State · 1970 – present

Oman

A state of 1970 – present — 56 years, still standing in the Middle East and North Africa. It replaced Imamate of Oman. The atlas records 6 things within it — regime change 1 · famine and plague 1 · people 4. Its line of rulers holds 10 people, 3 with dated terms.

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: 56 years; and still standing
Rulers: 10; the Sultan of Oman
Most ground: 314,900 km²; in 1973
Within it: 6; recorded rows
Symbols: 3; on record, with years

Map: Oman in 1973, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Oman in 1973, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 314,900 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

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

Imamate of Oman · replaces · 751 – 1970

Rulers

The line of Sultan of Oman - the office this state names as its head of state.

died in officeleft alive by a regular roadstill in office

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Said bin Taimur	1932 – 1970	38 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Qaboos bin Said	1970 – 2020	50 years	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death	child
Haitham bin Tariq	2020 – in office	in office since 2020	still in office	another recorded relative

10 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 1932 – 2020. Median reign 44 years. 1 of 2 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”.

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.

314,900 km² in 1980, 314,900 km² in 2020; at its largest 314,900 km² in 1980. 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, undatedFlag of Oman (1970–1995) · Public domain
coat of arms, undatedNational emblem of Oman · OGL-om 1.0 · See File history below for details.
flag, from 1995Flag of Oman · OGL-om 1.0 · See File history below for details.

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 – 19994 rows · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres

Qaboos bin Said · ruler · 1940 – 2020
Haitham bin Tariq · ruler · 1955 – present
1970 Omani coup d'état · adverse regime change · 1970
Ghalib bin Ali · ruler · 1912 – 2009

2000 – 20991 row

COVID-19 pandemic in Oman · 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 stood56 years
stood longer than 36% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held314,900 km²
held more ground at its peak than 67% 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.
How long a reign lasted, at the median50 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 95% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record10
has more rulers on record than 80% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 5 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.

in the articlelinkedcoincidence

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, 1960 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1973, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q842 (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.