State · 1642 – 1959
Ganden Phodrang
A state of 1642 – 1959 — 317 years in South Asia. It replaced Tsangpa. The atlas records 1 thing within it — wars and battles 1. Its line of rulers holds 2 people.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 317 years
- 1642 – 1959
- Rulers
- 2
- the Dalai Lama
- Most ground
- 1.61 million km²
- in 1700
- Within it
- 1
- recorded row
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
- Tsangpa · replaces · 1565 – 1642
Rulers
Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5th Dalai Lama | 1642 – 1682 | 40 years | ending not on record | |
| 14th Dalai Lama | 1950 – 1959 | 9 years | ending not on record |
2 rulers, 2 with terms dated as terms, covering 1642 – 1959. Median reign 24.5 years. 0 of 1 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”.
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.
1.55 million km² in 1667, 1.23 million km² in 1792; at its largest 1.61 million km² in 1692. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.
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.
1700 – 17991 row · 1 wars and battles
- Battle of the Salween River · battle · 1718
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 stood317 years
stood longer than 75% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held1,606,000 km²
held more ground at its peak than 89% 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.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median40 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 91% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record2
has more rulers on record than 34% 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, 1610 – 1991, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1700, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q17500081 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.