State · 1912 – 1971
Republic of China
A state of 1912 – 1971 — 59 years in East and Southeast Asia. It replaced Qing dynasty, Manchukuo and Chinese Empire and 1 more. It was replaced by People's Republic of China, Taiwan and Mongolian People's Republic and 2 more. The atlas records 92 things within it — wars and battles 45 · regime change 3 · unrest and atrocity 17 · famine and plague 1 · natural disasters 3 · treaties 1 · people 22. Its line of rulers holds 9 people, 8 with dated terms.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 59 years
- 1912 – 1971
- Rulers
- 9
- the Great President of the Republic of China
- Most ground
- 8.44 million km²
- in 1912
- Within it
- 92
- 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
- Chinese Empire · replaces · 220 BCE – 1912 CE
- Manchukuo · replaces · 1932 – 1945
- Qing dynasty · replaces · 1616 – 1912
- Empire of China · replaces · 1915 – 1916
After it
- Tannu Uriankhai · replaced by
- People's Republic of China · replaced by · 1949 – present
- Kingdom Shunzheng · replaced by
- Mongolian People's Republic · replaced by · 1924 – 1992
- Taiwan · replaced by · 1912 – present
Rulers
The line of Great President of the Republic of China.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lu Zhengxiang | 1912 – 1912 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Tang Shaoyi | 1912 – 1912 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Sun Yat-sen | 1912 – 1912 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Zhao Bingjun | 1912 – 1913 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Yuan Shikai | 1912 – 1915 | 3 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Duan Qirui | 1913 – 1913 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Yuan Shikai | 1916 – 1916 | under a year | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | |
| Chiang Kai-shek | 1928 – 1931 | 3 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Chiang Kai-shek | 1943 – 1948 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Chen Gongbo | 1944 – 1945 | 1 year | executedWikidata's manner of death |
9 rulers, 8 with terms dated as terms, covering 1912 – 1948. Only 36 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 3 of 9 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 0.70, 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.
8.44 million km² in 1912, 4.19 million km² in 1942; at its largest 8.44 million km² in 1912. 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, undatedFlags of the Republic of China · Public domain 
coat of arms, undatedEmblems of the Republic of China · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Elevatorrailfan
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 – 199984 rows · 45 wars and battles · 20 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Tu Youyou · inventor · 1930 – present
- Second Sino-Japanese War · war · 1937 – 1945
- Chinese Civil War · war · 1927 – 1950
- Nanjing Massacre · atrocity · 1937 – 1938
- Long March · battle · 1934 – 1935
- Zhao Ziyang · politician · 1919 – 2005
- Jiang Qing · politician · 1914 – 1991
- Li Peng · politician · 1928 – 2019
and 76 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 stood59 years
stood longer than 37% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held8,438,000 km²
held more ground at its peak than 98% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century11.0
had more wars on record per century than 100% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- Rulers on record9
has more rulers on record than 78% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 49 causes the record names and 4 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, 1902 – 1981, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1912, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q13426199 (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.