State · 1977 – present
Djibouti
A state of 1977 – present — 49 years, still standing in sub-Saharan Africa. It replaced French Territory of the Afars and the Issas. The atlas records 5 things within it — wars and battles 1 · unrest and atrocity 1 · famine and plague 1 · people 2. Its line of rulers holds 2 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
- 49 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 2
- the President of Djibouti
- Most ground
- 22,200 km²
- in 1979
- Within it
- 5
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 2
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.
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
- French Territory of the Afars and the Issas · replaces
Rulers
The line of President of Djibouti - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hassan Gouled Aptidon | 1977 – 1999 | 22 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Ismaïl Omar Guelleh | 1999 – in office | in office since 1999 | still in office |
2 rulers, 2 with terms dated as terms, covering 1977 – 1999. Only 22 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 1 of 1 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 Prime Minister of Djibouti, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Ali Aref Bourhan | lived 1934 – 2025 |
| Hassan Gouled Aptidon | 1977 – 1977 |
| Ahmed Dini Ahmed | 1977 – 1978 |
| Abdallah Mohamed Kamil | 1978 – 1978 |
| Barkat Gourad Hamadou | 1978 – 2001 |
| Dileita Mohamed Dileita | 2001 – 2013 |
| Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed | 2013 – … |
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.
22,200 km² in 1982, 22,100 km² in 2022; at its largest 22,200 km² in 1982. 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 1977Flag of Djibouti · Public domain 
coat of arms, from 1977Emblem of Djibouti · 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 – 19992 rows
- Ismaïl Omar Guelleh · ruler · 1947 – present
- Hassan Gouled Aptidon · ruler · 1916 – 2006
2000 – 20993 rows · 1 wars and battles · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Djiboutian–Eritrean border conflict · war · 2008
- COVID-19 pandemic in Djibouti · plague · 2020
- 2011 Djiboutian protests · unrest · 2011
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 stood49 years
stood longer than 33% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held22,200 km²
held more ground at its peak than 23% 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.
- Rulers on record2
has more rulers on record than 34% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 6 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, 1967 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1979, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q977 (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.