State · 1988 – present
Myanmar
A state of 1988 – present — 38 years, still standing in East and Southeast Asia. It replaced British rule in Burma and followed Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma and Burma/Myanmar under the State Peace and Development Council. The atlas records 27 things within it — wars and battles 3 · regime change 1 · unrest and atrocity 9 · famine and plague 1 · natural disasters 6 · people 7. Its line of rulers holds 8 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
- 38 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 8
- the President of Myanmar
- Within it
- 27
- 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
- Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma · follows · 1962 – 1988
- British rule in Burma · replaces · 1824 – 1948
- Burma/Myanmar under the State Peace and Development Council · follows
Rulers
The line of President of Myanmar - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Yu | 1981 – 1988 | 7 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Maung Maung | 1988 – 1988 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Than Shwe | 1992 – 2011 | 19 years | ending not on record | |
| Thein Sein | 2011 – 2016 | 5 years | ending not on record | |
| Htin Kyaw | 2016 – 2018 | 2 years | ending not on record | |
| Myint Swe | 2018 – 2018 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Win Myint | 2018 – 2021 | 3 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Myint Swe | 2021 – 2024 | 3 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Win Myint | 2021 – in office | in office since 2021 | still in office | |
| Min Aung Hlaing | 2024 – in office | in office since 2024 | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article |
8 rulers, 8 with terms dated as terms, covering 1981 – 2024. Only 43 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 4 of 9 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 0.70, 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 head of government, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Thein Sein | 2007 – 2011 |
| Aung San Suu Kyi | 2016 – 2021 |
| Min Aung Hlaing | 2021 – … |
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.
677,800 km² in 1988, 677,800 km² in 2023; at its largest 677,800 km² in 1988. 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.
coat of arms, undatedState Seal of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar · Public domain 
flag, from 2010Flag of Myanmar · 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
- Than Shwe · ruler · 1933 – present
- Thein Sein · ruler · 1945 – present
- Min Aung Hlaing · ruler · 1956 – present
- Win Myint · ruler · 1951 – present
- Htin Kyaw · ruler · 1946 – present
- Myint Swe · ruler · 1951 – 2025
- 8888 Uprising · unrest · 1988
- Maung Maung · ruler · 1925 – 1994
2000 – 209919 rows · 3 wars and battles · 9 risings, regime changes and massacres
- 2025 Myanmar earthquake · disaster · 2025
- 2021 Myanmar coup d'état · adverse regime change · 2021
- Myanmar civil war · war · 2021
- Rohingya genocide · atrocity · 2016
- Saffron Revolution · unrest · 2007
- Myanmar protests · unrest · 2021
- 2011 Shan earthquake · disaster · 2011
- COVID-19 pandemic in Myanmar · plague · 2020
and 11 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 stood38 years
stood longer than 30% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held677,800 km²
held more ground at its peak than 79% 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.
- Rulers on record8
has more rulers on record than 76% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 8 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, 1978 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 2007, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q836 (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.