State · 1870 – present
Qatar
A state of 1870 – present — 156 years, still standing in the Middle East and North Africa. The atlas records 12 things within it — wars and battles 1 · famine and plague 1 · treaties 1 · people 9. Its line of rulers holds 10 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
- 156 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 10
- the Emir of the State of Qatar
- Most ground
- 308,400 km²
- in 1947
- Within it
- 12
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 2
- on record, with years
1856 · first mapped · 13,500 km²
1947 · at its largest · 308,400 km²
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.
Rulers
The line of Emir of the State of Qatar - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mohammed bin Thani | 1851 – 1878 | 27 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani | 1878 – 1913 | 35 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | child |
| Ahmed bin Muhammed Al Thani | 1898 – 1905 | 7 years | killedWikidata's manner of death | sibling |
| Mohammed bin Jassim Al Thani | 1913 – 1914 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani | 1914 – 1949 | 35 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | sibling |
| Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani | 1949 – 1960 | 11 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | child |
| Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani | 1960 – 1972 | 12 years | deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | child |
| Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani | 1972 – 1995 | 23 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani | 1995 – 2013 | 18 years | served out the term, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | child |
| Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani | 2013 – in office | in office since 2013 | still in office | child |
10 rulers, 10 with terms dated as terms, covering 1851 – 2013. Median reign 18 years. 4 of 9 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 Qatar, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani | 1970 – 1995 |
| Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani | 1995 – 1996 |
| Abdullah bin Khalifa Al Thani | 1996 – 2007 |
| Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani | 2007 – 2013 |
| Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani | 2013 – 2020 |
| Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdul Aziz Al Thani | 2020 – 2023 |
| Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani | 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.
13,500 km² in 1870, 12,800 km² in 2020; at its largest 308,400 km² in 1950. 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 Qatar · Public domain 
coat of arms, from 2022Emblem of Qatar-2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 9BBWMJ
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.
1800 – 18994 rows
- Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani · ruler · 1855 – 1957
- Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani · ruler · 1821 – 1913
- Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani · ruler · 1892 – 1974
- Mohammed bin Jassim Al Thani · ruler · 1881 – 1971
1900 – 19995 rows
- Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani · ruler · 1980 – present
- Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani · ruler · 1952 – present
- Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani · ruler · 1932 – 2016
- Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani · politician · 1980 – present
- Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani · ruler · 1920 – 1977
2000 – 20993 rows · 1 wars and battles
- United States–Taliban deal · treaty · 2020
- Israeli attack on Doha · battle · 2025
- COVID-19 pandemic in Qatar · plague · 2020
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 stood156 years
stood longer than 56% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held308,400 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.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median18 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 56% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record10
has more rulers on record than 80% 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, 1854 – 2042, 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 Q846 (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.