State · 1958 – present
Guinea
A state of 1958 – present — 68 years, still standing in sub-Saharan Africa. It replaced French West Africa and French Guinea and followed People's Revolutionary Republic of Guinea. The atlas records 13 things within it — wars and battles 1 · regime change 3 · unrest and atrocity 1 · famine and plague 1 · people 7. Its line of rulers holds 7 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
- 68 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 7
- the President of Guinea
- Most ground
- 246,700 km²
- in 1960
- Within it
- 13
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 2
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.
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 West Africa · replaces
- French Guinea · replaces
- People's Revolutionary Republic of Guinea · follows
Rulers
The line of President of Guinea - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ahmed Sékou Touré | 1958 – 1984 | 26 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | |
| Louis Lansana Beavogui | 1984 – 1984 | under a year | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | |
| Lansana Conté | 1984 – 2008 | 24 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Moussa Dadis Camara | 2008 – 2009 | 1 year | ending not on record | |
| Sékouba Konaté | 2009 – 2010 | 1 year | ending not on record | |
| Alpha Condé | 2010 – 2021 | 11 years | ending not on record | |
| Mamady Doumbouya | 2021 – in office | in office since 2021 | still in office |
7 rulers, 7 with terms dated as terms, covering 1958 – 2021. Median reign 6 years. 6 of 6 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 Guinea, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Louis Lansana Beavogui | 1972 – 1984 |
| Diarra Traoré | 1984 – 1984 |
| Sidya Touré | 1996 – 1999 |
| Lamine Sidimé | 1999 – 2004 |
| François Lonseny Fall | 2004 – 2004 |
| Cellou Dalein Diallo | 2004 – 2006 |
| Lansana Kouyaté | 2007 – 2008 |
| Eugène Camara | 2007 – 2007 |
| Ahmed Tidiane Souaré | 2008 – 2008 |
| Kabiné Komara | 2008 – 2010 |
| Jean-Marie Doré | 2010 – 2010 |
| Mohamed Said Fofana | 2010 – 2015 |
| Mamady Youla | 2015 – 2018 |
| Ibrahima Kassory Fofana | 2018 – 2021 |
| Mohamed Béavogui | 2021 – 2022 |
| Bernard Goumou | 2022 – 2024 |
| Bah Oury | 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.
246,700 km² in 1968, 246,700 km² in 2018; at its largest 246,700 km² in 1968. 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 1958Flag of Guinea · Public domain 
coat of arms, from 1984Coat of arms of Guinea · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Turn685
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 – 19999 rows · 1 wars and battles · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Ahmed Sékou Touré · ruler · 1922 – 1984
- Alpha Condé · ruler · 1938 – present
- Lansana Conté · ruler · 1934 – 2008
- Mamady Doumbouya · ruler · 1980 – present
- Moussa Dadis Camara · ruler · 1964 – present
- Louis Lansana Beavogui · ruler · 1923 – 1984
- Sékouba Konaté · ruler · 1964 – present
- Operation Green Sea · battle · 1970
and 1 more in the atlas.
2000 – 20994 rows · 3 risings, regime changes and massacres
- 2021 Guinean coup d'état · adverse regime change · 2021
- COVID-19 pandemic in Guinea · plague · 2020
- 2008 Guinean coup d'état · adverse regime change · 2008
- 2009 Guinean protests · unrest · 2009
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 held246,700 km²
held more ground at its peak than 63% 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 median11 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 38% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record7
has more rulers on record than 73% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 7 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, 1948 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1960, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q1006 (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.