State · 1951 – present
Libya
A state of 1951 – present — 75 years, still standing in the Middle East and North Africa. It replaced Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. The atlas records 63 things within it — wars and battles 27 · unrest and atrocity 4 · famine and plague 1 · people 31. Its line of rulers holds 3 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
- 75 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 3
- the Chairman of the Presidential Council
- Most ground
- 1.62 million km²
- in 2012
- Within it
- 63
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 9
- 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
- Libyan Arab Jamahiriya · replaces · 1977 – 2011
Rulers
The line of Chairman of the Presidential Council - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aguila Saleh Issa | 2014 – in office | in office since 2014 | still in office | |
| Fayez al-Sarraj | 2016 – 2021 | 5 years | ending not on record | |
| Mohamed al-Menfi | 2021 – in office | in office since 2021 | still in office |
3 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 2014 – 2021. 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”.
Heads of government
The line of Prime Minister of Libya, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Muhammad Sakizli | lived 1892 – 1976 |
| Mahmud al-Muntasir | lived 1903 – 1970 |
| Mahmud Sulayman al-Maghribi | lived 1935 – 2009 |
| Umar Mustafa al-Muntasir | lived 1939 – 2001 |
| Muhammad az-Zaruq Rajab | lived 1940 – … |
| Abdul Majid al-Qa′ud | lived 1943 – 2021 |
| Abdessalam Jalloud | lived 1944 – … |
| Mustafa Ben Halim | 1954 – 1957 |
| Abdul Majid Kubar | 1957 – 1960 |
| Muhammad Osman Said | 1960 – 1963 |
| Mohieddin Fikini | 1963 – 1964 |
| Hussein Maziq | 1965 – 1967 |
| Abdul Hamid al-Bakkoush | 1967 – 1968 |
| Abdul Qadir al-Badri | 1967 – 1967 |
| Wanis al-Qaddafi | 1968 – 1969 |
| Muammar Gaddafi | 1970 – 1972 |
| Abdul Ati al-Obeidi | 1977 – 1979 |
| Jadallah Azzuz at-Talhi | 1979 – 1984 |
| Jadallah Azzuz at-Talhi | 1986 – 1987 |
| Abuzed Omar Dorda | 1990 – 1994 |
| Mohamed Ahmed Mangush | 1997 – 2000 |
| Imbarek Shamekh | 2000 – 2003 |
| Shukri Ghanem | 2003 – 2006 |
| Baghdadi Mahmudi | 2006 – 2011 |
| Mahmoud Jibril | 2011 – 2011 |
| Abdurrahim El-Keib | 2011 – 2012 |
| Ali Tarhouni | 2011 – 2011 |
| Ali Zeidan | 2012 – 2014 |
| Abdullah al-Thani | 2014 – 2014 |
| Ahmed Miitig | 2014 – 2014 |
| Omar al-Hasi | 2014 – 2015 |
| Khalifa al-Ghawi | 2016 – 2017 |
| Fayez al-Sarraj | 2016 – 2021 |
| Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh | 2021 – … |
| Fathi Bashagha | 2022 – … |
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.
1.62 million km² in 2021. 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.
flag, 1951 – 1969Flag of Libya · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_Libya_(1969%E2%80%931972).svg.png)
flag, 1969 – 1972Flag of Libya (1969–1972) · Public domain .svg/120px-Coat_of_arms_of_Libya_(1969%E2%80%931972).svg.png)
coat of arms, 1969 – 1971Coat of arms of Libya (1969–1972) · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_Libya_(1972%E2%80%931977).svg.png)
flag, 1972 – 1977Flag of Libya (1972–1977) · Public domain .svg/120px-Coat_of_arms_of_Libya_(1977%E2%80%932011).svg.png)
coat of arms, 1977 – 2011Coat of arms of Libya (1977–2011) · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_Libya_(1977%E2%80%932011).svg.png)
flag, 1977 – 2011Flag of Libya (1977–2011) · Public domain flag, from 2011Flag of Libya · Public domain .svg/120px-Seal_of_the_National_Transitional_Council_(Libya%2C_early_version).svg.png)
coat of arms, 2011 – 2011Seal of the National Transitional Council (Libya, early version) · Public domain .svg/120px-Seal_of_the_Government_of_National_Unity_(Libya).svg.png)
coat of arms, from 2021Seal of the Government of National Unity (Libya) · 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 – 199934 rows · 4 wars and battles · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Fayez al-Sarraj · ruler · 1960 – present
- Saif al-Islam Gaddafi · inventor · 1972 – present
- Mustafa Abdul Jalil · politician · 1952 – present
- Mahmoud Jibril · politician · 1952 – 2020
- Al-Saadi Gaddafi · commander · 1973 – present
- 1986 United States bombing of Libya · battle · 1986
- Mohamed al-Menfi · ruler · 1976 – present
- Aisha Gaddafi · politician · 1976 – present
and 26 more in the atlas.
2000 – 209929 rows · 23 wars and battles · 3 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Libyan civil war · unrest · 2011
- 2011 military intervention in Libya · battle · 2011
- Libyan civil war · war · 2014 – 2020
- Operation Odyssey Dawn · battle · 2011
- 2012 Benghazi attack · battle · 2012
- Battle of Tripoli · battle · 2011
- 21 Coptic Christian Martyrs of Libya · atrocity · 2015
- Fathi Terbil · politician · 2000 – present
and 21 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 stood75 years
stood longer than 41% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held1,616,800 km²
held more ground at its peak than 89% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century3.0
had more wars on record per century than 99% 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: 14 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, 1941 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 2012, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q1016 (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.