State · 1960 – present
Mauritania
A state of 1960 – present — 66 years, still standing in the Middle East and North Africa. It replaced Spanish Sahara and French West Africa. The atlas records 18 things within it — wars and battles 3 · regime change 2 · unrest and atrocity 1 · famine and plague 2 · people 10. Its line of rulers holds 10 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
- 66 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 10
- the President of Mauritania
- Most ground
- 1.06 million km²
- in 1976
- Within it
- 18
- 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
- French West Africa · replaces
- Spanish Sahara · replaces · 1884 – 1976
Rulers
The line of President of Mauritania - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moktar Ould Daddah | 1960 – 1978 | 18 years | deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Mustafa Ould Salek | 1978 – 1979 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly | 1979 – 1980 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla | 1980 – 1984 | 4 years | removed by a coupWikidata's end cause on the term | |
| Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya | 1984 – 2005 | 21 years | ending not on record | |
| Ely Ould Mohamed Vall | 2005 – 2007 | 2 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi | 2007 – 2008 | 1 year | deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Ba Mamadou Mbaré | 2009 – 2009 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz | 2009 – 2019 | 10 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Mohamed Ould Ghazouani | 2019 – in office | in office since 2019 | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article |
10 rulers, 10 with terms dated as terms, covering 1960 – 2019. Median reign 2 years. 8 of 9 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 Mauritania, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Moktar Ould Daddah | 1960 – 1961 |
| Mustafa Ould Salek | 1978 – 1979 |
| Ahmed Ould Bouceif | 1979 – 1979 |
| Ahmad Salim uld Sidi | 1979 – 1979 |
| Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla | 1979 – 1980 |
| Sid Ahmed Ould Bneijara | 1980 – 1981 |
| Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya | 1981 – 1984 |
| Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla | 1984 – 1984 |
| Cheikh El Avia Ould Mohamed Khouna | 1996 – 1997 |
| Mohamed Lemine Ould Guig | 1997 – 1998 |
| Cheikh El Avia Ould Mohamed Khouna | 1998 – 2003 |
| Sghair Ould M'Bareck | 2003 – 2005 |
| Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar | 2005 – 2007 |
| Zeine Ould Zeidane | 2007 – 2008 |
| Yahya Ould Ahmed El Waghef | 2008 – 2008 |
| Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf | 2008 – 2014 |
| Yahya Ould Hademine | 2014 – 2018 |
| Mohamed Salem Ould Béchir | 2018 – 2019 |
| Ismail Ould Bedde Ould Cheikh Sidiya | 2019 – 2020 |
| Mohamed Ould Bilal | 2020 – 2024 |
| Moctar Ould Djay | 2024 – … |
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.
1.05 million km² in 1970, 1.06 million km² in 2020; at its largest 1.06 million km² in 1980. 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, 1959 – 2017Flag of Mauritania (1959–2017) · Public domain 
flag, from 2017Flag of Mauritania · Public domain 
coat of arms, from 2018National Seal of Mauritania · 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 – 199912 rows · 2 wars and battles
- Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz · ruler · 1956 – present
- Mohamed Ould Ghazouani · ruler · 1956 – present
- Moktar Ould Daddah · ruler · 1924 – 2003
- Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi · ruler · 1938 – 2020
- Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya · ruler · 1941 – present
- Ely Ould Mohamed Vall · ruler · 1953 – 2017
- Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla · ruler · 1940 – present
- Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly · ruler · 1943 – 2019
and 4 more in the atlas.
2000 – 20996 rows · 1 wars and battles · 3 risings, regime changes and massacres
- COVID-19 pandemic in Mauritania · plague · 2020
- Western Saharan clashes (2020–present) · war · 2020
- 2008 Mauritanian coup d'état · adverse regime change · 2008
- COVID-19 pandemic in Western Sahara · plague · 2020
- 2005 Mauritanian coup d'état · adverse regime change · 2005
- 2011–2012 Mauritanian protests · unrest · 2011
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 stood66 years
stood longer than 38% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held1,056,300 km²
held more ground at its peak than 85% 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 median2 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 5% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record10
has more rulers on record than 80% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 2 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, 1950 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1976, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q1025 (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.