State · 1947 – 1956
Dominion of Pakistan
A state of 1947 – 1956 — 9 years in South Asia. It replaced British Raj, Khanate of Kalat and Bahawalpur State and 13 more. It was replaced by Pakistan. The atlas records 11 things within it — wars and battles 1 · people 10. Its line of rulers holds 2 people. Its own article says it was dissolved.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 9 years
- 1947 – 1956
- Rulers
- 2
- the monarch of the Dominion of Pakistan
- Most ground
- 1.02 million km²
- in 1948
- Within it
- 11
- 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
- Kingdom of Chitral · replaces · 1571 – 1969
- British Raj · replaces · 1858 – 1947
- Khanate of Kalat · replaces · 1638 – 1955
- Hunza State · replaces · 1600 – 1974
- Lasbela · replaces · 1742 – 1955
- Jandol State · replaces
- Amb State · replaces · 1900 – 1969
- Makran · replaces · 1701 – 1955
- Kharan State · replaces · 1697 – 1955
- Dir State · replaces · 1900 – 1969
- Swat State · replaces · 1849 – 1969
- Phulra · replaces · 1828 – 1950
- Khairpur State · replaces · 1775 – 1955
- Nagar State · replaces · 1400 – 1974
- The Punial State · replaces
- Bahawalpur State · replaces · 1690 – 1955
After it
- Pakistan · replaced by · 1956 – present
How it ended, as its article says
Dissolved, 1956-03-23. Read from the article's section “lead” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.
The dominion ceased to exist on 23 March 1956, when the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan adopted a constitution which established Pakistan as a republic.
One sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rulers
The line of monarch of the Dominion of Pakistan.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| George VI | 1947 – 1952 | 5 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | |
| Elizabeth II | 1952 – 1956 | 4 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | child |
2 rulers, 2 with terms dated as terms, covering 1947 – 1956. Only 9 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 0 of 1 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 0.70, 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 Pakistan, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Liaquat Ali Khan | 1947 – 1951 |
| Khwaja Nazimuddin | 1951 – 1953 |
| Mohammad Ali Bogra | 1953 – 1955 |
| Chaudhry Muhammad Ali | 1955 – 1956 |
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.
939,100 km² in 1947, 1.02 million km² in 1956; at its largest 1.02 million km² in 1952. 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, undatedFlag of Pakistan · Public domain 
coat of arms, undatedState emblem of Pakistan · 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 – 199911 rows · 1 wars and battles
- Benazir Bhutto · politician · 1953 – 2007
- Sheikh Hasina · politician · 1947 – present
- Imran Khan · politician · 1952 – present
- Shehbaz Sharif · politician · 1951 – present
- Yousaf Raza Gillani · politician · 1952 – present
- Khawaja Asif · politician · 1949 – present
- Ahmed Rashid · writer · 1948 – present
- Ashfaq Parvez Kayani · politician · 1952 – present
and 3 more in the atlas.
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 stood9 years
stood longer than 17% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held1,023,000 km²
held more ground at its peak than 85% 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: 17 causes the record names and 1 result, 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, 1937 – 1966, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1948, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q2006542 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · one sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.