State · 2011 – present
South Sudan
A state of 2011 – present — 15 years, still standing in sub-Saharan Africa. The atlas records 8 things within it — wars and battles 1 · unrest and atrocity 1 · famine and plague 3 · people 3. Its line of rulers holds 4 people, 1 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
- 15 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 4
- the President of South Sudan
- Most ground
- 618,800 km²
- in 2014
- Within it
- 8
- 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 President of South Sudan - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salva Kiir | 2011 – in office | in office since 2011 | still in office |
4 rulers, 1 with terms dated as terms, covering 2011 – 2011. 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.
618,800 km² in 2016, 618,800 km² in 2021. 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 2005Flag of South Sudan · Public domain 
coat of arms, from 2011Coat of arms of South Sudan · 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.
2000 – 20995 rows · 1 wars and battles · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- 2011 East Africa drought · famine · 2011 – 2012
- South Sudanese Civil War · war · 2013 – 2020
- COVID-19 pandemic in South Sudan · plague · 2020
- Food insecurity and famine in South Sudan · famine · 2017
- Bentiu massacre · atrocity · 2014
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 stood15 years
stood longer than 20% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held618,800 km²
held more ground at its peak than 77% 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 record4
has more rulers on record than 58% 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, 2001 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 2014, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q958 (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.