State · 1978 – present
Dominica
A state of 1978 – present — 48 years, still standing in the Americas and Oceania. It followed West Indies Federation. The atlas records 13 things within it — unrest and atrocity 1 · famine and plague 1 · people 11. Its line of rulers holds 12 people, 8 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
- 48 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 12
- the president of Dominica
- Most ground
- 1,300 km²
- in 1979
- Within it
- 13
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 6
- 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
- West Indies Federation · follows
Rulers
The line of president of Dominica - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fred Degazon | 1979 – 1980 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Clarence Seignoret | 1983 – 1993 | 10 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Crispin Sorhaindo | 1993 – 1998 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Vernon Shaw | 1998 – 2003 | 5 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Nicholas Liverpool | 2003 – 2012 | 9 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Eliud Williams | 2012 – 2013 | 1 year | ending not on record | |
| Charles Savarin | 2013 – 2023 | 10 years | ending not on record | |
| Sylvanie Burton | 2023 – in office | in office since 2023 | still in office |
12 rulers, 8 with terms dated as terms, covering 1979 – 2023. Only 44 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 0 of 7 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 0.87, 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 Dominica, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Patrick John | 1978 – 1979 |
| Oliver Seraphin | 1979 – 1980 |
| Eugenia Charles | 1980 – 1995 |
| Edison James | 1995 – 2000 |
| Rosie Douglas | 2000 – 2000 |
| Pierre Charles | 2000 – 2004 |
| Osborne Riviere | 2004 – 2004 |
| Roosevelt Skerrit | 2004 – … |
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.
1,300 km² in 1983, 1,300 km² in 2023; at its largest 1,300 km² in 1983. 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_Dominica_(1978%E2%80%931981).svg.png)
flag, undatedFlag of Dominica (1978–1981) · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_Dominica_(1965%E2%80%931978).svg.png)
flag, 1961 – 1978Flag of Dominica (1965–1978) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · vectored by FOX 52 
coat of arms, from 1961Coat of arms of Dominica · Attribution · See File History , below, for details. .svg/120px-Flag_of_Dominica_(1981%E2%80%931988).svg.png)
flag, 1981 – 1988Flag of Dominica (1981–1988) · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_Dominica_(1988%E2%80%931990).svg.png)
flag, 1988 – 1990Flag of Dominica (1988–1990) · Public domain 
flag, from 1990Flag of Dominica · 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 – 199912 rows · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Nicholas Liverpool · ruler · 1934 – 2015
- Charles Savarin · ruler · 1943 – present
- Sylvanie Burton · ruler · 1956 – present
- Eliud Williams · ruler · 1948 – present
- Vernon Shaw · ruler · 1930 – 2013
- Fred Degazon · ruler · 1913 – 2008
- Clarence Seignoret · ruler · 1919 – 2002
- Louis Cools-Lartigue · ruler · 1905 – 1993
and 4 more in the atlas.
2000 – 20991 row
- COVID-19 pandemic in Dominica · 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 stood48 years
stood longer than 33% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held1,300 km²
held more ground at its peak than 3% 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 record12
has more rulers on record than 84% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 1 cause 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, 1968 – 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 Q784 (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.