State · 1949 – present
People's Republic of China
A state of 1949 – present — 77 years, still standing in East and Southeast Asia. It replaced Republic of China, Inner Mongolian People's Republic and Chiang Hung and 1 more. The atlas records 116 things within it — wars and battles 14 · unrest and atrocity 25 · famine and plague 7 · natural disasters 26 · treaties 1 · people 43. 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
- 77 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 6
- the Paramount leader
- Most ground
- 9.40 million km²
- in 2000
- Within it
- 116
- 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 China · replaces · 1912 – 1971
- Chiang Hung · replaces · 1180 – 1950
- Kingdom Shunzheng · replaces
- Inner Mongolian People's Republic · replaces · 1945
Rulers
The leaders of its ruling party, read from English Wikipedia, Paramount leader of China, revision 1377848150 - the line the atlas measures; its formal heads of state are listed with the government below.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mao Zedong | 1949 – 1976 | 27 years | ending not on record | |
| Hua Guofeng | 1976 – 1978 | 2 years | ending not on record | |
| Deng Xiaoping | 1978 – 1989 | 11 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Jiang Zemin | 1989 – 2002 | 13 years | ending not on record | |
| Hu Jintao | 2002 – 2012 | 10 years | ending not on record | |
| Xi Jinping | 2012 – in office | in office since 2012 | still in office |
6 rulers, 6 with terms dated as terms, covering 1949 – 2012. Median reign 11 years. 2 of 5 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”.
Formal heads of state and heads of government
The line of Premier of the People's Republic of China, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Zhou Enlai | 1954 – 1976 |
| Mao Zedong | 1954 – 1959 |
| Liu Shaoqi | 1959 – 1968 |
| Soong Ching-ling | 1968 – 1975 |
| Dong Biwu | 1968 – 1975 |
| Zhu De | 1975 – 1976 |
| Hua Guofeng | 1976 – 1980 |
| Soong Ching-ling | 1976 – 1978 |
| Ye Jianying | 1978 – 1983 |
| Zhao Ziyang | 1980 – 1987 |
| Li Xiannian | 1983 – 1988 |
| Li Peng | 1988 – 1998 |
| Yang Shangkun | 1988 – 1993 |
| Jiang Zemin | 1993 – 2003 |
| Zhu Rongji | 1998 – 2003 |
| Wen Jiabao | 2003 – 2013 |
| Hu Jintao | 2003 – 2013 |
| Li Keqiang | 2013 – 2023 |
| Xi Jinping | 2013 – … |
| Li Qiang | 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.
9.36 million km² in 1959, 9.40 million km² in 2019; at its largest 9.40 million km² in 2009. 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 1949Flag of the People's Republic of China · Public domain 
coat of arms, from 1950中華人民共和國國徽 · 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 – 199969 rows · 12 wars and battles · 14 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Xi Jinping · ruler · 1953 – present
- Vietnam War · war · 1955 – 1975
- Cultural Revolution · unrest · 1966 – 1976
- Hu Jintao · ruler · 1942 – present
- Jet Li · writer · 1963 – present
- Liu Xiaobo · writer · 1955 – 2017
- Mo Yan · writer · 1955 – present
- Jiang Zemin · ruler · 1926 – 2022
and 61 more in the atlas.
2000 – 209941 rows · 2 wars and battles · 11 risings, regime changes and massacres
- 2008 Sichuan earthquake · disaster · 2008
- 2026 Nepal–Tibet floods · disaster · 2026
- Tank Man · politician · 2000 – present
- COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China · plague · 2019
- Persecution of Uyghurs in China · atrocity · 2014
- 2022 COVID-19 protests in China · unrest · 2022 – 2023
- 2025 Tibet earthquake · disaster · 2025
- 2008 Tibetan unrest · unrest · 2008
and 33 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 stood77 years
stood longer than 42% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held9,397,800 km²
held more ground at its peak than 99% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century5.0
had more wars on record per century than 99% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median11 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 38% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- 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: 46 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, 1939 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 2000, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q148 (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.