State · 1965 – present
Singapore
A state of 1965 – present — 61 years, still standing in East and Southeast Asia. It replaced Singapore in Federation of Malaysia. The atlas records 16 things within it — unrest and atrocity 2 · famine and plague 1 · treaties 2 · people 11. Its line of rulers holds 11 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
- 61 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 11
- the President of Singapore
- Most ground
- 500 km²
- in 1967
- Within it
- 16
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 2
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.
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
- Singapore in Federation of Malaysia · replaces
Rulers
The line of President of Singapore - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yusof Ishak | 1965 – 1970 | 5 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | |
| Punch Coomaraswamy | 1968 – 1968 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Yeoh Ghim Seng | 1970 – 1971 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Benjamin Sheares | 1971 – 1981 | 10 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | |
| Yeoh Ghim Seng | 1981 – 1981 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Devan Nair | 1981 – 1985 | 4 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Yeoh Ghim Seng | 1985 – 1985 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Wee Kim Wee | 1985 – 1993 | 8 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Ong Teng Cheong | 1993 – 1999 | 6 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| S. R. Nathan | 1999 – 2011 | 12 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Tony Tan | 2011 – 2017 | 6 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Halimah Yacob | 2017 – 2023 | 6 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Tharman Shanmugaratnam | 2023 – in office | in office since 2023 | still in office |
11 rulers, 11 with terms dated as terms, covering 1965 – 2023. Median reign 5.5 years. 1 of 12 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 0.90, 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 Singapore, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Lee Kuan Yew | 1959 – 1990 |
| Goh Chok Tong | 1990 – 2004 |
| Lee Hsien Loong | 2004 – 2024 |
| Lawrence Wong | 2024 – … |
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.
500 km² in 1975, 500 km² in 2015; at its largest 500 km² in 1975. 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 Singapore · Public domain 
coat of arms, from 1959Coat of arms of Singapore · CC BY-SA 3.0
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 – 199912 rows · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Halimah Yacob · ruler · 1954 – present
- Tony Tan · ruler · 1940 – present
- Tharman Shanmugaratnam · ruler · 1957 – present
- Lawrence Wong · politician · 1972 – present
- S. R. Nathan · ruler · 1924 – 2016
- Yusof Ishak · ruler · 1910 – 1970
- Devan Nair · ruler · 1923 – 2005
- Wee Kim Wee · ruler · 1915 – 2005
and 4 more in the atlas.
2000 – 20994 rows · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore · plague · 2020
- ASEAN Charter · treaty · 2007
- Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks · treaty · 2006
- 2013 Little India riot · unrest · 2013
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 stood61 years
stood longer than 37% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held500 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.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median6 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 22% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record11
has more rulers on record than 83% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 6 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, 1955 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1967, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q334 (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.