State · 1953 – 1963

Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland

A state of 1953 – 1963 — 10 years in sub-Saharan Africa. The atlas records 2 things within it — people 2. Its line of rulers holds 3 people, 2 with dated terms.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 10 years; 1953 – 1963
Rulers: 3; the Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
Within it: 2; 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 Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.

left alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Elizabeth II	1953 – 1963	10 years	ending not on record
Roy Welensky	1956 – 1963	7 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone

3 rulers, 2 with terms dated as terms, covering 1953 – 1963. Only 10 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 1 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 0.64, limit 0.6). A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

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, undatedCoat of arms of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (1953–1963) · Public domain
flag, from 1953Flag of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (1953–1963) · 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

Roy Welensky · ruler · 1907 – 1991

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 stood10 years
stood longer than 17% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
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 record3
has more rulers on record than 48% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1943 – 1973, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1958, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q654342 (CC0) · 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.