State · 1956 – present
Sudan
A state of 1956 – present — 70 years, still standing in the Middle East and North Africa. It replaced Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and Republic of Sudan. The atlas records 29 things within it — wars and battles 7 · regime change 3 · unrest and atrocity 6 · famine and plague 2 · natural disasters 2 · people 9. Its line of rulers holds 3 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
- 70 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 3
- the Chairman of the Transitional Military Council
- Most ground
- 2.49 million km²
- in 1963
- Within it
- 29
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 4
- 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
- Anglo-Egyptian Sudan · replaces · 1899 – 1956
- Republic of Sudan · replaces
Rulers
The line of Chairman of the Transitional Military Council - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Omar al-Bashir | 1989 – 2019 | 30 years | ending not on record | |
| Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf | 2019 – 2019 | under a year | ending not on record | |
| Abdel Fattah al-Burhan | 2019 – 2019 | under a year | ending not on record |
3 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 1989 – 2019. Only 30 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 2 of 2 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 Sudan, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Ibrahim Abboud | 1958 – 1964 |
| Sadiq al-Mahdi | 1966 – 1967 |
| Babiker Awadalla | 1969 – 1969 |
| Sadiq al-Mahdi | 1986 – 1989 |
| Omar al-Bashir | 1993 – 2002 |
| Bakri Hassan Saleh | 2017 – 2018 |
| Motazz Moussa | 2018 – 2018 |
| Abdalla Hamdok | 2019 – 2021 |
| Mohamed Tahir Ayala | 2019 – 2019 |
| Abdalla Hamdok | 2021 – 2022 |
| Osman Hussein | 2022 – … |
| Kamil Idris | 2025 – … |
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.
2.49 million km² in 1956, 1.87 million km² in 2016; at its largest 2.49 million km² in 1966. 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.
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flag, undatedFlag of Sudan (1956–1970) · Public domain .svg/120px-Emblem_of_Sudan_(1956%E2%80%931970).svg.png)
coat of arms, undatedEmblem of Sudan (1956–1970) · Public domain 
coat of arms, from 1969Emblem of Sudan · Public domain 
flag, from 1970Flag of 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.
1900 – 199911 rows · 1 wars and battles · 2 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Omar al-Bashir · ruler · 1944 – present
- Abdel Fattah al-Burhan · ruler · 1960 – present
- Abdalla Hamdok · politician · 1956 – present
- Hemedti · politician · 1974 – present
- Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf · ruler · 1956 – present
- Minni Minnawi · politician · 1968 – present
- Ahmed Haroun · politician · 1964 – present
- Abdul Wahid al-Nur · politician · 1968 – present
and 3 more in the atlas.
2000 – 209918 rows · 6 wars and battles · 7 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Sudanese civil war · unrest · 2023
- War in Darfur · war · 2003 – 2020
- 2021 Sudanese coup d'état · adverse regime change · 2021
- 2019 Sudanese coup d'état · adverse regime change · 2019
- COVID-19 pandemic in Sudan · plague · 2020
- El Fasher massacre · atrocity · 2025
- 2020 Sudan floods · disaster · 2020
- Sudanese conflict in South Kordofan and Blue Nile · war · 2011 – 2020
and 10 more in the atlas.
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 stood70 years
stood longer than 40% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held2,486,400 km²
held more ground at its peak than 93% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century2.0
had more wars on record per century than 97% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- Rulers on record3
has more rulers on record than 48% 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, 1946 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1963, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q1049 (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.