State · 1959 – present
Cuba
A state of 1959 – present — 67 years, still standing in the Americas and Oceania. It replaced Republic of Cuba and followed Captaincy General of Cuba. The atlas records 19 things within it — wars and battles 4 · unrest and atrocity 2 · famine and plague 1 · people 12. Its line of rulers holds 3 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
- 67 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 3
- the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba
- Most ground
- 124,800 km²
- in 1960
- Within it
- 19
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 2
- 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
- Republic of Cuba · replaces · 1902 – 1959
- Captaincy General of Cuba · follows
Rulers
The leaders of its ruling party - the line the atlas measures; its formal heads of state are listed with the government below.
1 terms are shared from [object Object].
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fidel Castro | 1961 – 2011 | 50 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Raúl Castro | 2011 – 2021 | 10 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | sibling |
| Miguel Díaz-Canel | 2021 – in office | in office since 2021 | still in office |
3 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 1961 – 2021. Median reign 30 years. 1 of 2 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”.
Formal heads of state and heads of government
The line of Prime Minister of Cuba, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Carlos Mendieta | lived 1873 – 1960 |
| Alberto Herrera Franchi | lived 1874 – 1954 |
| Ramón Grau | lived 1881 – 1969 |
| Andrés Domingo y Morales del Castillo | lived 1892 – 1979 |
| Carlos Hevia | lived 1900 – 1964 |
| Andrés Rivero Agüero | lived 1905 – 1996 |
| Fulgencio Batista | 1952 – 1959 |
| Jorge García Montes | 1955 – 1957 |
| Emilio Núñez Portuondo | 1958 – 1958 |
| Gonzalo Güell | 1958 – 1959 |
| Fidel Castro | 1959 – 2008 |
| Anselmo Alliegro y Milá | 1959 – 1959 |
| Carlos Manuel Piedra | 1959 – 1959 |
| Manuel Urrutia Lleó | 1959 – 1959 |
| Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado | 1959 – 1976 |
| Fidel Castro | 1976 – 2008 |
| Raúl Castro | 2006 – 2008 |
| Raúl Castro | 2008 – 2018 |
| Raúl Castro | 2008 – 2018 |
| Miguel Díaz-Canel | 2018 – 2019 |
| Miguel Díaz-Canel | 2018 – … |
| Manuel Marrero Cruz | 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.
124,800 km² in 1969, 124,800 km² in 2019; at its largest 124,800 km² in 1969. 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 1849Flag of Cuba · Public domain 
coat of arms, from 1906Coat of arms of Cuba · 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 – 199913 rows · 4 wars and battles · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Raúl Castro · ruler · 1931 – present
- Cuban Missile Crisis · war · 1962
- Miguel Díaz-Canel · ruler · 1960 – present
- Bay of Pigs Invasion · battle · 1961
- Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado · ruler · 1919 – 1983
- Manuel Urrutia Lleó · ruler · 1901 – 1981
- Aleida Guevara · scientist · 1960 – present
- Elián González · commander · 1993 – present
and 5 more in the atlas.
2000 – 20992 rows · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- 2021 Cuban protests · unrest · 2021
- COVID-19 pandemic in Cuba · plague · 2020
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 stood67 years
stood longer than 39% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held124,800 km²
held more ground at its peak than 50% 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 median50 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 95% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record3
has more rulers on record than 48% 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, 1949 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1960, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q241 (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.