State · 1962 – 1988

Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma

A state of 1962 – 1988 — 26 years in East and Southeast Asia. It followed Union of Burma. It was followed by Myanmar and Burma/Myanmar under the State Peace and Development Council. The atlas records 2 things within it — people 2. Its line of rulers holds 6 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; 1962 – 1988
Rulers: 6; the President of Myanmar
Within it: 2; recorded rows
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

Union of Burma · follows

After it

Burma/Myanmar under the State Peace and Development Council · followed by
Myanmar · followed by · 1988 – present

Rulers

The line of President of Myanmar.

deposed, abdicated, exiled or removedleft alive by a regular roadending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source
Ba U	1952 – 1957	5 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Win Maung	1957 – 1962	5 years	exiled, imprisoned or confined, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Ne Win	1974 – 1981	7 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
San Yu	1981 – 1988	7 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Maung Maung	1988 – 1988	under a year	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Than Shwe	1992 – 2011	19 years	ending not on record

6 rulers, 6 with terms dated as terms, covering 1952 – 2011. Median reign 6 years. 1 of 5 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”.

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, undatedFlag of Myanmar (1974–2010) · Public domain
coat of arms, undatedState Seal of Myanmar (1974-1988) · 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 – 19992 rows

Ne Win · ruler · 1911 – 2002
San Yu · ruler · 1918 – 1996

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.
How long a reign lasted, at the median7 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 26% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record6
has more rulers on record than 69% 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 2 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.

linked

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 – 1998, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1975, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q13072974 (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.