State · 1979 – present
Marshall Islands
A state of 1979 – present — 47 years, still standing in the Americas and Oceania. The atlas records 11 things within it — people 11. Its line of rulers holds 11 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
- 11
- the President of the Marshall Islands
- Within it
- 11
- 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 the Marshall Islands - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amata Kabua | 1979 – 1996 | 17 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | |
| Kunio Lemari | 1996 – 1997 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Imata Kabua | 1997 – 2000 | 3 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Kessai Note | 2000 – 2008 | 8 years | lost an election, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Litokwa Tomeing | 2008 – 2009 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Ruben Zackhras | 2009 – 2009 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Jurelang Zedkaia | 2009 – 2012 | 3 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Christopher Loeak | 2012 – 2016 | 4 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Casten Nemra | 2016 – 2016 | under a year | deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Hilda Heine | 2016 – 2020 | 4 years | ending not on record | |
| David Kabua | 2020 – 2024 | 4 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Hilda Heine | 2024 – in office | in office since 2024 | still in office |
11 rulers, 11 with terms dated as terms, covering 1979 – 2024. Only 45 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 1 of 11 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 0.74, 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 the Marshall Islands · Public domain 
coat of arms, from 1986Seal of the Marshall Islands · 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 – 199911 rows
- Hilda Heine · ruler · 1951 – present
- Christopher Loeak · ruler · 1952 – 2025
- David Kabua · ruler · 1951 – present
- Amata Kabua · ruler · 1928 – 1996
- Kessai Note · ruler · 1950 – present
- Litokwa Tomeing · ruler · 1939 – 2020
- Imata Kabua · ruler · 1943 – 2019
- Jurelang Zedkaia · ruler · 1950 – 2015
and 3 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 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 record11
has more rulers on record than 83% 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 Q709 (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.