State · 1958 – present
French Fifth Republic
A state of 1958 – present — 68 years, still standing in Europe. It replaced French Fourth Republic. The atlas records 60 things within it — wars and battles 5 · regime change 1 · unrest and atrocity 14 · famine and plague 4 · natural disasters 2 · treaties 7 · people 26 · works and ideas 1. Its line of rulers holds 12 people, 11 with dated terms.
- 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
- 68 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 12
- the President of the French Republic
- Most ground
- 11.29 million km²
- in 1958
- Within it
- 60
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 2
- on record, with years
1958 · at its largest · 11.29 million km²
2024 · last mapped · 679,200 km²
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
- French Fourth Republic · replaces · 1946 – 1958
Rulers
The line of President of the French Republic - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vincent Auriol | 1947 – 1954 | 7 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| René Coty | 1954 – 1959 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Charles de Gaulle | 1959 – 1969 | 10 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Alain Poher | 1969 – 1969 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Georges Pompidou | 1969 – 1974 | 5 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | |
| Alain Poher | 1974 – 1974 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Valéry Giscard d'Estaing | 1974 – 1981 | 7 years | lost an election, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| François Mitterrand | 1981 – 1995 | 14 years | served out the term, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Jacques Chirac | 1995 – 2007 | 12 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Nicolas Sarkozy | 2007 – 2012 | 5 years | ending not on record | |
| François Hollande | 2012 – 2017 | 5 years | ending not on record | |
| Emmanuel Macron | 2017 – in office | in office since 2017 | still in office |
12 rulers, 11 with terms dated as terms, covering 1947 – 2017. Median reign 5 years. 0 of 11 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 0.78, 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 France, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Charles de Gaulle | 1959 – 1959 |
| Michel Debré | 1959 – 1962 |
| Georges Pompidou | 1962 – 1968 |
| Maurice Couve de Murville | 1968 – 1969 |
| Jacques Chaban-Delmas | 1969 – 1972 |
| Pierre Messmer | 1972 – 1974 |
| Jacques Chirac | 1974 – 1976 |
| Raymond Barre | 1976 – 1981 |
| Pierre Mauroy | 1981 – 1984 |
| Laurent Fabius | 1984 – 1986 |
| Jacques Chirac | 1986 – 1988 |
| Michel Rocard | 1988 – 1991 |
| Édith Cresson | 1991 – 1992 |
| Pierre Bérégovoy | 1992 – 1993 |
| Édouard Balladur | 1993 – 1995 |
| Alain Juppé | 1995 – 1997 |
| Lionel Jospin | 1997 – 2002 |
| Jean-Pierre Raffarin | 2002 – 2005 |
| Dominique de Villepin | 2005 – 2007 |
| François Fillon | 2007 – 2012 |
| Jean-Marc Ayrault | 2012 – 2014 |
| Manuel Valls | 2014 – 2016 |
| Bernard Cazeneuve | 2016 – 2017 |
| Édouard Philippe | 2017 – 2020 |
| Jean Castex | 2020 – 2022 |
| Élisabeth Borne | 2022 – 2024 |
| François Bayrou | 2024 – 2025 |
| Gabriel Attal | 2024 – 2024 |
| Michel Barnier | 2024 – 2024 |
| Sébastien Lecornu | 2025 – … |
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.
11.29 million km² in 1958, 3.03 million km² in 2018; at its largest 11.29 million km² in 1958. 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 France · Public domain 
coat of arms, undatedCoat of arms of the French Republic · 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 – 199939 rows · 2 wars and battles · 4 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Emmanuel Macron · ruler · 1977 – present
- Marine Le Pen · politician · 1968 – present
- Luc Besson · writer · 1959 – present
- Emmanuelle Charpentier · scientist · 1968 – present
- Manuel Valls · politician · 1962 – present
- Jean Castex · politician · 1965 – present
- May 68 · unrest · 1968
- Édouard Philippe · politician · 1970 – present
and 31 more in the atlas.
2000 – 209921 rows · 3 wars and battles · 11 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Paris Agreement · treaty · 2015
- 2016 Nice truck attack · atrocity · 2016
- Germanwings Flight 9525 · atrocity · 2015
- COVID-19 pandemic in France · plague · 2019
- 2005 French riots · unrest · 2005
- Nahel Merzouk riots · unrest · 2023
- 2024 New Caledonia unrest · unrest · 2024
- Operation Serval · battle · 2013 – 2014
and 13 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 stood68 years
stood longer than 39% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held11,289,800 km²
held more ground at its peak than 99% 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.
- 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 record12
has more rulers on record than 84% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 1 cause 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, 1948 – 2036, 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 Q200686 (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.