State · 1918 – present
Lithuania
A state of 1918 – present — 108 years, still standing in Europe. It replaced Soviet Union and Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic. The atlas records 41 things within it — wars and battles 15 · regime change 1 · unrest and atrocity 7 · famine and plague 1 · people 17. Its line of rulers holds 13 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
- 108 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 13
- the President of the Republic of Lithuania
- Most ground
- 65,000 km²
- in 1990
- Within it
- 41
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 4
- 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
- Soviet Union · replaces · 1923 – 1991
- Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic · replaces
Rulers
The line of President of the Republic of Lithuania - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antanas Smetona | 1919 – 1920 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Aleksandras Stulginskis | 1920 – 1926 | 6 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Kazys Grinius | 1926 – 1926 | under a year | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Jonas Staugaitis | 1926 – 1926 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Antanas Smetona | 1926 – 1940 | 14 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Justas Paleckis | 1940 – 1940 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Antanas Merkys | 1940 – 1940 | under a year | served out the term, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Jonas Žemaitis | 1949 – 1954 | 5 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Algirdas Brazauskas | 1993 – 1998 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Valdas Adamkus | 1998 – 2003 | 5 years | ending not on record | |
| Rolandas Paksas | 2003 – 2004 | 1 year | ending not on record | |
| Artūras Paulauskas | 2004 – 2004 | under a year | deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Valdas Adamkus | 2004 – 2009 | 5 years | ending not on record | |
| Dalia Grybauskaitė | 2009 – 2019 | 10 years | ending not on record | |
| Gitanas Nausėda | 2019 – in office | in office since 2019 | still in office |
13 rulers, 13 with terms dated as terms, covering 1919 – 2019. Median reign 3 years. 8 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 Lithuania, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Augustinas Voldemaras | 1918 – 1918 |
| Ernestas Galvanauskas | 1919 – 1920 |
| Kazys Grinius | 1920 – 1922 |
| Ernestas Galvanauskas | 1922 – 1924 |
| Augustinas Voldemaras | 1926 – 1929 |
| Antanas Merkys | 1939 – 1940 |
| Kazimira Prunskienė | 1990 – 1991 |
| Albertas Šimėnas | 1991 – 1991 |
| Gediminas Vagnorius | 1991 – 1992 |
| Aleksandras Abišala | 1992 – 1992 |
| Bronislovas Lubys | 1992 – 1993 |
| Adolfas Šleževičius | 1993 – 1996 |
| Laurynas Stankevičius | 1996 – 1996 |
| Gediminas Vagnorius | 1996 – 1999 |
| Irena Degutienė | 1999 – 1999 |
| Andrius Kubilius | 1999 – 2000 |
| Rolandas Paksas | 2000 – 2001 |
| Eugenijus Gentvilas | 2001 – 2001 |
| Algirdas Brazauskas | 2001 – 2006 |
| Zigmantas Balčytis | 2006 – 2006 |
| Gediminas Kirkilas | 2006 – 2008 |
| Andrius Kubilius | 2008 – 2012 |
| Algirdas Butkevičius | 2012 – 2016 |
| Saulius Skvernelis | 2016 – 2020 |
| Ingrida Šimonytė | 2020 – 2024 |
| Gintautas Paluckas | 2024 – 2025 |
| Inga Ruginienė | 2025 – 2026 |
| Rimantas Šadžius | 2025 – 2025 |
| Mindaugas Sinkevičius | 2026 – … |
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.
62,400 km² in 1928, 64,900 km² in 2018; at its largest 64,900 km² in 1998. 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, from 1382Coat of arms of Lithuania · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_Lithuania_(1918%E2%80%931940).svg.png)
flag, 1918 – 1940Flag of Lithuania (1918–1940) · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_Lithuania_(1988%E2%80%932004).svg.png)
flag, 1990 – 2004Flag of Lithuania (1988–2004) · Public domain 
flag, from 2004Flag of Lithuania · 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 · 15 wars and battles · 8 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Dalia Grybauskaitė · ruler · 1956 – present
- Gitanas Nausėda · ruler · 1964 – present
- Valdas Adamkus · ruler · 1926 – present
- Algirdas Brazauskas · ruler · 1932 – 2010
- Vytautas Landsbergis · politician · 1932 – present
- Rolandas Paksas · ruler · 1956 – present
- Artūras Paulauskas · ruler · 1953 – present
- January Events · unrest · 1991
and 26 more in the atlas.
2000 – 20991 row
- COVID-19 pandemic in Lithuania · plague · 2020
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 stood108 years
stood longer than 48% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held65,000 km²
held more ground at its peak than 37% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century3.7
had more wars on record per century than 99% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median5 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 18% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record13
has more rulers on record than 85% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 8 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, 1907 – 2037, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1990, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q37 (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.