State · 1975 – present
Mozambique
A state of 1975 – present — 51 years, still standing in sub-Saharan Africa. It replaced People's Republic of Mozambique. The atlas records 11 things within it — wars and battles 2 · famine and plague 1 · natural disasters 2 · treaties 1 · people 5. Its line of rulers holds 5 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
- 51 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 5
- the President of Mozambique
- Most ground
- 786,900 km²
- in 1976
- Within it
- 11
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 5
- 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
- People's Republic of Mozambique · replaces · 1975 – 1990
Rulers
The line of President of Mozambique - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Samora Machel | 1975 – 1986 | 11 years | died by accidentWikidata's manner of death | |
| Joaquim Chissano | 1986 – 2005 | 19 years | ending not on record | |
| Armando Guebuza | 2005 – 2015 | 10 years | ending not on record | |
| Filipe Nyusi | 2015 – 2025 | 10 years | ending not on record | |
| Daniel Chapo | 2025 – in office | in office since 2025 | still in office |
5 rulers, 5 with terms dated as terms, covering 1975 – 2025. Median reign 10.5 years. 0 of 4 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 Mozambique, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Joaquim Chissano | 1974 – 1975 |
| Mário da Graça Machungo | 1986 – 1994 |
| Pascoal Mocumbi | 1994 – 2004 |
| Luísa Diogo | 2004 – 2010 |
| Aires Ali | 2010 – 2012 |
| Alberto Vaquina | 2012 – 2015 |
| Carlos Agostinho do Rosário | 2015 – 2022 |
| Adriano Maleiane | 2022 – 2025 |
| Maria Benvinda Levy | 2025 – … |
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.
786,900 km² in 1985, 786,900 km² in 2015; at its largest 786,900 km² in 1985. 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.
.svg/120px-Flag_of_Mozambique_(1983).svg.png)
flag, to 1983Flag of Mozambique (1983) · Public domain 
coat of arms, from 1929Emblem of Mozambique · CC0 .svg/120px-Flag_of_Mozambique_(1974%E2%80%931975).svg.png)
flag, 1974 – 1975Flag of Mozambique (1974–1975) · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_Mozambique_(1975%E2%80%931983).svg.png)
flag, 1975 – 1983Flag of Mozambique (1975–1983) · Public domain 
flag, from 1983Flag of Mozambique · 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 – 19996 rows · 1 wars and battles
- Samora Machel · ruler · 1933 – 1986
- Joaquim Chissano · ruler · 1939 – present
- Filipe Nyusi · ruler · 1959 – present
- Armando Guebuza · ruler · 1943 – present
- Mozambican Civil War · war · 1977 – 1992
- Daniel Chapo · ruler · 1977 – present
2000 – 20995 rows · 1 wars and battles
- Maputo Protocol · treaty · 2003
- Insurgency in Cabo Delgado · war · 2017
- 2000 Mozambique flood · disaster · 2000
- COVID-19 pandemic in Mozambique · plague · 2020
- 2007 Mozambican flood · disaster · 2007
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 stood51 years
stood longer than 34% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held786,900 km²
held more ground at its peak than 81% 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 median11 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 38% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record5
has more rulers on record than 64% 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, 1965 – 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 Q1029 (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.