Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 1932 – present

Iraq

A state of 1932 – present — 94 years, still standing in the Middle East and North Africa. It replaced Coalition Provisional Authority and followed Kingdom of Iraq. The atlas records 148 things within it — wars and battles 69 · unrest and atrocity 22 · famine and plague 1 · treaties 1 · people 55. Its line of rulers holds 12 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
94 years
and still standing
Rulers
12
the President of Iraq
Most ground
456,800 km²
in 1990
Within it
148
recorded rows
Symbols
7
on record, with years
Map: Iraq in 1990, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Iraq in 1990, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 456,800 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Kingdom of Iraq: 1921 – 1958Coalition Provisional Authority: 2003 – 2004Iraq: 1932 – 2026

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

Rulers

The line of President of Iraq - the office this state names as its head of state.

Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i · 1958 – 1963 · left office aliveAbdul Salam Arif · 1963 – 1966 · died by accidentAbdul-Rahman al-Bazzaz · 1966 – 1966 · left office aliveAbdul Rahman Arif · 1966 – 1968 · left office aliveAhmed Hassan al-Bakr · 1968 – 1979 · left office aliveSaddam Hussein · 1979 – 2003 · ended by a named eventGhazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer · 2004 – 2005 · no death date to read the end againstJalal Talabani · 2005 – 2014 · left office aliveFuad Masum · 2014 – 2018 · no death date to read the end againstBarham Salih · 2018 – 2022 · lost an election, the article saysAbdul Latif Rashid · 2022 – 2026 · no death date to read the end againstNizar Amidi · 2026 – … · still in office19401960198020002020
died in officeleft alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on record
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i1958 – 19635 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Abdul Salam Arif1963 – 19663 yearsdied by accidentWikidata's manner of death
Abdul-Rahman al-Bazzaz1966 – 1966under a yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Abdul Rahman Arif1966 – 19682 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr1968 – 197911 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Saddam Hussein1979 – 200324 yearsended by a named eventWikidata's end cause on the term
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer2004 – 20051 yearending not on record
Jalal Talabani2005 – 20149 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Fuad Masum2014 – 20184 yearsending not on record
Barham Salih2018 – 20224 yearslost an election, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Abdul Latif Rashid2022 – 20264 yearsending not on record
Nizar Amidi2026 – in officein office since 2026still in office

12 rulers, 12 with terms dated as terms, covering 1958 – 2026. Median reign 4 years. 4 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 0.67, 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 Iraq, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.

