State · 1960 – present
Chad
A state of 1960 – present — 66 years, still standing in the Middle East and North Africa. The atlas records 17 things within it — wars and battles 6 · unrest and atrocity 1 · famine and plague 1 · people 9. Its line of rulers holds 8 people, 6 with dated terms.
- 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
- 66 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 8
- the President of Chad
- Most ground
- 1.28 million km²
- in 1961
- Within it
- 17
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 2
- 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 Chad - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| François Tombalbaye | 1960 – 1975 | 15 years | killedWikidata's manner of death | |
| Lol Mahamat Choua | 1979 – 1979 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Goukouni Oueddei | 1979 – 1982 | 3 years | ending not on record | |
| Hissène Habré | 1982 – 1990 | 8 years | deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Idriss Déby | 1990 – 2021 | 31 years | died in battleWikidata's manner of death | |
| Mahamat Déby | 2021 – in office | in office since 2021 | still in office | child |
8 rulers, 6 with terms dated as terms, covering 1960 – 2021. Median reign 8 years. 3 of 5 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Heads of government
The line of head of government, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Albert Pahimi Padacké | 2016 – 2018 |
| Idriss Déby | 2018 – 2021 |
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.
1.28 million km² in 1970, 1.28 million km² in 2020; at its largest 1.28 million km² in 1970. 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.
flag, from 1959Flag of Chad · Public domain 
coat of arms, from 1969Coat of arms of Chad · CC BY 3.0 · Milenioscuro
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 – 199913 rows · 4 wars and battles
- Idriss Déby · ruler · 1952 – 2021
- Hissène Habré · ruler · 1942 – 2021
- Mahamat Déby · ruler · 1984 – present
- François Tombalbaye · ruler · 1918 – 1975
- Félix Malloum · ruler · 1932 – 2009
- Moussa Faki · politician · 1960 – present
- Chadian–Libyan War · war · 1978 – 1987
- Goukouni Oueddei · ruler · 1944 – present
and 5 more in the atlas.
2000 – 20994 rows · 2 wars and battles · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Chadian Civil War · war · 2005 – 2010
- COVID-19 pandemic in Chad · plague · 2020
- Insurgency in Chad · unrest · 2016
- 2021 Northern Chad offensive · battle · 2021
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 stood66 years
stood longer than 38% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held1,277,300 km²
held more ground at its peak than 87% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century4.0
had more wars on record per century than 99% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median8 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 29% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record8
has more rulers on record than 76% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1950 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1961, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q657 (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.