State · 1993 – present

Eritrea

A state of 1993 – present — 33 years, still standing in the Middle East and North Africa. The atlas records 2 things within it — famine and plague 1 · people 1. Its line of rulers holds 1 person.

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: 33 years; and still standing
Rulers: 1; the President of Eritrea
Most ground: 126,900 km²; in 1992
Within it: 2; recorded rows
Symbols: 2; on record, with years

Map: Eritrea in 1992, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Eritrea in 1992, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 126,900 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

Rulers

The line of President of Eritrea - the office this state names as its head of state.

still in office

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Isaias Afwerki	1993 – in office	in office since 1993	still in office

1 rulers, 1 with terms dated as terms, covering 1993 – 1993. 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.

126,900 km² in 1993, 126,900 km² in 2023; at its largest 126,900 km² in 1993. 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 1993Emblem of Eritrea (or argent azur) · Public domain
flag, from 1995Flag of Eritrea · 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 – 19991 row

Isaias Afwerki · ruler · 1946 – present

2000 – 20991 row

COVID-19 pandemic in Eritrea · 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 stood33 years
stood longer than 27% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held126,900 km²
held more ground at its peak than 50% 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 record1
has more rulers on record than 13% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1983 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1992, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q986 (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.