State · 1979 – present
Kiribati
A state of 1979 – present — 47 years, still standing in the Americas and Oceania. The atlas records 8 things within it — treaties 1 · people 7. Its line of rulers holds 7 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
- 47 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 7
- the President of Kiribati
- Within it
- 8
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 2
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.
Rulers
The line of President of Kiribati - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ieremia Tabai | 1979 – 1991 | 12 years | ending not on record | |
| Teatao Teannaki | 1991 – 1994 | 3 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Ata Teaotai | 1994 – 1994 | under a year | ending not on record | |
| Teburoro Tito | 1994 – 2003 | 9 years | ending not on record | |
| Tion Otang | 2003 – 2003 | under a year | ending not on record | |
| Anote Tong | 2003 – 2016 | 13 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Taneti Maamau | 2016 – in office | in office since 2016 | still in office |
7 rulers, 7 with terms dated as terms, covering 1979 – 2016. Only 37 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 0 of 6 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 0.63, limit 0.6). A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Flags and arms, in order
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
flag, from 1979Flag of Kiribati · Public domain 
coat of arms, from 1979Coat of arms of Kiribati · 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 – 19996 rows
- Anote Tong · ruler · 1952 – present
- Taneti Maamau · ruler · 1960 – present
- Teburoro Tito · ruler · 1953 – present
- Ieremia Tabai · ruler · 1949 – present
- Teatao Teannaki · ruler · 1936 – 2016
- Treaty of Tarawa · treaty · 1979
2000 – 20992 rows
- Tion Otang · ruler · 2000 – present
- Ata Teaotai · ruler · 2000 – present
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.
- 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 record7
has more rulers on record than 73% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1969 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 2003, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q710 (CC0) · 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.