 |
| Nikolai Denkov | 2023 – 2024 |
| Dimitar Glavchev | 2024 – 2025 |
| Rosen Zhelyazkov | 2025 – 2026 |
| Andrey Gyurov | 2026 – 2026 |
| Rumen Radev | 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.
109,500 km² in 1995, 109,500 km² in 2020; at its largest 109,500 km² in 1995. 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.
.svg/120px-Flag_of_Bulgaria_(digital).svg.png)
flag, from 1879Flag of Bulgaria (digital) · Public domain 
flag, 1879 – 1947Flag of Bulgaria · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_Bulgaria_(1946%E2%80%931948).svg.png)
flag, 1947 – 1948Flag of Bulgaria (1946–1948) · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_Bulgaria_(1948%E2%80%931967).svg.png)
flag, 1948 – 1968Flag of Bulgaria (1948–1967) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Scroch .svg/120px-Flag_of_Bulgaria_(1967%E2%80%931971).svg.png)
flag, 1968 – 1971Flag of Bulgaria (1967–1971) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Scroch .svg/120px-Flag_of_Bulgaria_(1971%E2%80%931990).svg.png)
flag, 1971 – 1990Flag of Bulgaria (1971–1990) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Scroch 
flag, from 1990Flag of Bulgaria · Public domain 
coat of arms, from 1997Coat of arms of Bulgaria · 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 – 19997 rows
- Rumen Radev · ruler · 1963 – present
- Georgi Parvanov · ruler · 1957 – present
- Rosen Plevneliev · ruler · 1964 – present
- Iliana Iotova · ruler · 1964 – present
- Zhelyu Zhelev · ruler · 1935 – 2015
- Petar Stoyanov · ruler · 1952 – present
- Petar Mladenov · ruler · 1936 – 2000
2000 – 20993 rows · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- COVID-19 pandemic in Bulgaria · plague · 2020
- 2020–2021 Bulgarian protests · unrest · 2020 – 2021
- 2012 Pernik earthquake · disaster · 2012
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 stood36 years
stood longer than 29% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held109,500 km²
held more ground at its peak than 47% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- Rulers on record7
has more rulers on record than 73% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 9 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, 1980 – 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 Q219 (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.