State · 1917 – present
Finland
A state of 1917 – present — 109 years, still standing in Europe. It replaced Kingdom of Finland and Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic. The atlas records 65 things within it — wars and battles 33 · unrest and atrocity 4 · famine and plague 2 · treaties 6 · people 20. Its line of rulers holds 13 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
- 109 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 13
- the President of Finland
- Most ground
- 444,900 km²
- in 1942
- Within it
- 65
- 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
- Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic · replaces · 1918
- Kingdom of Finland · replaces · 1918 – 1919
Rulers
The line of President of Finland - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg | 1919 – 1925 | 6 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Lauri Kristian Relander | 1925 – 1931 | 6 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Pehr Evind Svinhufvud | 1931 – 1937 | 6 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Kyösti Kallio | 1937 – 1940 | 3 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | |
| Risto Ryti | 1940 – 1944 | 4 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim | 1944 – 1946 | 2 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Juho Kusti Paasikivi | 1946 – 1956 | 10 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Urho Kekkonen | 1956 – 1982 | 26 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Mauno Koivisto | 1982 – 1994 | 12 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Martti Ahtisaari | 1994 – 2000 | 6 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Tarja Halonen | 2000 – 2012 | 12 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Sauli Niinistö | 2012 – 2024 | 12 years | ending not on record | |
| Alexander Stubb | 2024 – in office | in office since 2024 | still in office |
13 rulers, 13 with terms dated as terms, covering 1919 – 2024. Median reign 6 years. 0 of 12 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 0.65, 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 Finland, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Pehr Evind Svinhufvud | 1917 – 1918 |
| Juho Kusti Paasikivi | 1918 – 1918 |
| Lauri Ingman | 1918 – 1919 |
| Juho Vennola | 1919 – 1920 |
| Kaarlo Castrén | 1919 – 1919 |
| Rafael Erich | 1920 – 1921 |
| Juho Vennola | 1921 – 1922 |
| Kyösti Kallio | 1922 – 1924 |
| Aimo Cajander | 1922 – 1922 |
| Aimo Cajander | 1924 – 1924 |
| Lauri Ingman | 1924 – 1925 |
| Kyösti Kallio | 1925 – 1926 |
| Antti Tulenheimo | 1925 – 1925 |
| Väinö Tanner | 1926 – 1927 |
| Juho Sunila | 1927 – 1928 |
| Oskari Mantere | 1928 – 1929 |
| Kyösti Kallio | 1929 – 1930 |
| Pehr Evind Svinhufvud | 1930 – 1931 |
| Juho Sunila | 1931 – 1932 |
| Toivo Mikael Kivimäki | 1932 – 1936 |
| Kyösti Kallio | 1936 – 1937 |
| Aimo Cajander | 1937 – 1939 |
| Risto Ryti | 1939 – 1940 |
| Johan Wilhelm Rangell | 1941 – 1943 |
| Edwin Linkomies | 1943 – 1944 |
| Urho Castrén | 1944 – 1944 |
| Juho Kusti Paasikivi | 1944 – 1946 |
| Antti Hackzell | 1944 – 1944 |
| Mauno Pekkala | 1946 – 1948 |
| Karl-August Fagerholm | 1948 – 1950 |
| Urho Kekkonen | 1950 – 1953 |
| Sakari Tuomioja | 1953 – 1953 |
| Urho Kekkonen | 1954 – 1956 |
| Ralf Törngren | 1954 – 1954 |
| Karl-August Fagerholm | 1956 – 1957 |
| V. J. Sukselainen | 1957 – 1957 |
| Rainer von Fieandt | 1957 – 1958 |
| Karl-August Fagerholm | 1958 – 1959 |
| Reino Kuuskoski | 1958 – 1958 |
| V. J. Sukselainen | 1959 – 1961 |
| Martti Miettunen | 1961 – 1962 |
| Ahti Karjalainen | 1962 – 1963 |
| Reino Ragnar Lehto | 1963 – 1964 |
| Johannes Virolainen | 1964 – 1966 |
| Rafael Paasio | 1966 – 1968 |
| Mauno Koivisto | 1968 – 1970 |
| Ahti Karjalainen | 1970 – 1971 |
| Teuvo Aura | 1971 – 1972 |
| Kalevi Sorsa | 1972 – 1975 |
| Rafael Paasio | 1972 – 1972 |
| Keijo Liinamaa | 1975 – 1975 |
| Martti Miettunen | 1975 – 1976 |
| Kalevi Sorsa | 1977 – 1979 |
| Mauno Koivisto | 1979 – 1982 |
| Kalevi Sorsa | 1982 – 1987 |
| Harri Holkeri | 1987 – 1991 |
| Esko Aho | 1991 – 1995 |
| Paavo Lipponen | 1995 – 2003 |
| Matti Vanhanen | 2003 – 2010 |
| Anneli Jäätteenmäki | 2003 – 2003 |
| Mari Kiviniemi | 2010 – 2011 |
| Jyrki Katainen | 2011 – 2014 |
| Alexander Stubb | 2014 – 2015 |
| Juha Sipilä | 2015 – 2019 |
| Antti Rinne | 2019 – 2019 |
| Sanna Marin | 2019 – 2023 |
| Petteri Orpo | 2023 – … |
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.
374,300 km² in 1927, 335,000 km² in 2017; at its largest 374,300 km² in 1927. 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 Finland · Public domain 
coat of arms, from 1978Coat of arms of Finland · 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 – 199954 rows · 33 wars and battles · 2 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Linus Torvalds · inventor · 1969 – present
- Martti Ahtisaari · ruler · 1937 – 2023
- Sauli Niinistö · ruler · 1948 – present
- Sanna Marin · politician · 1985 – present
- Tarja Halonen · ruler · 1943 – present
- Winter War · war · 1939 – 1940
- Urho Kekkonen · ruler · 1900 – 1986
- Alexander Stubb · ruler · 1968 – present
and 46 more in the atlas.
2000 – 20994 rows · 2 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Jokela school shooting · atrocity · 2007
- Kauhajoki school shooting · atrocity · 2008
- COVID-19 pandemic in Finland · plague · 2020
- COVID-19 pandemic in Åland · 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 stood109 years
stood longer than 49% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held444,900 km²
held more ground at its peak than 72% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century5.5
had more wars on record per century than 99% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median6 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 22% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record13
has more rulers on record than 85% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 18 causes 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, 1906 – 2037, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1942, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q33 (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.