State · 1968 – present

Nauru

A state of 1968 – present — 58 years, still standing in the Americas and Oceania. It replaced Trust Territory of Nauru. The atlas records 18 things within it — famine and plague 1 · people 17. Its line of rulers holds 17 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: 58 years; and still standing
Rulers: 17; the President of Nauru
Within it: 18; recorded rows
Symbols: 2; on record, with years

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

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

Trust Territory of Nauru · replaces

Rulers

The line of President of Nauru - the office this state names as its head of state.

deposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source
Hammer DeRoburt	1968 – 1976	8 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Bernard Dowiyogo	1976 – 1978	2 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Lagumot Harris	1978 – 1978	under a year	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Hammer DeRoburt	1978 – 1986	8 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Kennan Adeang	1986 – 1986	under a year	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Kenas Aroi	1989 – 1989	under a year	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Bernard Dowiyogo	1989 – 1995	6 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Lagumot Harris	1995 – 1996	1 year	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Bernard Dowiyogo	1996 – 1996	under a year	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Kennan Adeang	1996 – 1996	under a year	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Ruben Kun	1996 – 1997	1 year	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Kinza Clodumar	1997 – 1998	1 year	deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Bernard Dowiyogo	1998 – 1999	1 year	left office aliveread off the dates alone
René Harris	1999 – 2000	1 year	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Bernard Dowiyogo	2000 – 2001	1 year	left office aliveread off the dates alone
René Harris	2001 – 2003	2 years	deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Bernard Dowiyogo	2003 – 2003	under a year	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death
Derog Gioura	2003 – 2003	under a year	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Ludwig Scotty	2004 – 2007	3 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Marcus Stephen	2007 – 2011	4 years	resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Freddie Pitcher	2011 – 2011	under a year	ending not on record
Sprent Dabwido	2011 – 2013	2 years	resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Baron Waqa	2013 – 2019	6 years	ending not on record
Lionel Aingimea	2019 – 2022	3 years	ending not on record
Russ Kun	2022 – 2023	1 year	ending not on record
David Adeang	2023 – in office	in office since 2023	still in office

17 rulers, 17 with terms dated as terms, covering 1968 – 2023. Median reign 1 years. 2 of 25 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 0.95, 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 1968Flag of Nauru · Public domain
coat of arms, from 2020Coat of arms of Nauru (2020) · 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 – 199917 rows

Baron Waqa · ruler · 1959 – present
Marcus Stephen · ruler · 1969 – present
Ludwig Scotty · ruler · 1948 – present
Lionel Aingimea · ruler · 1965 – present
Russ Kun · ruler · 1975 – present
Hammer DeRoburt · ruler · 1922 – 1992
Sprent Dabwido · ruler · 1972 – 2019
David Adeang · ruler · 1969 – present

and 9 more in the atlas.

2000 – 20991 row

COVID-19 pandemic in Nauru · plague · 2022

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 stood58 years
stood longer than 36% 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.
How long a reign lasted, at the median1 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 2% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record17
has more rulers on record than 90% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 1 cause 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.

linked

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, 1958 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1997, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q697 (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.