State · 1975 – present
Timor-Leste
A state of 1975 – present — 51 years, still standing in East and Southeast Asia. It replaced Portuguese Timor and Timor Timur. The atlas records 8 things within it — wars and battles 1 · unrest and atrocity 1 · famine and plague 1 · people 5. Its line of rulers holds 6 people, 5 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
- 51 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 6
- the President of East Timor
- Most ground
- 18,600 km²
- in 2006
- 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.
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
- Portuguese Timor · replaces
- Timor Timur · replaces
Rulers
The line of President of East Timor - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Francisco Xavier do Amaral | 1975 – 1975 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Xanana Gusmão | 2002 – 2007 | 5 years | ending not on record | |
| José Ramos-Horta | 2007 – 2012 | 5 years | ending not on record | |
| Taur Matan Ruak | 2012 – 2017 | 5 years | ending not on record | |
| Francisco Guterres | 2017 – 2022 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| José Ramos-Horta | 2022 – in office | in office since 2022 | still in office |
6 rulers, 5 with terms dated as terms, covering 1975 – 2022. Only 47 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 0 of 5 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 East Timor, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Mari Alkatiri | 2002 – 2006 |
| José Ramos-Horta | 2006 – 2007 |
| Xanana Gusmão | 2007 – 2015 |
| Estanislau da Silva | 2007 – 2007 |
| Rui Maria de Araújo | 2015 – 2017 |
| Mari Alkatiri | 2017 – 2018 |
| Taur Matan Ruak | 2018 – 2023 |
| Xanana Gusmão | 2023 – … |
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.
18,600 km² in 2015. 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 East Timor · Public domain 
coat of arms, from 2007Coat of arms of East Timor · 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 – 19997 rows · 1 wars and battles · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- José Ramos-Horta · ruler · 1949 – present
- Xanana Gusmão · ruler · 1946 – present
- Taur Matan Ruak · ruler · 1956 – present
- Francisco Xavier do Amaral · ruler · 1937 – 2012
- Indonesian invasion of East Timor · war · 1975 – 1979
- Nicolau Lobato · ruler · 1946 – 1978
- Santa Cruz massacre · atrocity · 1991
2000 – 20991 row
- COVID-19 pandemic in Timor-Leste · 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 held18,600 km²
held more ground at its peak than 20% 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 record6
has more rulers on record than 69% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 3 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, 1965 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 2006, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q574 (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.