State · 1946 – present

Philippines

A state of 1946 – present — 80 years, still standing in East and Southeast Asia. It replaced Commonwealth of the Philippines. The atlas records 45 things within it — wars and battles 2 · regime change 1 · unrest and atrocity 6 · famine and plague 1 · natural disasters 15 · treaties 1 · people 19. Its line of rulers holds 16 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: 80 years; and still standing
Rulers: 16; the President of the Philippines
Most ground: 345,000 km²; in 1947
Within it: 45; recorded rows
Symbols: 5; on record, with years

Map: Philippines in 1947, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Philippines in 1947, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 345,000 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

Commonwealth of the Philippines · replaces · 1935 – 1946

Rulers

The line of President of the Philippines - the office this state names as its head of state.

deposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source
Manuel L. Quezon	1935 – 1944	9 years	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death
Jose P. Laurel	1943 – 1945	2 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Sergio Osmeña	1944 – 1946	2 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Manuel Roxas	1946 – 1948	2 years	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death
Elpidio Quirino	1948 – 1953	5 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Ramon Magsaysay	1953 – 1957	4 years	died by accidentWikidata's manner of death
Carlos P. Garcia	1957 – 1961	4 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Diosdado Macapagal	1961 – 1965	4 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Ferdinand Marcos	1965 – 1986	21 years	deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Corazon Aquino	1986 – 1992	6 years	resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Fidel V. Ramos	1992 – 1998	6 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Joseph Estrada	1998 – 2001	3 years	deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo	2001 – 2010	9 years	resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Benigno Aquino III	2010 – 2016	6 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Rodrigo Duterte	2016 – 2022	6 years	ending not on record
Bongbong Marcos	2022 – in office	in office since 2022	still in office

16 rulers, 16 with terms dated as terms, covering 1935 – 2022. Median reign 5 years. 4 of 15 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 0.80, 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.

345,000 km² in 1956, 345,000 km² in 2016; at its largest 345,000 km² in 1956. 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 the Philippines (1985–1986) · Public domain
flag, 1936 – 1985Flag of the Philippines (navy blue) · Public domain
coat of arms, from 1940Coat of arms of the Philippines · Public domain
flag, 1986 – 1998Flag of the Philippines (navy blue) · Public domain
flag, from 1998Flag of the Philippines · 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 – 199924 rows · 1 wars and battles · 3 risings, regime changes and massacres

Ferdinand Marcos · ruler · 1917 – 1989
Rodrigo Duterte · ruler · 1945 – present
Corazon Aquino · ruler · 1933 – 2009
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo · ruler · 1947 – present
Benigno Aquino III · ruler · 1960 – 2021
Fidel V. Ramos · ruler · 1928 – 2022
Bongbong Marcos · ruler · 1957 – present
Joseph Estrada · ruler · 1937 – present

and 16 more in the atlas.

2000 – 209918 rows · 1 wars and battles · 4 risings, regime changes and massacres

2026 Mindanao earthquake · disaster · 2026
COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines · plague · 2020
Siege of Marawi · battle · 2017
2019 Jolo Cathedral bombings · atrocity · 2019
Maguindanao massacre · atrocity · 2009
2013 Bohol earthquake · disaster · 2013
2025 Cebu earthquake · disaster · 2025
2020–2022 Taal Volcano eruptions · disaster · 2020

and 10 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 stood80 years
stood longer than 42% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held345,000 km²
held more ground at its peak than 68% 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.
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 record16
has more rulers on record than 89% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 7 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.

linkedcoincidence

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, 1936 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1947, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q928 (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.