State · 1918 – 1970

Kingdom of Yemen

A state of 1918 – 1970 — 52 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It replaced Imams of Yemen. It was replaced by Yemen Arab Republic. The atlas records 6 things within it — unrest and atrocity 1 · people 5. 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: 52 years; 1918 – 1970
Rulers: 3; the king of Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen
Most ground: 182,000 km²; in 1919
Within it: 6; recorded rows
Symbols: 2; on record, with years

Map: Kingdom of Yemen in 1919, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Kingdom of Yemen in 1919, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 182,000 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

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

Imams of Yemen · replaces · 1814 – 1872

After it

Yemen Arab Republic · replaced by · 1962 – 1990

Rulers

The line of king of Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen - the office this state names as its head of state.

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in office

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din	1918 – 1948	30 years	killedWikidata's manner of death
Ahmad bin Yahya	1948 – 1962	14 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Muhammad al-Badr	1962 – 1962	under a year	deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	child

3 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 1918 – 1962. Only 44 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. 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.

182,000 km² in 1928, 151,600 km² in 1958; at its largest 182,000 km² in 1928. 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 the kingdom of Yemen (1956-1962) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Rayan54
flag, undatedFlag of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen · 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 – 19994 rows · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres

Muhammad al-Badr · ruler · 1926 – 1996
Hussein al-Houthi · religious leader · 1959 – 2004
Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar · politician · 1945 – present
Al-Waziri coup · unrest · 1948

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 stood52 years
stood longer than 34% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held182,000 km²
held more ground at its peak than 56% 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.
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: 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.

linked

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, 1908 – 1980, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1919, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q580188 (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.