State · 1976 – present

Seychelles

A state of 1976 – present — 50 years, still standing in sub-Saharan Africa. The atlas records 8 things within it — unrest and atrocity 1 · famine and plague 1 · people 6. Its line of rulers holds 6 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: 50 years; and still standing
Rulers: 6; the President of Seychelles
Most ground: 300 km²; in 1976
Within it: 8; recorded rows
Symbols: 5; on record, with years

Map: Seychelles in 1976, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Seychelles in 1976, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 300 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

Rulers

The line of President of Seychelles - the office this state names as its head of state.

deposed, abdicated, exiled or removedleft alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source
James Mancham	1976 – 1977	1 year	deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
France-Albert René	1977 – 2004	27 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
James Michel	2004 – 2016	12 years	ending not on record
Danny Faure	2016 – 2020	4 years	lost an election, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Wavel Ramkalawan	2020 – in office	in office since 2020	still in office
Patrick Herminie	2025 – in office	in office since 2025	still in office

6 rulers, 6 with terms dated as terms, covering 1976 – 2025. Only 49 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 1 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 0.60, limit 0.6). A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

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.

300 km² in 1976, 300 km² in 2021; at its largest 300 km² in 1976. 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, 1961 – 1976Flag of Seychelles (1961–1976) · CC0
flag, 1976 – 1977Flag of Seychelles (1976–1977) · Public domain
coat of arms, from 1976Coat of arms of Seychelles · Public domain
flag, 1977 – 1996Flag of Seychelles (1977–1996) · Public domain
flag, from 1996Flag of Seychelles · 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 – 19997 rows · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres

James Michel · ruler · 1944 – present
France-Albert René · ruler · 1935 – 2019
Danny Faure · ruler · 1962 – present
Wavel Ramkalawan · ruler · 1961 – present
James Mancham · ruler · 1939 – 2017
Patrick Herminie · ruler · 1963 – present
1981 Seychelles coup attempt · unrest · 1981

2000 – 20991 row

COVID-19 pandemic in Seychelles · 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 stood50 years
stood longer than 34% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held300 km²
held more ground at its peak than 1% 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.
Rulers on record6
has more rulers on record than 69% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1966 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1976, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q1042 (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.