State · 1962 – present
Samoa
A state of 1962 – present — 64 years, still standing in the Americas and Oceania. The atlas records 6 things within it — famine and plague 1 · natural disasters 1 · people 4. Its line of rulers holds 4 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
- 64 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 4
- the O le Ao o le Malo
- Within it
- 6
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 2
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.
Rulers
The line of O le Ao o le Malo - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malietoa Tanumafili II | 1962 – 2007 | 45 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi | 1998 – in office | in office since 1998 | still in office | |
| Tui Ātua Tupua Tamasese Efi | 2007 – 2017 | 10 years | ending not on record | |
| Tuimalealiʻifano Vaʻaletoʻa Sualauvi II | 2017 – in office | in office since 2017 | still in office |
4 rulers, 4 with terms dated as terms, covering 1962 – 2017. Median reign 27.5 years. 1 of 3 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. 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 Samoa, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II | 1959 – 1970 |
| Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II | 1973 – 1975 |
| Tofilau Eti Alesana | 1988 – 1998 |
| Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi | 1998 – 2021 |
| Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa | 2021 – 2025 |
| Laauli Leuatea Polataivao | 2025 – … |
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 1949Flag of Samoa · Public domain 
coat of arms, from 1962Public Seal of Samoa · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Simitukidia
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 – 19994 rows
- Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi · ruler · 1945 – present
- Malietoa Tanumafili II · ruler · 1913 – 2007
- Tui Ātua Tupua Tamasese Efi · ruler · 1938 – present
- Tuimalealiʻifano Vaʻaletoʻa Sualauvi II · ruler · 1947 – present
2000 – 20992 rows
- 2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami · disaster · 2009
- 2019 Samoa measles outbreak · plague · 2019
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.
- 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 median45 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 93% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record4
has more rulers on record than 58% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1952 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1994, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q683 (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.