State · 1841 – present
New Zealand
A state of 1841 – present — 185 years, still standing in the Americas and Oceania. It replaced Dominion of New Zealand and Colony of New Zealand. The atlas records 28 things within it — wars and battles 4 · unrest and atrocity 1 · famine and plague 1 · natural disasters 9 · treaties 1 · people 12. Its line of rulers holds 4 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
- 185 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 4
- the monarch of New Zealand
- Most ground
- 296,100 km²
- in 1948
- Within it
- 28
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 3
- 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
- Dominion of New Zealand · replaces
- Colony of New Zealand · replaces
Rulers
The line of monarch of New Zealand - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edward VIII | 1936 – 1936 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| George VI | 1947 – 1952 | 5 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | sibling |
| Elizabeth II | 1952 – 2022 | 70 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | child |
| Charles III | 2022 – in office | in office since 2022 | still in office | child |
4 rulers, 4 with terms dated as terms, covering 1936 – 2022. Median reign 5 years. 1 of 3 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 New Zealand, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| William Fox | 1856 – 1856 |
| Edward Stafford | 1856 – 1861 |
| Henry Sewell | 1856 – 1856 |
| William Fox | 1861 – 1862 |
| Alfred Domett | 1862 – 1863 |
| Frederick Whitaker | 1863 – 1864 |
| Frederick Weld | 1864 – 1865 |
| Edward Stafford | 1865 – 1869 |
| William Fox | 1869 – 1872 |
| George Marsden Waterhouse | 1872 – 1873 |
| Edward Stafford | 1872 – 1872 |
| William Fox | 1873 – 1873 |
| Julius Vogel | 1873 – 1875 |
| Daniel Pollen | 1875 – 1876 |
| Harry Atkinson | 1876 – 1877 |
| Julius Vogel | 1876 – 1876 |
| George Grey | 1877 – 1879 |
| John Hall | 1879 – 1882 |
| Frederick Whitaker | 1882 – 1883 |
| Harry Atkinson | 1884 – 1884 |
| Robert Stout | 1884 – 1887 |
| Harry Atkinson | 1887 – 1891 |
| John Ballance | 1891 – 1893 |
| Richard Seddon | 1893 – 1906 |
| Joseph Ward | 1906 – 1912 |
| William Hall-Jones | 1906 – 1906 |
| Thomas Mackenzie | 1912 – 1912 |
| William Massey | 1912 – 1925 |
| Gordon Coates | 1925 – 1928 |
| Francis Bell | 1925 – 1925 |
| Joseph Ward | 1928 – 1930 |
| George Forbes | 1930 – 1935 |
| Michael Joseph Savage | 1935 – 1940 |
| Peter Fraser | 1940 – 1949 |
| Sidney Holland | 1949 – 1957 |
| Keith Holyoake | 1957 – 1957 |
| Walter Nash | 1957 – 1960 |
| Keith Holyoake | 1960 – 1972 |
| Norman Kirk | 1972 – 1974 |
| Jack Marshall | 1972 – 1972 |
| Hugh Watt | 1974 – 1974 |
| Bill Rowling | 1974 – 1975 |
| Robert Muldoon | 1975 – 1984 |
| David Lange | 1984 – 1989 |
| Geoffrey Palmer | 1989 – 1990 |
| Jim Bolger | 1990 – 1997 |
| Mike Moore | 1990 – 1990 |
| Jenny Shipley | 1997 – 1999 |
| Helen Clark | 1999 – 2008 |
| John Key | 2008 – 2016 |
| Bill English | 2016 – 2017 |
| Jacinda Ardern | 2017 – 2023 |
| Chris Hipkins | 2023 – 2023 |
| Christopher Luxon | 2023 – … |
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.
296,100 km² in 1951, 296,100 km² in 2021; at its largest 296,100 km² in 1951. 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.
flag, from 1903Flag of New Zealand · Public domain .svg/120px-Coat_of_arms_of_New_Zealand_(1911%E2%80%931956).svg.png)
coat of arms, 1911 – 1956Coat of arms of New Zealand (1911–1956) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Sodacan 
coat of arms, from 1956Coat of arms of New Zealand · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Sodacan
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.
1800 – 18997 rows · 3 wars and battles
- Ernest Rutherford · scientist · 1871 – 1937
- New Zealand Wars · war · 1845 – 1872
- Keith Park · commander · 1892 – 1975
- Arthur Coningham · commander · 1895 – 1948
- Flagstaff War · war · 1845 – 1846
- Wairau Affray · war · 1843
- 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera · disaster · 1886
1900 – 199911 rows · 1 wars and battles
- Edmund Hillary · explorer · 1919 – 2008
- Jacinda Ardern · politician · 1980 – present
- Peter Jackson · writer · 1961 – present
- Helen Clark · politician · 1950 – present
- John Key · politician · 1961 – present
- Christopher Luxon · politician · 1970 – present
- Ronald Syme · scientist · 1903 – 1989
- Winston Peters · politician · 1945 – present
and 3 more in the atlas.
2000 – 209910 rows · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Christchurch mosque shootings · atrocity · 2019
- 2011 Christchurch earthquake · disaster · 2011
- Trans-Pacific Partnership · treaty · 2016
- 2010 Canterbury earthquake · disaster · 2010
- COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand · plague · 2020
- 2016 Kaikōura earthquake · disaster · 2016
- June 2011 Christchurch earthquake · disaster · 2011
- 2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption · disaster · 2019
and 2 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 stood185 years
stood longer than 60% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held296,100 km²
held more ground at its peak than 65% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century1.6
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 median5 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 18% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record4
has more rulers on record than 58% 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, 1822 – 2045, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1948, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q664 (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.