State · 1926 – 1973
Kingdom of Afghanistan
A state of 1926 – 1973 — 47 years in South Asia. It replaced Emirate of Afghanistan. It was replaced by Republic of Afghanistan. The atlas records 44 things within it — wars and battles 1 · unrest and atrocity 1 · people 42. Its line of rulers holds 3 people.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 47 years
- 1926 – 1973
- Rulers
- 3
- the King of Afghanistan
- Most ground
- 644,100 km²
- in 1926
- Within it
- 44
- 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
- Emirate of Afghanistan · replaces · 1823 – 1926
After it
- Republic of Afghanistan · replaced by · 1973 – 1978
Rulers
The line of King of Afghanistan.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amanullah Khan | 1926 – 1929 | 3 years | abdicated, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Habibullah Kalakani | 1928 – 1929 | 1 year | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Mohammad Nadir Shah | 1929 – 1933 | 4 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone |
3 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 1926 – 1933. Only 7 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 1 of 2 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”.
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.
644,100 km² in 1926, 644,100 km² in 1971; at its largest 644,100 km² in 1926. 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.
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coat of arms, undatedEmblem of Afghanistan (1931–1973) · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_Afghanistan_(1931%E2%80%931973).svg.png)
flag, undatedFlag of Afghanistan (1931–1973) · 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 – 199941 rows · 1 wars and battles · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Ahmad Shah Massoud · commander · 1953 – 2001
- Mullah Omar · ruler · 1960 – 2013
- Mohammad Najibullah · scientist · 1947 – 1996
- Burhanuddin Rabbani · ruler · 1940 – 2011
- Babrak Karmal · politician · 1929 – 1996
- Hafizullah Amin · politician · 1929 – 1979
- Abdul Ghani Baradar · politician · 1963 – present
- Abdullah Abdullah · scientist · 1960 – present
and 33 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 stood47 years
stood longer than 32% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held644,100 km²
held more ground at its peak than 78% 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.
- Rulers on record3
has more rulers on record than 48% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 2 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, 1916 – 1983, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1926, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q1138904 (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.