State · 1958 – 1984
Republic of Upper Volta
A state of 1958 – 1984 — 26 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It replaced French Upper Volta. It was replaced by Burkina Faso. The atlas records 1 thing within it — people 1. Its line of rulers holds 5 people.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 26 years
- 1958 – 1984
- Rulers
- 5
- the President of Upper Volta
- Within it
- 1
- recorded row
- 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
- French Upper Volta · replaces
After it
- Burkina Faso · replaced by · 1960 – present
Rulers
The line of President of Upper Volta.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maurice Yaméogo | 1960 – 1966 | 6 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Sangoulé Lamizana | 1966 – 1980 | 14 years | ending not on record | |
| Saye Zerbo | 1980 – 1982 | 2 years | ending not on record | |
| Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo | 1982 – 1983 | 1 year | ending not on record | |
| Thomas Sankara | 1983 – 1984 | 1 year | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article |
5 rulers, 5 with terms dated as terms, covering 1960 – 1984. Only 24 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 1 of 4 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 0.68, limit 0.6). A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Flags and arms, in order
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
coat of arms, undatedCoat of arms of Upper Volta · CC BY-SA 3.0 · AnonMoos (SVG file), based on files by User:F_l_a_n_k_e_r and User:Erlenmeyer 
flag, from 1959Flag of Upper Volta · 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 – 19991 row
- Maurice Yaméogo · ruler · 1921 – 1993
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 stood26 years
stood longer than 25% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- 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 record5
has more rulers on record than 64% 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 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, 1948 – 1994, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1971, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q797422 (CC0) · 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.