State · 1844 – present
Dominican Republic
A state of 1844 – present — 182 years, still standing in the Americas and Oceania. The atlas records 68 things within it — wars and battles 5 · famine and plague 1 · people 62. Its line of rulers holds 66 people, 27 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
- 182 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 66
- the President of the Dominican Republic
- Most ground
- 52,800 km²
- in 1846
- Within it
- 68
- 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 the Dominican Republic - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| José María Caminero | 1844 – 1844 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| José Antonio Salcedo | 1863 – 1864 | 1 year | killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Benigno Filomeno de Rojas | 1865 – 1865 | under a year | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Pedro Guillermo | 1865 – 1865 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Marcos Antonio Cabral | 1876 – 1876 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Jacinto de Castro | 1878 – 1878 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Fernando Arturo de Meriño | 1880 – 1882 | 2 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Ulises Heureaux | 1882 – 1884 | 2 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Francisco Gregorio Billini | 1884 – 1885 | 1 year | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Ulises Heureaux | 1887 – 1889 | 2 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Manuel María Gautier | 1889 – 1889 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Ulises Heureaux | 1889 – 1899 | 10 years | killedWikidata's manner of death | |
| Ramón Cáceres | 1906 – 1911 | 5 years | killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| José Bordas Valdez | 1913 – 1914 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Juan Isidro Jimenes | 1914 – 1916 | 2 years | deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Horacio Vásquez | 1924 – 1930 | 6 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Rafael Trujillo | 1930 – 1938 | 8 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Rafael Trujillo | 1942 – 1952 | 10 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Joaquín Balaguer | 1960 – 1962 | 2 years | deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Juan Bosch | 1963 – 1963 | under a year | deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Pedro Bartolomé Benoit | 1965 – 1965 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Antonio Imbert Barrera | 1965 – 1965 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Héctor García-Godoy | 1965 – 1966 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Joaquín Balaguer | 1966 – 1978 | 12 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Antonio Guzmán Fernández | 1978 – 1982 | 4 years | died by suicideWikidata's manner of death | |
| Jacobo Majluta | 1982 – 1982 | under a year | served out the term, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Salvador Jorge Blanco | 1982 – 1986 | 4 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Joaquín Balaguer | 1986 – 1996 | 10 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Leonel Fernández | 1996 – 2000 | 4 years | ending not on record | |
| Hipólito Mejía | 2000 – 2004 | 4 years | ending not on record | |
| Leonel Fernández | 2004 – 2012 | 8 years | ending not on record | |
| Danilo Medina | 2012 – 2020 | 8 years | ending not on record | |
| Luis Abinader | 2020 – in office | in office since 2020 | still in office |
66 rulers, 27 with terms dated as terms, covering 1844 – 2020. Median reign 2 years. 9 of 32 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 0.68, limit 0.6). A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
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.
52,800 km² in 1854, 52,800 km² in 2024; at its largest 52,800 km² in 1854. 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.
coat of arms, from 1845Coat of arms of the Dominican Republic · Public domain 
flag, from 1862Flag of the Dominican Republic · 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.
1800 – 189942 rows · 2 wars and battles
- Rafael Trujillo · ruler · 1891 – 1961
- Juan Pablo Duarte · ruler · 1813 – 1876
- Pedro Santana · ruler · 1801 – 1864
- Ulises Heureaux · ruler · 1845 – 1899
- Buenaventura Báez · ruler · 1812 – 1884
- Francisco del Rosario Sánchez · ruler · 1817 – 1861
- Horacio Vásquez · ruler · 1860 – 1936
- Ramón Cáceres · ruler · 1866 – 1911
and 34 more in the atlas.
1900 – 199923 rows · 3 wars and battles
- Danilo Medina · ruler · 1951 – present
- Leonel Fernández · ruler · 1953 – present
- Luis Abinader · ruler · 1967 – present
- Joaquín Balaguer · ruler · 1906 – 2002
- Salvador Jorge Blanco · ruler · 1926 – 2010
- Juan Bosch · ruler · 1909 – 2001
- Antonio Guzmán Fernández · ruler · 1911 – 1982
- Hipólito Mejía · ruler · 1941 – present
and 15 more in the atlas.
2000 – 20991 row
- COVID-19 pandemic in the Dominican Republic · 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 stood182 years
stood longer than 60% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held52,800 km²
held more ground at its peak than 35% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century1.1
had more wars on record per century than 96% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median2 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 5% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record66
has more rulers on record than 99% 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, 1826 – 2044, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1846, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q786 (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.