State · 1970 – present
Guyana
A state of 1970 – present — 56 years, still standing in the Americas and Oceania. It replaced Guyana (1966–1970). The atlas records 11 things within it — famine and plague 1 · people 10. Its line of rulers holds 10 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
- 56 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 10
- the President of Guyana
- Most ground
- 213,400 km²
- in 1971
- Within it
- 11
- 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
- Guyana (1966–1970) · replaces · 1966 – 1970
Rulers
The line of President of Guyana - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edward Luckhoo | 1970 – 1970 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Arthur Chung | 1970 – 1980 | 10 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Forbes Burnham | 1980 – 1985 | 5 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Desmond Hoyte | 1985 – 1992 | 7 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Sam Hinds | 1997 – 1997 | under a year | ending not on record | |
| Janet Jagan | 1997 – 1999 | 2 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Bharrat Jagdeo | 1999 – 2011 | 12 years | ending not on record | |
| Donald Ramotar | 2011 – 2015 | 4 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| David A. Granger | 2015 – 2020 | 5 years | ending not on record | |
| Irfaan Ali | 2020 – in office | in office since 2020 | still in office |
10 rulers, 10 with terms dated as terms, covering 1970 – 2020. Median reign 5 years. 0 of 9 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 0.86, 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 Guyana, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Ptolemy Reid | lived 1912 – 2003 |
| Cheddi Jagan | lived 1918 – 1997 |
| Hamilton Green | lived 1934 – … |
| Forbes Burnham | 1966 – 1980 |
| Desmond Hoyte | 1984 – 1985 |
| Sam Hinds | 1992 – 1997 |
| Janet Jagan | 1997 – 1997 |
| Sam Hinds | 1997 – 1999 |
| Bharrat Jagdeo | 1999 – 1999 |
| Sam Hinds | 1999 – 2015 |
| Moses Nagamootoo | 2015 – 2020 |
| Mark Phillips | 2020 – … |
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.
213,400 km² in 1980, 213,400 km² in 2020; at its largest 213,400 km² in 1980. 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 1966Flag of Guyana · Public domain 
coat of arms, from 1966Coat of arms of Guyana · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Sodacan
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 – 199910 rows
- Irfaan Ali · ruler · 1980 – present
- Bharrat Jagdeo · ruler · 1964 – present
- Janet Jagan · ruler · 1920 – 2009
- Sam Hinds · ruler · 1943 – present
- David A. Granger · ruler · 1945 – present
- Arthur Chung · ruler · 1918 – 2008
- Donald Ramotar · ruler · 1950 – present
- Forbes Burnham · ruler · 1923 – 1985
and 2 more in the atlas.
2000 – 20991 row
- COVID-19 pandemic in Guyana · 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 stood56 years
stood longer than 36% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held213,400 km²
held more ground at its peak than 59% 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 median5 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 18% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record10
has more rulers on record than 80% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 3 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, 1960 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1971, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q734 (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.