State · 1962 – present
Jamaica
A state of 1962 – present — 64 years, still standing in the Americas and Oceania. It replaced Colony of Jamaica and followed West Indies Federation. The atlas records 11 things within it — famine and plague 1 · natural disasters 1 · treaties 1 · people 8. 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
- 64 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 10
- the Governor-General of Jamaica
- Most ground
- 13,400 km²
- in 1963
- 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
- Colony of Jamaica · replaces · 1655 – 1962
- West Indies Federation · follows
Rulers
The line of Governor-General of Jamaica - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kenneth Blackburne | 1962 – 1962 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Clifford Campbell | 1962 – 1973 | 11 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Elizabeth II | 1962 – 2022 | 60 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Herbert Duffus | 1973 – 1973 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Florizel Glasspole | 1973 – 1991 | 18 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Edward Zacca | 1991 – 1991 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Howard Cooke | 1991 – 2006 | 15 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Kenneth O. Hall | 2006 – 2009 | 3 years | ending not on record | |
| Patrick Allen | 2009 – in office | in office since 2009 | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Charles III | 2022 – in office | in office since 2022 | still in office |
10 rulers, 10 with terms dated as terms, covering 1962 – 2022. Median reign 7 years. 2 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 0.62, 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 Jamaica, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Alexander Bustamante | 1962 – 1967 |
| Donald Sangster | 1967 – 1967 |
| Hugh Shearer | 1967 – 1972 |
| Michael Manley | 1972 – 1980 |
| Edward Seaga | 1980 – 1989 |
| P. J. Patterson | 1992 – 2006 |
| Portia Simpson-Miller | 2006 – 2007 |
| Bruce Golding | 2007 – 2011 |
| Andrew Holness | 2011 – 2012 |
| Portia Simpson-Miller | 2012 – 2016 |
| Andrew Holness | 2016 – … |
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.
13,400 km² in 1972, 13,400 km² in 2022; at its largest 13,400 km² in 1972. 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.
coat of arms, undatedCoat of arms of Jamaica · Public domain 
flag, from 1962Flag of Jamaica · 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 – 19998 rows
- United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea · treaty · 1982
- Patrick Allen · ruler · 1951 – present
- Howard Cooke · ruler · 1915 – 2014
- Kenneth O. Hall · ruler · 1941 – present
- Florizel Glasspole · ruler · 1909 – 2000
- Kenneth Blackburne · ruler · 1907 – 1980
- Edward Zacca · ruler · 1931 – 2019
- Herbert Duffus · ruler · 1908 – 2002
2000 – 20992 rows
- COVID-19 pandemic in Jamaica · plague · 2020
- 2020 Caribbean earthquake · disaster · 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 stood64 years
stood longer than 38% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held13,400 km²
held more ground at its peak than 17% 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 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, 1952 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1963, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q766 (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.