State · 1902 – 1959
Republic of Cuba
A state of 1902 – 1959 — 57 years in the Americas and Oceania. It replaced United States Protectorate over Cuba. It was replaced by Cuba. The atlas records 27 things within it — wars and battles 2 · unrest and atrocity 1 · people 24. Its line of rulers holds 24 people, 12 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
- 57 years
- 1902 – 1959
- Rulers
- 24
- the President of Cuba
- Most ground
- 124,200 km²
- in 1926
- Within it
- 27
- 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
- United States Protectorate over Cuba · replaces
After it
- Cuba · replaced by · 1959 – present
Rulers
The line of President of Cuba.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tomás Estrada Palma | 1902 – 1906 | 4 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| José Miguel Gómez | 1909 – 1913 | 4 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Mario García Menocal | 1913 – 1921 | 8 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso | 1921 – 1925 | 4 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Gerardo Machado | 1925 – 1933 | 8 years | deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada | 1933 – 1933 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Miguel Mariano Gómez | 1936 – 1936 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Carlos Prío Socarrás | 1948 – 1952 | 4 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Fulgencio Batista | 1952 – 1959 | 7 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Carlos Manuel Piedra | 1959 – 1959 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Manuel Urrutia Lleó | 1959 – 1959 | under a year | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado | 1959 – 1976 | 17 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone |
24 rulers, 12 with terms dated as terms, covering 1902 – 1976. Median reign 4 years. 2 of 11 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 0.67, 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 Cuba, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Carlos Saladrigas Zayas | 1940 – 1942 |
| Ramón Zaydín | 1942 – 1944 |
| Félix Lancís Sánchez | 1944 – 1945 |
| Carlos Prío Socarrás | 1945 – 1947 |
| Raúl López del Castillo | 1947 – 1948 |
| Manuel Antonio de Varona | 1948 – 1950 |
| Félix Lancís Sánchez | 1950 – 1951 |
| Jorge García Montes | 1955 – 1957 |
| Emilio Núñez Portuondo | 1958 – 1958 |
| Gonzalo Güell | 1958 – 1959 |
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.
121,200 km² in 1912, 121,100 km² in 1959; at its largest 124,200 km² in 1932. 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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coat of arms, undatedCoat of arms of Cuba (1902-1959) · Public domain 
flag, undatedFlag of Cuba · 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 – 199913 rows · 2 wars and battles · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Fulgencio Batista · ruler · 1901 – 1973
- Cuban Revolution · unrest · 1953 – 1959
- Alberto Korda · artist · 1928 – 2001
- Vilma Espín · politician · 1930 – 2007
- Carlos Prío Socarrás · ruler · 1903 – 1977
- Battle of Santa Clara · battle · 1958 – 1959
- Arnaldo Ochoa · politician · 1940 – 1989
- Ramón Castro Ruz · politician · 1924 – 2016
and 5 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 stood57 years
stood longer than 36% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held124,200 km²
held more ground at its peak than 50% 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 median4 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 13% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record24
has more rulers on record than 93% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 9 causes the record names and 1 result, 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, 1892 – 1969, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1926, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q14905932 (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.