State · 1963 – present
Malaysia
A state of 1963 – present — 63 years, still standing in East and Southeast Asia. It replaced Federation of Malaya, North Borneo and Crown Colony of Sarawak. The atlas records 25 things within it — wars and battles 2 · unrest and atrocity 3 · famine and plague 1 · natural disasters 3 · treaties 1 · people 15. Its line of rulers holds 16 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
- 63 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 16
- the Yang di-Pertuan Agong
- Most ground
- 349,300 km²
- in 1963
- Within it
- 25
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 3
- 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
- Federation of Malaya · replaces · 1948 – 1963
- North Borneo · replaces
- Crown Colony of Sarawak · replaces
Rulers
The line of Yang di-Pertuan Agong - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan | 1957 – 1960 | 3 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Hisamuddin of Selangor | 1960 – 1960 | under a year | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Putra of Perlis | 1960 – 1965 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Ismail Nasiruddin of Terengganu | 1965 – 1970 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Abdul Halim of Kedah | 1970 – 1975 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Yahya Petra of Kelantan | 1975 – 1979 | 4 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Ahmad Shah of Pahang | 1979 – 1984 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Iskandar of Johor | 1984 – 1989 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Azlan Shah of Perak | 1989 – 1994 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Ja'afar of Negeri Sembilan | 1994 – 1999 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Salahuddin of Selangor | 1999 – 2001 | 2 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Sirajuddin of Perlis | 2001 – 2006 | 5 years | ending not on record | |
| Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu | 2006 – 2011 | 5 years | ending not on record | |
| Abdul Halim of Kedah | 2011 – 2016 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Muhammad V of Kelantan | 2016 – 2019 | 3 years | ending not on record | |
| Abdullah of Pahang | 2019 – 2024 | 5 years | ending not on record | |
| Ibrahim Iskandar of Johor | 2024 – in office | in office since 2024 | still in office |
16 rulers, 16 with terms dated as terms, covering 1957 – 2024. Median reign 5 years. 0 of 16 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 Malaysia, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Tunku Abdul Rahman | 1957 – 1970 |
| Abdul Razak Hussein | 1970 – 1976 |
| Hussein Onn | 1976 – 1981 |
| Mahathir Mohamad | 1981 – 2003 |
| Abdullah Ahmad Badawi | 2003 – 2009 |
| Najib Razak | 2009 – 2018 |
| Mahathir Mohamad | 2018 – 2020 |
| Muhyiddin Yassin | 2020 – 2021 |
| Ismail Sabri Yaakob | 2021 – 2022 |
| Anwar Ibrahim | 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.
349,300 km² in 1963, 348,800 km² in 2023; at its largest 349,300 km² in 1963. 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, 1950 – 1963Flag of Malaya (1950–1963) · CC BY-SA 2.5 · No machine-readable author provided. Nightstallion assumed (based on copyright claims). 
flag, from 1963Flag of Malaysia · Public domain 
coat of arms, from 1965Coat of arms of Malaysia · 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 – 199919 rows · 1 wars and battles · 2 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Abdullah of Pahang · ruler · 1959 – present
- Abdul Halim of Kedah · ruler · 1927 – 2017
- Ibrahim Iskandar of Johor · ruler · 1958 – present
- Muhammad V of Kelantan · ruler · 1969 – present
- Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu · ruler · 1962 – present
- Sirajuddin of Perlis · ruler · 1943 – present
- Konfrontasi · war · 1963 – 1966
- Iskandar of Johor · ruler · 1932 – 2010
and 11 more in the atlas.
2000 – 20996 rows · 1 wars and battles · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia · plague · 2020
- 2021–2022 Malaysian floods · disaster · 2021
- Assassination of Kim Jong-nam · atrocity · 2017
- 2013 Lahad Datu standoff · war · 2013
- 2015 Sabah earthquake · disaster · 2015
- 2022 Batang Kali landslide · disaster · 2022
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 stood63 years
stood longer than 38% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held349,300 km²
held more ground at its peak than 68% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century2.0
had more wars on record per century than 97% 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 record16
has more rulers on record than 89% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 11 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, 1953 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1963, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q833 (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.