State · 1965 – present
Maldives
A state of 1965 – present — 61 years, still standing in South Asia. It replaced United Suvadive Republic and Sultanate of the Maldive Islands. The atlas records 9 things within it — regime change 1 · famine and plague 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
- 61 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 7
- the President of the Maldives
- Within it
- 9
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 2
- 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
- Sultanate of the Maldive Islands · replaces · 1153 – 1968
- United Suvadive Republic · replaces · 1959 – 1963
Rulers
The line of President of the Maldives - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ibrahim Nasir | 1968 – 1978 | 10 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Maumoon Abdul Gayoom | 1978 – 2008 | 30 years | ending not on record | |
| Mohamed Nasheed | 2008 – 2012 | 4 years | exiled, imprisoned or confined, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Mohamed Waheed Hassan | 2012 – 2013 | 1 year | ending not on record | |
| Abdulla Yameen | 2013 – 2018 | 5 years | lost an election, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Ibrahim Mohamed Solih | 2018 – 2023 | 5 years | ending not on record | |
| Mohamed Muizzu | 2023 – in office | in office since 2023 | still in office |
7 rulers, 7 with terms dated as terms, covering 1968 – 2023. Median reign 5 years. 2 of 6 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”.
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 1965Emblem of Maldives · Public domain 
flag, from 1965Flag of Maldives · 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 – 19998 rows · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Maumoon Abdul Gayoom · ruler · 1937 – present
- Abdulla Yameen · ruler · 1959 – present
- Mohamed Nasheed · ruler · 1967 – present
- Mohamed Muizzu · ruler · 1978 – present
- Ibrahim Mohamed Solih · ruler · 1964 – present
- Mohamed Waheed Hassan · ruler · 1953 – present
- Ibrahim Nasir · ruler · 1926 – 2008
- 1988 Maldives coup attempt · adverse regime change · 1988
2000 – 20991 row
- COVID-19 pandemic in the Maldives · 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 stood61 years
stood longer than 37% 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.
- 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 record7
has more rulers on record than 73% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 3 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, 1955 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1996, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q826 (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.