State · 1946 – present
Italy
A state of 1946 – present — 80 years, still standing in Europe. It replaced Kingdom of Italy. The atlas records 65 things within it — wars and battles 1 · unrest and atrocity 10 · famine and plague 1 · natural disasters 15 · treaties 9 · people 28 · works and ideas 1. Its line of rulers holds 13 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
- 80 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 13
- the President of Italy
- Most ground
- 288,400 km²
- in 1973
- Within it
- 65
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 5
- 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
- Kingdom of Italy · replaces · 1861 – 1946
Rulers
The line of President of Italy - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alcide De Gasperi | 1946 – 1946 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Enrico De Nicola | 1948 – 1948 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Luigi Einaudi | 1948 – 1955 | 7 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Giovanni Gronchi | 1955 – 1962 | 7 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Antonio Segni | 1962 – 1964 | 2 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Giuseppe Saragat | 1964 – 1971 | 7 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Giovanni Leone | 1971 – 1978 | 7 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Sandro Pertini | 1978 – 1985 | 7 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Francesco Cossiga | 1985 – 1992 | 7 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Oscar Luigi Scalfaro | 1992 – 1999 | 7 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Carlo Azeglio Ciampi | 1999 – 2006 | 7 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Giorgio Napolitano | 2006 – 2015 | 9 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Sergio Mattarella | 2015 – in office | in office since 2015 | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article |
13 rulers, 13 with terms dated as terms, covering 1946 – 2015. Median reign 7 years. 0 of 12 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 1.00, 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 Italy, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Alcide De Gasperi | 1946 – 1947 |
| Alcide De Gasperi | 1948 – 1950 |
| Alcide De Gasperi | 1951 – 1953 |
| Alcide De Gasperi | 1953 – 1953 |
| Giuseppe Pella | 1953 – 1954 |
| Amintore Fanfani | 1954 – 1954 |
| Mario Scelba | 1954 – 1955 |
| Antonio Segni | 1955 – 1957 |
| Adone Zoli | 1957 – 1958 |
| Amintore Fanfani | 1958 – 1959 |
| Antonio Segni | 1959 – 1960 |
| Amintore Fanfani | 1960 – 1962 |
| Fernando Tambroni | 1960 – 1960 |
| Amintore Fanfani | 1962 – 1963 |
| Giovanni Leone | 1963 – 1963 |
| Aldo Moro | 1963 – 1964 |
| Aldo Moro | 1966 – 1968 |
| Giovanni Leone | 1968 – 1968 |
| Mariano Rumor | 1969 – 1970 |
| Emilio Colombo | 1970 – 1972 |
| Giulio Andreotti | 1972 – 1973 |
| Mariano Rumor | 1973 – 1974 |
| Aldo Moro | 1974 – 1976 |
| Aldo Moro | 1976 – 1976 |
| Giulio Andreotti | 1976 – 1978 |
| Giulio Andreotti | 1978 – 1979 |
| Francesco Cossiga | 1980 – 1980 |
| Arnaldo Forlani | 1980 – 1981 |
| Giovanni Spadolini | 1981 – 1982 |
| Amintore Fanfani | 1982 – 1983 |
| Bettino Craxi | 1983 – 1986 |
| Bettino Craxi | 1986 – 1987 |
| Amintore Fanfani | 1987 – 1987 |
| Giovanni Goria | 1987 – 1988 |
| Ciriaco De Mita | 1988 – 1989 |
| Giulio Andreotti | 1989 – 1991 |
| Giulio Andreotti | 1991 – 1992 |
| Giuliano Amato | 1992 – 1993 |
| Carlo Azeglio Ciampi | 1993 – 1994 |
| Silvio Berlusconi | 1994 – 1995 |
| Lamberto Dini | 1995 – 1996 |
| Romano Prodi | 1996 – 1998 |
| Massimo D'Alema | 1999 – 2000 |
| Giuliano Amato | 2000 – 2001 |
| Silvio Berlusconi | 2001 – 2005 |
| Silvio Berlusconi | 2005 – 2006 |
| Romano Prodi | 2006 – 2008 |
| Silvio Berlusconi | 2008 – 2011 |
| Mario Monti | 2011 – 2013 |
| Enrico Letta | 2013 – 2014 |
| Matteo Renzi | 2014 – 2016 |
| Paolo Gentiloni | 2016 – 2018 |
| Giuseppe Conte | 2018 – 2021 |
| Mario Draghi | 2021 – 2022 |
| Giorgia Meloni | 2022 – … |
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.
288,300 km² in 1946, 288,300 km² in 2016; at its largest 288,300 km² in 1946. 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.
.svg/120px-Flag_of_Italy_(1861%E2%80%931946).svg.png)
flag, 1861 – 1946Flag of Italy (1861–1946) · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_Italy_(1946%E2%80%932003).svg.png)
flag, 1946 – 2003Flag of Italy (1946–2003) · Public domain 
coat of arms, from 1948Emblem of Italy · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_Italy_(2003%E2%80%932006).svg.png)
flag, 2003 – 2006Flag of Italy (2003–2006) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Zscout370 
flag, from 2006Flag of Italy · 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 – 199946 rows · 1 wars and battles · 9 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Giorgia Meloni · politician · 1977 – present
- Sergio Mattarella · ruler · 1941 – present
- Giorgio Napolitano · ruler · 1925 – 2023
- Giuseppe Conte · politician · 1964 – present
- Mario Draghi · politician · 1947 – present
- Sonia Gandhi · politician · 1946 – present
- Francesco Cossiga · ruler · 1928 – 2010
- Paolo Gentiloni · politician · 1954 – present
and 38 more in the atlas.
2000 – 209913 rows · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- COVID-19 pandemic in Italy · plague · 2020
- August 2016 Central Italy earthquake · disaster · 2016
- 2009 L'Aquila earthquake · disaster · 2009
- 2012 Northern Italy earthquakes · disaster · 2012
- United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime · treaty · 2000
- 2023 Emilia-Romagna floods · disaster · 2023
- October 2016 Central Italy earthquakes · disaster · 2016
- 2013 Sardinia floods · disaster · 2013
and 5 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 stood80 years
stood longer than 42% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held288,400 km²
held more ground at its peak than 65% 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 median7 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 26% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record13
has more rulers on record than 85% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 40 causes the record names and 1 result, 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, 1936 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1973, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q38 (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.