State · 1946 – present
Jordan
A state of 1946 – present — 80 years, still standing in the Middle East and North Africa. It replaced Mandatory Palestine. The atlas records 22 things within it — wars and battles 4 · unrest and atrocity 1 · famine and plague 1 · people 16. Its line of rulers holds 4 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
- 4
- the King of Jordan
- Most ground
- 103,800 km²
- in 1953
- Within it
- 22
- 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
- Mandatory Palestine · replaces
Rulers
The line of King of Jordan - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abdullah I of Jordan | 1946 – 1951 | 5 years | killedWikidata's manner of death | |
| Talal of Jordan | 1951 – 1952 | 1 year | deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | child |
| Hussein of Jordan | 1952 – 1999 | 47 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | child |
| Abdullah II of Jordan | 1999 – in office | in office since 1999 | still in office | child |
4 rulers, 4 with terms dated as terms, covering 1946 – 1999. Median reign 5 years. 2 of 3 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 Jordan, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Ibrahim Hashem Pasha | lived 1886 – 1958 |
| Sa'id Mufti | lived 1898 – 1989 |
| Fawzi al-Mulki | lived 1910 – 1962 |
| Bahjat Talhouni | lived 1913 – 1994 |
| Tawfik Abu al-Huda | 1938 – 1944 |
| Tawfik Abu al-Huda | 1947 – 1950 |
| Tawfik Abu al-Huda | 1951 – 1953 |
| Tawfik Abu al-Huda | 1954 – 1955 |
| Hazza' al-Majali | 1955 – 1955 |
| Suleiman al-Nabulsi | 1956 – 1957 |
| Husayn al-Khalidi | 1957 – 1957 |
| Hazza' al-Majali | 1959 – 1960 |
| Wasfi Tal | 1962 – 1963 |
| Hussein ibn Nasser | 1963 – 1964 |
| Wasfi Tal | 1965 – 1967 |
| Hussein ibn Nasser | 1967 – 1967 |
| Abdelmunim al-Rifai | 1969 – 1969 |
| Wasfi Tal | 1970 – 1971 |
| Ahmad Toukan | 1970 – 1970 |
| Mohammad Daoud al-Abbasi | 1970 – 1970 |
| Ahmad Lawzi | 1971 – 1973 |
| Zaid al-Rifai | 1973 – 1976 |
| Mudar Badran | 1976 – 1979 |
| Abdelhamid Sharaf | 1979 – 1980 |
| Kassim al-Rimawi | 1980 – 1980 |
| Mudar Badran | 1980 – 1984 |
| Ahmad Obeidat | 1984 – 1985 |
| Zaid al-Rifai | 1985 – 1989 |
| Zeid bin Shaker | 1989 – 1989 |
| Mudar Badran | 1989 – 1991 |
| Zeid bin Shaker | 1991 – 1993 |
| Taher Masri | 1991 – 1991 |
| Abdelsalam al-Majali | 1993 – 1995 |
| Zeid bin Shaker | 1995 – 1996 |
| Abdul Karim al-Kabariti | 1996 – 1997 |
| Abdelsalam al-Majali | 1997 – 1998 |
| Fayez al-Tarawneh | 1998 – 1999 |
| Abdelraouf al-Rawabdeh | 1999 – 2000 |
| Ali Abu al-Ragheb | 2000 – 2002 |
| Faisal al-Fayez | 2003 – 2005 |
| Ali Abu al-Ragheb | 2003 – 2003 |
| Marouf al-Bakhit | 2005 – 2007 |
| Adnan Badran | 2005 – 2005 |
| Nader al-Dahabi | 2007 – 2009 |
| Samir Rifai | 2009 – 2011 |
| Marouf al-Bakhit | 2011 – 2011 |
| Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh | 2011 – 2012 |
| Abdullah Ensour | 2012 – 2016 |
| Fayez al-Tarawneh | 2012 – 2012 |
| Hani al-Mulki | 2016 – 2018 |
| Omar Razzaz | 2018 – 2020 |
| Bisher Al-Khasawneh | 2020 – 2024 |
| Jafar Hassan | 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.
103,600 km² in 1956, 90,300 km² in 2016; at its largest 103,800 km² in 1966. 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, from 1921Coat of arms of Jordan · Public domain 
flag, from 1928Flag of Jordan · 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 – 199918 rows · 3 wars and battles
- Abdullah II of Jordan · ruler · 1962 – present
- Hussein of Jordan · ruler · 1935 – 1999
- Queen Rania of Jordan · writer · 1970 – present
- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi · politician · 1966 – 2006
- Khaled Mashal · politician · 1956 – present
- Talal of Jordan · ruler · 1909 – 1972
- Black September · war · 1970 – 1971
- Marouf al-Bakhit · politician · 1947 – 2023
and 10 more in the atlas.
2000 – 20993 rows · 1 wars and battles · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- COVID-19 pandemic in Jordan · plague · 2020
- Jordanian–Syrian border incidents during the Syrian civil war · war · 2012 – 2018
- 2018 Jordanian protests · unrest · 2018
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 held103,800 km²
held more ground at its peak than 46% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century2.0
had more wars on record per century than 97% 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 record4
has more rulers on record than 58% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 5 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, 1936 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1953, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q810 (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.