State · 1990 – present
Namibia
A state of 1990 – present — 36 years, still standing in sub-Saharan Africa. It replaced South West Africa and History of South Africa. The atlas records 6 things within it — famine and plague 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
- 36 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 5
- the President of the Republic of Namibia
- Most ground
- 834,600 km²
- in 1990
- Within it
- 6
- 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
- South West Africa · replaces · 1915 – 1990
- History of South Africa · replaces · 1948 – 1994
Rulers
The line of President of the Republic of Namibia - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sam Nujoma | 1990 – 2005 | 15 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Hifikepunye Pohamba | 2005 – 2015 | 10 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Hage Geingob | 2015 – 2024 | 9 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | |
| Nangolo Mbumba | 2024 – 2025 | 1 year | ending not on record | |
| Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah | 2025 – in office | in office since 2025 | still in office |
5 rulers, 5 with terms dated as terms, covering 1990 – 2025. Only 35 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 0 of 4 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 0.61, 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 Prime Minister of the Republic of Namibia, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Eben van Zijl | lived 1931 – 2009 |
| Andreas Shipanga | lived 1931 – 2012 |
| Hage Geingob | 1990 – 2002 |
| Theo-Ben Gurirab | 2002 – 2005 |
| Nahas Angula | 2005 – 2012 |
| Hage Geingob | 2012 – 2015 |
| Saara Kuugongelwa | 2015 – 2025 |
| Elijah Ngurare | 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.
834,600 km² in 1990, 834,600 km² in 2020; at its largest 834,600 km² in 1990. 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, from 1990Coat of arms of Namibia · Public domain 
flag, from 1990Flag of Namibia · 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 – 19995 rows
- Sam Nujoma · ruler · 1929 – 2025
- Hage Geingob · ruler · 1941 – 2024
- Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah · ruler · 1952 – present
- Hifikepunye Pohamba · ruler · 1935 – present
- Nangolo Mbumba · ruler · 1941 – present
2000 – 20991 row
- COVID-19 pandemic in Namibia · 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 stood36 years
stood longer than 29% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held834,600 km²
held more ground at its peak than 82% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- 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 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: 4 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, 1980 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1990, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q1030 (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.