Jafar al-Askari1926 – 1928
Abd al-Muhsin as-Sa'dun1928 – 1929
Tawfiq al-Suwaidi1929 – 1929
Naji al-Suwaidi1929 – 1930
Nuri al-Said1930 – 1932
Naji Shawkat1932 – 1933
Jamil al-Midfai1933 – 1934
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani1933 – 1933
Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi1934 – 1935
Yasin Hashimi1935 – 1936
Jamil al-Midfai1935 – 1935
Hikmat Sulayman1936 – 1937
Jamil al-Midfai1937 – 1938
Nuri al-Said1938 – 1940
Taha al-Hashimi1941 – 1941
Jamil al-Midfai1941 – 1941
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani1941 – 1941
Nuri al-Said1941 – 1944
Hamdi Pachachi1944 – 1946
Tawfiq al-Suwaidi1946 – 1946
Nuri al-Said1946 – 1947
Arshad al-Umari1946 – 1946
Sayyid Salih Jabr1947 – 1948
Mohammed al-Sadr1948 – 1948
Muzahim Pachachi1948 – 1949
Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi1949 – 1950
Tawfiq al-Suwaidi1950 – 1950
Nuri al-Said1950 – 1952
Nureddin Mahmud1952 – 1953
Mustafa Mahmud al-Umari1952 – 1952
Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali1953 – 1954
Jamil al-Midfai1953 – 1953
Nuri al-Said1954 – 1957
Arshad al-Umari1954 – 1954
Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi1957 – 1957
Abdul-Wahab Mirjan1957 – 1958
Ahmad Mukhtar Baban1958 – 1958
Abdul-Karim Qasim1958 – 1963
Nuri al-Said1958 – 1958
Tahir Yahya1963 – 1965
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr1963 – 1963
Abdul-Rahman al-Bazzaz1965 – 1966
Arif Abd ar-Razzaq1965 – 1965
Naji Talib1966 – 1967
Tahir Yahya1967 – 1968
Abdul Rahman Arif1967 – 1968
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr1968 – 1979
Abd ar-Razzaq an-Naif1968 – 1968
Saddam Hussein1979 – 1991
Sa'dun Hammadi1991 – 1991
Mohammed Hamza Zubeidi1991 – 1993
Ahmad Husayn Khudayir as-Samarrai1993 – 1994
Saddam Hussein1994 – 2003
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim2003 – 2003
Ayad Allawi2003 – 2003
Ibrahim al-Jaafari2003 – 2003
Ahmed Chalabi2003 – 2003
Jalal Talabani2003 – 2003
Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum2003 – 2003
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer2004 – 2004
Masoud Barzani2004 – 2004
Adnan Pachachi2004 – 2004
Mohsen Abdel Hamid2004 – 2004
Ezzedine Salim2004 – 2004
Ibrahim al-Jaafari2005 – 2006
Nouri al-Maliki2007 – 2014
Haider al-Abadi2014 – 2018
Adil Abdul-Mahdi2018 – 2020
Mustafa Al-Kadhimi2020 – 2022
Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani2022 – …
Ali Falih Al-Zaidi2026 – …

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.

197019801990200020102020

434,100 km² in 1962, 438,800 km² in 2022; at its largest 439,100 km² in 1992. 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 of Iraq (1924–1959)
    flag, to 1958Flag of Iraq (1924–1959) · Public domain
  • Flag of Iraq (1959–1963)
    flag, 1959 – 1963Flag of Iraq (1959–1963) · Public domain
  • Flag of Iraq (1963–1991)
    flag, 1963 – 1991Flag of Iraq (1963–1991) · Public domain
  • Flag of Iraq (1991–2004)
    flag, 1991 – 2004Flag of Iraq (1991–2004) · Public domain
  • Flag of Iraq (2004–2008)
    flag, 2004 – 2008Flag of Iraq (2004–2008) · Public domain
  • Flag of Iraq
    flag, from 2008Flag of Iraq · Public domain
  • Coat of arms of Iraq
    coat of arms, from 2008Coat of arms of Iraq · 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 – 1999: 83 recorded — 23 wars and battles, 5 risings, regime changes and massacres, 55 other19002000 – 2099: 65 recorded — 46 wars and battles, 17 risings, regime changes and massacres, 2 other2000

1900 – 199983 rows · 23 wars and battles · 5 risings, regime changes and massacres

and 75 more in the atlas.

2000 – 209965 rows · 46 wars and battles · 17 risings, regime changes and massacres

and 57 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 stood94 years

    stood longer than 45% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held456,800 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 73% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.

  • Wars recorded per century8.0

    had more wars on record per century than 100% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.

  • How long a reign lasted, at the median4 years

    had longer reigns, at the median, than 13% 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: 13 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.

Kingdom of Iraq · Linked · 1921 – 1958Kingdom of IraqSeleucia · In the article · 300 BCE · “Following the founding of Seleucia, the population of Babylon was resettled to it.”SeleuciaSati' al-Husri · Coincidence · 1880 – 1968Sati' al-HusriNuri al-Said · Coincidence · 1888 – 1958Nuri al-SaidTaha al-Hashimi · Coincidence · 1888 – 1961Taha al-HashimiRashid Ali al-Gaylani · Coincidence · 1892 – 1965Rashid Ali al-GaylaniIraq · 1932 – 2026Iraq1500100015002000
in the articlelinkedcoincidence

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

Wikidata Q796 (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.