State · 1975 – present
Papua New Guinea
A state of 1975 – present — 51 years, still standing in East and Southeast Asia. It replaced Republic of the North Solomons and Territory of Papua and New Guinea. The atlas records 6 things within it — wars and battles 1 · famine and plague 1 · natural disasters 4. Its line of rulers holds 2 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
- 51 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 2
- the monarch of Papua New Guinea
- Most ground
- 485,700 km²
- in 1976
- 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
- Republic of the North Solomons · replaces · 1975 – 1976
- Territory of Papua and New Guinea · replaces
Rulers
The line of monarch of Papua New Guinea - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth II | 1975 – 2022 | 47 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Charles III | 2022 – in office | in office since 2022 | still in office | child |
2 rulers, 2 with terms dated as terms, covering 1975 – 2022. Only 47 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 0 of 1 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 Papua New Guinea, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Michael Somare | 1975 – 1980 |
| Julius Chan | 1980 – 1982 |
| Michael Somare | 1982 – 1985 |
| Julius Chan | 1994 – 1997 |
| John Giheno | 1997 – 1997 |
| Bill Skate | 1997 – 1999 |
| Julius Chan | 1997 – 1997 |
| Mekere Morauta | 1999 – 2002 |
| Michael Somare | 2002 – 2011 |
| Sam Abal | 2010 – 2011 |
| Peter O'Neill | 2011 – 2019 |
| James Marape | 2019 – … |
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.
479,500 km² in 1975, 485,700 km² in 2015; at its largest 485,700 km² in 1985. 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 1971Flag of Papua New Guinea · Public domain 
coat of arms, from 1971National emblem of Papua New Guinea · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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.
1900 – 19992 rows · 1 wars and battles
- Bougainville conflict · war · 1988 – 1998
- 1998 Papua New Guinea earthquake · disaster · 1998
2000 – 20994 rows
- 2022 Papua New Guinea earthquake · disaster · 2022
- 2024 Enga landslide · disaster · 2024
- COVID-19 pandemic in Papua New Guinea · plague · 2020
- 2018 Papua New Guinea earthquake · disaster · 2018
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 stood51 years
stood longer than 34% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held485,700 km²
held more ground at its peak than 74% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century1.0
had more wars on record per century than 94% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- Rulers on record2
has more rulers on record than 34% 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, 1965 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1976, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q691 (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.