State · 1989 – present
Poland
A state of 1989 – present — 37 years, still standing in Europe. It replaced Polish People's Republic, Congress Poland and Republic of Tarnobrzeg and 2 more and followed Samo's Empire. The atlas records 15 things within it — wars and battles 2 · unrest and atrocity 2 · famine and plague 1 · people 10. Its line of rulers holds 12 people, 11 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
- 37 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 12
- the President of the Republic of Poland
- Most ground
- 313,400 km²
- in 1953
- Within it
- 15
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 4
- 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
- Samo's Empire · follows · 631 – 658
- Polish People's Republic · replaces · 1944 – 1989
- Republic of Tarnobrzeg · replaces · 1918 – 1919
- Congress Poland · replaces · 1815 – 1915
- Regency Council · replaces · 1917 – 1918
- Rada Narodowa Księstwa Cieszyńskiego · replaces
Rulers
The line of President of the Republic of Poland - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kazimierz Sabbat | 1986 – 1989 | 3 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Wojciech Jaruzelski | 1989 – 1990 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Ryszard Kaczorowski | 1989 – 1990 | 1 year | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Lech Wałęsa | 1990 – 1995 | 5 years | ending not on record | |
| Aleksander Kwaśniewski | 1995 – 2005 | 10 years | ending not on record | |
| Lech Kaczyński | 2005 – 2010 | 5 years | died by accidentWikidata's manner of death | |
| Grzegorz Schetyna | 2010 – 2010 | under a year | ending not on record | |
| Bogdan Borusewicz | 2010 – 2010 | under a year | ending not on record | |
| Bronisław Komorowski | 2010 – 2015 | 5 years | ending not on record | |
| Andrzej Duda | 2015 – 2025 | 10 years | served out the term, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Karol Nawrocki | 2025 – in office | in office since 2025 | still in office |
12 rulers, 11 with terms dated as terms, covering 1986 – 2025. Only 39 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 1 of 10 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 0.93, limit 0.6). 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 Poland, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Wojciech Jaruzelski | 1981 – 1985 |
| Mieczysław Rakowski | 1988 – 1989 |
| Tadeusz Mazowiecki | 1989 – 1991 |
| Jan Krzysztof Bielecki | 1991 – 1991 |
| Jan Olszewski | 1991 – 1992 |
| Hanna Suchocka | 1992 – 1993 |
| Waldemar Pawlak | 1993 – 1995 |
| Józef Oleksy | 1995 – 1996 |
| Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz | 1996 – 1997 |
| Jerzy Buzek | 1997 – 2001 |
| Leszek Miller | 2001 – 2004 |
| Marek Belka | 2004 – 2005 |
| Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz | 2005 – 2006 |
| Jarosław Kaczyński | 2006 – 2007 |
| Donald Tusk | 2007 – 2014 |
| Ewa Kopacz | 2014 – 2015 |
| Beata Szydło | 2015 – 2017 |
| Mateusz Morawiecki | 2017 – 2023 |
| Donald Tusk | 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.
313,400 km² in 1989, 313,000 km² in 2024; at its largest 313,400 km² in 1989. 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.
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flag, 1919 – 1928Flag of Poland (1919–1928) · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_Poland_(1928%E2%80%931980).svg.png)
flag, 1927 – 1980Flag of Poland (1928–1980) · Public domain 
flag, from 1980Flag of Poland · Public domain 
coat of arms, from 1997Herb Polski · 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 – 199911 rows · 1 wars and battles
- Lech Wałęsa · ruler · 1943 – present
- Lech Kaczyński · ruler · 1949 – 2010
- Andrzej Duda · ruler · 1972 – present
- Wojciech Jaruzelski · ruler · 1923 – 2014
- Bronisław Komorowski · ruler · 1952 – present
- Aleksander Kwaśniewski · ruler · 1954 – present
- Karol Nawrocki · ruler · 1983 – present
- Ryszard Kaczorowski · ruler · 1919 – 2010
and 3 more in the atlas.
2000 – 20994 rows · 1 wars and battles · 2 risings, regime changes and massacres
- COVID-19 pandemic in Poland · plague · 2020
- 2020–2021 women's strike protests in Poland · unrest · 2020 – 2021
- 2025 Russian drone incursion into Poland · battle · 2025
- Assassination of Paweł Adamowicz · atrocity · 2019
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 stood37 years
stood longer than 29% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held313,400 km²
held more ground at its peak than 66% 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 record12
has more rulers on record than 84% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 40 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, 1979 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1953, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q36 (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.