State · 1962 – present
Rwanda
A state of 1962 – present — 64 years, still standing in sub-Saharan Africa. The atlas records 11 things within it — wars and battles 2 · regime change 1 · unrest and atrocity 1 · famine and plague 1 · treaties 1 · people 5. Its line of rulers holds 7 people, 6 with dated terms.
- 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
- 64 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 7
- the President of Rwanda
- Most ground
- 25,700 km²
- in 1963
- Within it
- 11
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 4
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.
Rulers
The line of President of Rwanda - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dominique Mbonyumutwa | 1961 – 1961 | under a year | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Grégoire Kayibanda | 1961 – 1973 | 12 years | deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Juvénal Habyarimana | 1973 – 1994 | 21 years | killedWikidata's manner of death | |
| Théodore Sindikubwabo | 1994 – 1994 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Pasteur Bizimungu | 1994 – 2000 | 6 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Paul Kagame | 2000 – in office | in office since 2000 | still in office |
7 rulers, 6 with terms dated as terms, covering 1961 – 2000. Only 39 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 3 of 5 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”.
Heads of government
The line of Prime Minister of Rwanda, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Grégoire Kayibanda | 1960 – 1962 |
| Sylvestre Nsanzimana | 1991 – 1992 |
| Dismas Nsengiyaremye | 1992 – 1993 |
| Agathe Uwilingiyimana | 1993 – 1994 |
| Jean Kambanda | 1994 – 1994 |
| Faustin Twagiramungu | 1994 – 1995 |
| Pierre-Célestin Rwigema | 1995 – 2000 |
| Bernard Makuza | 2000 – 2011 |
| Pierre Habumuremyi | 2011 – 2014 |
| Anastase Murekezi | 2014 – 2017 |
| Édouard Ngirente | 2017 – 2025 |
| Justin Nsengiyumva | 2025 – … |
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.
25,700 km² in 1972, 25,700 km² in 2022; at its largest 25,700 km² in 1972. 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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flag, 1961 – 2001Flag of Rwanda (1961–2001) · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_Rwanda_(January_%E2%80%93_September_1961).svg.png)
flag, 1961 – 1961Flag of Rwanda (January – September 1961) · Public domain 
flag, from 2001Flag of Rwanda · Public domain 
coat of arms, from 2003Coat of arms of Rwanda · 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 – 19998 rows · 1 wars and battles · 2 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Paul Kagame · ruler · 1957 – present
- Rwandan genocide · atrocity · 1994
- Juvénal Habyarimana · ruler · 1937 – 1994
- Rwandan Civil War · war · 1990 – 1993
- Pasteur Bizimungu · ruler · 1950 – present
- Théodore Sindikubwabo · ruler · 1928 – 1998
- Emmanuel Bushayija · ruler · 1960 – present
- 1973 Rwandan coup d'état · adverse regime change · 1973
2000 – 20993 rows · 1 wars and battles
- COVID-19 pandemic in Rwanda · plague · 2020
- African Continental Free Trade Agreement · treaty · 2018
- 2025 Bukavu offensive · battle · 2025
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 stood64 years
stood longer than 38% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held25,700 km²
held more ground at its peak than 25% 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 record7
has more rulers on record than 73% 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, 1952 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1963, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q1037 (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.