State · 1960 – present
Republic of the Congo
A state of 1960 – present — 66 years, still standing in sub-Saharan Africa. It replaced People's Republic of the Congo. The atlas records 10 things within it — wars and battles 1 · famine and plague 1 · people 8. Its line of rulers holds 8 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
- 66 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 8
- the President of the Republic of the Congo
- Most ground
- 347,400 km²
- in 1961
- Within it
- 10
- 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
- People's Republic of the Congo · replaces · 1969 – 1992
Rulers
The line of President of the Republic of the Congo - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fulbert Youlou | 1960 – 1963 | 3 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Alphonse Massamba-Débat | 1963 – 1968 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Augustin Poignet | 1968 – 1968 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Alfred Raoul | 1968 – 1969 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Marien Ngouabi | 1968 – 1977 | 9 years | killedWikidata's manner of death | |
| Joachim Yhombi-Opango | 1977 – 1979 | 2 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Pascal Lissouba | 1992 – 1997 | 5 years | deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Denis Sassou Nguesso | 1997 – in office | in office since 1997 | still in office |
8 rulers, 8 with terms dated as terms, covering 1960 – 1997. Only 37 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 6 of 7 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 0.82, 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 the Republic of the Congo, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Claude Antoine Dacosta | lived 1932 – 2007 |
| Ambroise Noumazalaye | lived 1933 – 2007 |
| Aloïse Moudileno Massengo | lived 1933 – 2020 |
| André Milongo | lived 1935 – 2007 |
| Stéphane Maurice Bongho-Nouarra | lived 1937 – 2007 |
| Louis Sylvain Goma | lived 1941 – … |
| Jacques Opangault | 1957 – 1958 |
| Fulbert Youlou | 1958 – 1959 |
| Pascal Lissouba | 1963 – 1966 |
| Alphonse Massamba-Débat | 1963 – 1963 |
| Alfred Raoul | 1968 – 1969 |
| Henri Lopès | 1973 – 1975 |
| Ange Édouard Poungui | 1984 – 1989 |
| Alphonse Poaty-Souchlaty | 1989 – 1990 |
| Joachim Yhombi-Opango | 1993 – 1996 |
| Charles David Ganao | 1996 – 1997 |
| Bernard Kolélas | 1997 – 1997 |
| Isidore Mvouba | 2005 – 2009 |
| Clément Mouamba | 2016 – 2021 |
| Anatole Collinet Makosso | 2021 – 2026 |
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.
347,400 km² in 1970, 347,400 km² in 2020; at its largest 347,400 km² in 1970. 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 1959Flag of the Republic of the Congo · Public domain 
coat of arms, from 1960Coat of arms of the Republic of the Congo · 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 – 19999 rows · 1 wars and battles
- Denis Sassou Nguesso · ruler · 1943 – present
- Pascal Lissouba · ruler · 1931 – 2020
- Marien Ngouabi · ruler · 1938 – 1977
- Fulbert Youlou · ruler · 1917 – 1972
- Alphonse Massamba-Débat · ruler · 1921 – 1977
- Joachim Yhombi-Opango · ruler · 1939 – 2020
- Alfred Raoul · ruler · 1938 – 1999
- Republic of the Congo Civil War · war · 1997 – 1999
and 1 more in the atlas.
2000 – 20991 row
- COVID-19 pandemic in the Republic of the Congo · 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 stood66 years
stood longer than 38% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held347,400 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.
- Rulers on record8
has more rulers on record than 76% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 2 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, 1950 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1961, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q971 (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.