State · 1970 – present

The Gambia

A state of 1970 – present — 56 years, still standing in the Middle East and North Africa. It replaced The Gambia (1965–1970). The atlas records 5 things within it — wars and battles 1 · famine and plague 1 · people 3. 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: 56 years; and still standing
Rulers: 3; the President of the Gambia
Most ground: 11,300 km²; in 1971
Within it: 5; recorded rows
Symbols: 2; on record, with years

Map: The Gambia in 1971, its borders in gold among its neighbours — The Gambia in 1971, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 11,300 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

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

The Gambia (1965–1970) · replaces · 1965 – 1970

Rulers

The line of President of the Gambia - the office this state names as its head of state.

left alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source
Dawda Jawara	1970 – 1994	24 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Yahya Jammeh	1996 – 2017	21 years	ending not on record
Adama Barrow	2017 – in office	in office since 2017	still in office

3 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 1970 – 2017. Only 47 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 1 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”.

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.

11,300 km² in 1980, 11,300 km² in 2020; at its largest 11,300 km² in 1980. 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.

coat of arms, from 1964Coat of arms of The Gambia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original design by Nicholas Potin , vectorised by user:Fenn-O-maniC
flag, from 1965Flag of The Gambia · 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 – 19993 rows

Yahya Jammeh · ruler · 1965 – present
Adama Barrow · ruler · 1965 – present
Dawda Jawara · ruler · 1924 – 2019

2000 – 20992 rows · 1 wars and battles

COVID-19 pandemic in the Gambia · plague · 2020
ECOWAS military intervention in the Gambia · battle · 2017

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 stood56 years
stood longer than 36% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held11,300 km²
held more ground at its peak than 16% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
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.
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: 2 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.

in the articlelinked

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, 1960 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1971, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q1005 (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.