State · 1768 – 2008
Kingdom of Nepal
A state of 1768 – 2008 — 240 years in South Asia. It replaced Malla. It was replaced by Nepal. The atlas records 26 things within it — wars and battles 2 · unrest and atrocity 2 · natural disasters 2 · treaties 1 · people 19. Its line of rulers holds 24 people, 13 with dated terms.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 240 years
- 1768 – 2008
- Rulers
- 24
- the King of Nepal
- Most ground
- 227,500 km²
- in 1814
- Within it
- 26
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 2
- on record, with years
1814 · at its largest · 227,500 km²
1890 · last mapped · 148,800 km²
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
- Malla · replaces
After it
- Nepal · replaced by · 2008 – present
Rulers
The line of King of Nepal - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prithvi Narayan Shah | 1768 – 1775 | 7 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | |
| Jaya Prakash Malla | 1768 – — | no end recorded | ending not on record | |
| Pratap Singh Shah | 1775 – 1777 | 2 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | |
| Rana Bahadur Shah | 1777 – 1806 | 29 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | child |
| Girvan Yuddha Bikram Shah | 1799 – 1816 | 17 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | child |
| Rajendra Bikram Shah | 1816 – 1847 | 31 years | deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | child |
| Surendra Bikram Shah | 1847 – 1881 | 34 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | child |
| Prithvi Bir Bikram Shah | 1881 – 1911 | 30 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | grandchild |
| Tribhuvan of Nepal | 1911 – 1950 | 39 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | child |
| Gyanendra of Nepal | 1950 – 1951 | 1 year | ending not on record | grandchild |
| Tribhuvan of Nepal | 1951 – 1955 | 4 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | |
| Mahendra of Nepal | 1955 – 1972 | 17 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | child |
| Birendra of Nepal | 1972 – 2001 | 29 years | killedWikidata's manner of death | child |
| Dipendra of Nepal | 2001 – 2001 | under a year | died by suicideWikidata's manner of death | child |
| Gyanendra of Nepal | 2001 – 2008 | 7 years | ending not on record |
24 rulers, 13 with terms dated as terms, covering 1768 – 2008. Median reign 17 years. 5 of 14 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 Nepal, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Bhimsen Thapa | 1806 – 1837 |
| Fatte Jang Shah | 1845 – 1846 |
| Bir Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana | 1885 – 1901 |
| Mohan Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana | 1948 – 1951 |
| Matrika Prasad Koirala | 1951 – 1952 |
| Matrika Prasad Koirala | 1953 – 1955 |
| Tulsi Giri | 1963 – 1963 |
| Tulsi Giri | 1964 – 1965 |
| Kirti Nidhi Bista | 1969 – 1970 |
| Kirti Nidhi Bista | 1971 – 1973 |
| Tulsi Giri | 1975 – 1977 |
| Kirti Nidhi Bista | 1977 – 1979 |
| Lokendra Bahadur Chand | 1983 – 1986 |
| Lokendra Bahadur Chand | 1990 – 1990 |
| Krishna Prasad Bhattarai | 1990 – 1991 |
| Girija Prasad Koirala | 1991 – 1994 |
| Man Mohan Adhikari | 1994 – 1995 |
| Sher Bahadur Deuba | 1995 – 1997 |
| Lokendra Bahadur Chand | 1997 – 1997 |
| Girija Prasad Koirala | 1998 – 1999 |
| Krishna Prasad Bhattarai | 1999 – 2000 |
| Girija Prasad Koirala | 2000 – 2001 |
| Sher Bahadur Deuba | 2001 – 2002 |
| Lokendra Bahadur Chand | 2002 – 2003 |
| Surya Bahadur Thapa | 2003 – 2004 |
| Sher Bahadur Deuba | 2004 – 2005 |
| Girija Prasad Koirala | 2006 – 2008 |
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.
57,100 km² in 1778, 148,800 km² in 2008; at its largest 222,000 km² in 1808. 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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flag, undatedFlag of Nepal (1743–1962) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Orange Tuesday .svg/120px-Coat_of_arms_of_Nepal_(1962%E2%80%932008).svg.png)
coat of arms, undatedCoat of arms of Nepal (1962–2008) · 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.
1700 – 17998 rows
- Prithvi Narayan Shah · ruler · 1723 – 1775
- Bhimsen Thapa · politician · 1775 – 1839
- Rana Bahadur Shah · ruler · 1775 – 1806
- Pratap Singh Shah · ruler · 1751 – 1777
- Girvan Yuddha Bikram Shah · ruler · 1797 – 1816
- Raj Rajeshwari Devi · ruler · 1750 – 1806
- Rajendra Rajya Laxmi Devi · ruler · 1750 – 1785
- Subarna Prabha Devi · ruler · 1779 – 1806
1800 – 18997 rows · 1 wars and battles · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Anglo-Nepalese War · war · 1814 – 1816
- Jung Bahadur Rana · commander · 1817 – 1877
- Prithvi Bir Bikram Shah · ruler · 1875 – 1911
- Rajendra Bikram Shah · ruler · 1813 – 1881
- Surendra Bikram Shah · ruler · 1829 – 1881
- Chandra Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana · ruler · 1863 – 1929
- Kot massacre · atrocity · 1846
1900 – 199910 rows · 1 wars and battles
- Pushpa Kamal Dahal · politician · 1954 – present
- Gyanendra of Nepal · ruler · 1947 – present
- Birendra of Nepal · ruler · 1945 – 2001
- Dipendra of Nepal · ruler · 1971 – 2001
- Nepalese Civil War · war · 1996 – 2006
- Mahendra of Nepal · ruler · 1920 – 1972
- Tribhuvan of Nepal · ruler · 1906 – 1955
- 1934 Nepal–India earthquake · disaster · 1934
and 2 more in the atlas.
2000 – 20991 row · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Nepalese royal massacre · atrocity · 2001
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 stood240 years
stood longer than 68% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held227,500 km²
held more ground at its peak than 61% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century0.8
had more wars on record per century than 92% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median17 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 54% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record24
has more rulers on record than 93% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 1 cause 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, 1744 – 2032, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1814, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q1078602 (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.