State · 1918 – present
Estonia
A state of 1918 – present — 108 years, still standing in Europe. It replaced Soviet Union, Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic and United Baltic Duchy and 3 more. The atlas records 34 things within it — wars and battles 16 · regime change 1 · unrest and atrocity 2 · famine and plague 1 · treaties 2 · people 12. Its line of rulers holds 6 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
- 108 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 6
- the President of Estonia
- Most ground
- 48,300 km²
- in 1920
- Within it
- 34
- 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
- Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic · replaces · 1940 – 1991
- Soviet Union · replaces · 1923 – 1991
- Livonia Governorate · replaces
- Pskov Governorate · replaces
- Estonia Governorate · replaces
- United Baltic Duchy · replaces · 1918
Rulers
The line of President of Estonia - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Konstantin Päts | 1938 – 1940 | 2 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Lennart Meri | 1992 – 2001 | 9 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Arnold Rüütel | 2001 – 2006 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Toomas Hendrik Ilves | 2006 – 2016 | 10 years | ending not on record | |
| Kersti Kaljulaid | 2016 – 2021 | 5 years | ending not on record | |
| Alar Karis | 2021 – in office | in office since 2021 | still in office |
6 rulers, 6 with terms dated as terms, covering 1938 – 2021. Median reign 5 years. 0 of 5 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 Estonia, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Konstantin Päts | 1918 – 1919 |
| Otto Strandman | 1919 – 1919 |
| Ado Birk | 1920 – 1920 |
| Jaan Tõnisson | 1920 – 1920 |
| Ants Piip | 1920 – 1920 |
| Kaarel Eenpalu | 1938 – 1939 |
| Jüri Uluots | 1939 – 1940 |
| Johannes Vares | 1940 – 1940 |
| Otto Tief | 1944 – 1953 |
| Edgar Savisaar | 1991 – 1992 |
| Mart Laar | 1992 – 1994 |
| Tiit Vähi | 1992 – 1992 |
| Andres Tarand | 1994 – 1995 |
| Tiit Vähi | 1995 – 1997 |
| Mart Siimann | 1997 – 1999 |
| Mart Laar | 1999 – 2002 |
| Siim Kallas | 2002 – 2003 |
| Juhan Parts | 2003 – 2005 |
| Andrus Ansip | 2005 – 2007 |
| Andrus Ansip | 2007 – 2011 |
| Andrus Ansip | 2011 – 2014 |
| Taavi Rõivas | 2014 – 2016 |
| Jüri Ratas | 2016 – 2021 |
| Kaja Kallas | 2021 – 2024 |
| Kristen Michal | 2024 – … |
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.
48,300 km² in 1928, 48,300 km² in 2018; at its largest 48,300 km² in 1928. 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 1918Flag of Estonia · Public domain 
coat of arms, from 1925Coat of arms of Estonia · 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 – 199931 rows · 16 wars and battles · 3 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Kaja Kallas · politician · 1977 – present
- Kersti Kaljulaid · ruler · 1969 – present
- Operation Barbarossa · war · 1941
- Toomas Hendrik Ilves · ruler · 1953 – present
- Alar Karis · ruler · 1958 – present
- Arnold Rüütel · ruler · 1928 – 2024
- Kronstadt rebellion · unrest · 1921
- Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow · religious leader · 1929 – 2008
and 23 more in the atlas.
2000 – 20991 row
- COVID-19 pandemic in Estonia · 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 stood108 years
stood longer than 48% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held48,300 km²
held more ground at its peak than 34% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century1.9
had more wars on record per century than 97% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median5 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 18% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record6
has more rulers on record than 69% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 20 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, 1907 – 2037, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1920, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q191 (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.