State · 1975 – present
Suriname
A state of 1975 – present — 51 years, still standing in the Americas and Oceania. It replaced Suriname (Kingdom of the Netherlands). The atlas records 15 things within it — wars and battles 1 · regime change 1 · unrest and atrocity 2 · famine and plague 1 · people 10. Its line of rulers holds 10 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
- 51 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 10
- the President of Suriname
- Most ground
- 147,600 km²
- in 1976
- Within it
- 15
- 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
- Suriname (Kingdom of the Netherlands) · replaces · 1954 – 1975
Rulers
The line of President of Suriname - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johan Ferrier | 1975 – 1980 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Henk Chin A Sen | 1980 – 1982 | 2 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Fred Ramdat Misier | 1982 – 1988 | 6 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Ramsewak Shankar | 1988 – 1990 | 2 years | ending not on record | |
| Johan Kraag | 1990 – 1991 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Ronald Venetiaan | 1991 – 1996 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Jules Wijdenbosch | 1996 – 2000 | 4 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Ronald Venetiaan | 2000 – 2010 | 10 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Dési Bouterse | 2010 – 2020 | 10 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Chan Santokhi | 2020 – 2025 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Jennifer Geerlings-Simons | 2025 – in office | in office since 2025 | still in office |
10 rulers, 10 with terms dated as terms, covering 1975 – 2025. Median reign 5 years. 1 of 10 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”.
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.
147,600 km² in 1985, 147,600 km² in 2015; at its largest 147,600 km² in 1985. 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 1975Flag of Suriname · Public domain 
coat of arms, from 1975Coat of arms of Suriname · 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 – 199914 rows · 1 wars and battles · 3 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Dési Bouterse · ruler · 1945 – 2024
- Chan Santokhi · ruler · 1959 – present
- Ronald Venetiaan · ruler · 1936 – 2025
- Jennifer Geerlings-Simons · ruler · 1953 – present
- Johan Ferrier · ruler · 1910 – 2010
- Jules Wijdenbosch · ruler · 1941 – 2025
- Henk Chin A Sen · ruler · 1934 – 1999
- Fred Ramdat Misier · ruler · 1926 – 2004
and 6 more in the atlas.
2000 – 20991 row
- COVID-19 pandemic in Suriname · 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 stood51 years
stood longer than 34% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held147,600 km²
held more ground at its peak than 53% 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.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median5 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 18% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record10
has more rulers on record than 80% 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, 1965 – 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 Q730 (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.