State · 1912 – present
Taiwan
A state of 1912 – present — 114 years, still standing in East and Southeast Asia. It replaced Qing dynasty, Republic of China and Taiwan under Japanese rule. The atlas records 51 things within it — wars and battles 7 · unrest and atrocity 6 · famine and plague 1 · natural disasters 7 · people 30. Its line of rulers holds 29 people, 28 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
- 114 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 29
- the President of the Republic of China
- Within it
- 51
- 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
- Republic of China · replaces · 1912 – 1971
- Taiwan under Japanese rule · replaces
- Qing dynasty · replaces · 1616 – 1912
Rulers
The line of President of the Republic of China - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun Yat-sen | 1912 – 1912 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Yuan Shikai | 1912 – 1916 | 4 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | |
| Li Yuanhong | 1916 – 1917 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Feng Guozhang | 1917 – 1918 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Xu Shichang | 1918 – 1922 | 4 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Zhou Ziqi | 1922 – 1922 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Li Yuanhong | 1922 – 1923 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Gao Lingwei | 1923 – 1923 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Cao Kun | 1923 – 1924 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Huang Fu | 1924 – 1924 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Duan Qirui | 1924 – 1926 | 2 years | deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Yan Huiqing | 1926 – 1926 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Hu Weide | 1926 – 1926 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Du Xigui | 1926 – 1926 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Wellington Koo | 1926 – 1927 | 1 year | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Zhang Zuolin | 1927 – 1928 | 1 year | killedWikidata's manner of death | |
| Tan Yankai | 1928 – 1928 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Lin Sen | 1931 – 1943 | 12 years | died by accidentWikidata's manner of death | |
| Wang Jingwei | 1940 – 1944 | 4 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | |
| Chiang Kai-shek | 1948 – 1949 | 1 year | resignedWikidata's end cause on the term | |
| Li Zongren | 1949 – 1950 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Yan Xishan | 1949 – 1950 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Chiang Kai-shek | 1950 – 1975 | 25 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | |
| Yen Chia-kan | 1975 – 1978 | 3 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Chiang Ching-kuo | 1978 – 1988 | 10 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | |
| Lee Teng-hui | 1988 – 2000 | 12 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Chen Shui-bian | 2000 – 2008 | 8 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Ma Ying-jeou | 2008 – 2016 | 8 years | ending not on record | |
| Tsai Ing-wen | 2016 – 2024 | 8 years | ending not on record | |
| Lai Ching-te | 2024 – in office | in office since 2024 | still in office |
29 rulers, 28 with terms dated as terms, covering 1912 – 2024. Median reign 1 years. 4 of 29 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 0.77, 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 Premier of the Republic of China, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Sun Fo | lived 1891 – 1973 |
| Xiong Xiling | 1913 – 1914 |
| Xu Shichang | 1914 – 1915 |
| Li Jingxi | 1917 – 1917 |
| Wang Zhengting | 1922 – 1923 |
| Wellington Koo | 1926 – 1927 |
| Tan Yankai | 1928 – 1930 |
| Chiang Kai-shek | 1930 – 1931 |
| Wang Jingwei | 1932 – 1935 |
| Chiang Kai-shek | 1935 – 1938 |
| H. H. Kung | 1938 – 1939 |
| Chiang Kai-shek | 1939 – 1945 |
| T. V. Soong | 1945 – 1947 |
| Chiang Kai-shek | 1947 – 1947 |
| Zhang Qun | 1947 – 1948 |
| Weng Wenhao | 1948 – 1948 |
| Sun Fo | 1948 – 1949 |
| Yan Xishan | 1949 – 1950 |
| He Yingqin | 1949 – 1949 |
| Chen Cheng | 1950 – 1954 |
| Yu Hung-chun | 1954 – 1958 |
| Chen Cheng | 1958 – 1963 |
| Yen Chia-kan | 1963 – 1972 |
| Chen Cheng | 1963 – 1963 |
| Wang Yun-wu | 1963 – 1963 |
| Chiang Ching-kuo | 1972 – 1978 |
| Sun Yun-suan | 1978 – 1984 |
| Hsu Ching-chung | 1978 – 1978 |
| Yu Kuo-hwa | 1984 – 1989 |
| Lee Huan | 1989 – 1990 |
| Hau Pei-tsun | 1990 – 1993 |
| Lien Chan | 1993 – 1997 |
| Vincent Siew | 1997 – 2000 |
| Chang Chun-hsiung | 2000 – 2002 |
| Tang Fei | 2000 – 2000 |
| Yu Shyi-kun | 2002 – 2005 |
| Frank Hsieh | 2005 – 2006 |
| Su Tseng-chang | 2006 – 2007 |
| Chang Chun-hsiung | 2007 – 2008 |
| Liu Chao-shiuan | 2008 – 2009 |
| Wu Den-yih | 2009 – 2012 |
| Sean Chen | 2012 – 2013 |
| Jiang Yi-huah | 2013 – 2014 |
| Mao Chi-kuo | 2014 – 2016 |
| Simon Chang | 2016 – 2016 |
| Lin Chuan | 2016 – 2017 |
| Lai Ching-te | 2017 – 2019 |
| Su Tseng-chang | 2019 – 2023 |
| Chen Chien-jen | 2023 – … |
| Cho Jung-tai | 2024 – … |
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, 1912 – 1928Flag of China (1912–1928) · Public domain 
coat of arms, 1913 – 1928Twelve Symbols national emblem of China · Public domain 
coat of arms, from 1928National Emblem of the Republic of China · Public domain 
flag, from 1928Flag of the Republic of China · 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 – 199922 rows · 6 wars and battles · 4 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Tsai Ing-wen · ruler · 1956 – present
- Ang Lee · writer · 1954 – present
- Ma Ying-jeou · ruler · 1950 – present
- Lai Ching-te · ruler · 1959 – present
- Chen Shui-bian · ruler · 1950 – present
- Lee Teng-hui · ruler · 1923 – 2020
- Chiang Ching-kuo · ruler · 1910 – 1988
- Battle of the Philippine Sea · battle · 1944
and 14 more in the atlas.
2000 – 209910 rows · 1 wars and battles · 2 risings, regime changes and massacres
- 2024 Hualien earthquake · disaster · 2024
- 2016 southern Taiwan earthquake · disaster · 2016
- COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan · plague · 2020
- 2018 Hualien earthquake · disaster · 2018
- Sunflower Student Movement · unrest · 2014
- 2006 Hengchun earthquakes · disaster · 2006
- 2010 Kaohsiung earthquake · disaster · 2010
- 2022 Chinese military exercises around Taiwan · battle · 2022
and 2 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 stood114 years
stood longer than 50% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- Wars recorded per century0.9
had more wars on record per century than 92% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median1 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 2% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record29
has more rulers on record than 94% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 22 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, 1901 – 2037, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1969, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q865 (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.