State · 1994 – present
Palau
A state of 1994 – present — 32 years, still standing in East and Southeast Asia. The atlas records 3 things within it — people 3. Its line of rulers holds 6 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
- 32 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 6
- the President of Palau
- Most ground
- 700 km²
- in 1996
- Within it
- 3
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 2
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.
Rulers
The line of President of Palau - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Remengesau Sr. | 1988 – 1989 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Ngiratkel Etpison | 1989 – 1993 | 4 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Kuniwo Nakamura | 1993 – 2001 | 8 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Thomas Remengesau Jr. | 2001 – 2009 | 8 years | ending not on record | |
| Johnson Toribiong | 2009 – 2013 | 4 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Thomas Remengesau Jr. | 2013 – 2021 | 8 years | ending not on record | |
| Surangel Whipps Jr. | 2021 – in office | in office since 2021 | still in office |
6 rulers, 6 with terms dated as terms, covering 1988 – 2021. Only 33 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 0 of 6 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 1.00, limit 0.6). 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.
700 km² in 1999, 700 km² in 2024; at its largest 700 km² in 1999. 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 1981Flag of Palau · Public domain 
coat of arms, from 1981Seal of Palau · 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 – 19993 rows
- Thomas Remengesau Jr. · ruler · 1956 – present
- Surangel Whipps Jr. · ruler · 1968 – present
- Johnson Toribiong · ruler · 1946 – present
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 stood32 years
stood longer than 27% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held700 km²
held more ground at its peak than 2% 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 record6
has more rulers on record than 69% 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.
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, 1984 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1996, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q695 (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.