State · 1970 – present
Tonga
A state of 1970 – present — 56 years, still standing in the Americas and Oceania. It followed British Tonga. The atlas records 6 things within it — unrest and atrocity 1 · famine and plague 1 · natural disasters 2 · people 2. Its line of rulers holds 33 people, 4 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
- 56 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 33
- the Monarch of Tonga
- Within it
- 6
- 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
- British Tonga · follows
Rulers
The line of Monarch of Tonga - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sālote Tupou III | 1918 – 1965 | 47 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV | 1965 – 2006 | 41 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | child |
| George Tupou V | 2006 – 2012 | 6 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | child |
| Tupou VI | 2012 – in office | in office since 2012 | still in office | sibling |
33 rulers, 4 with terms dated as terms, covering 1918 – 2012. Median reign 41 years. 1 of 3 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 Tonga, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV | 1949 – 1965 |
| Tu'i Pelehake | 1965 – 1991 |
| Baron Vaea | 1991 – 2000 |
| Tupou VI | 2000 – 2006 |
| Feleti Sevele | 2006 – 2010 |
| Tu'ivakano | 2010 – 2014 |
| Akilisi Pōhiva | 2014 – 2019 |
| Pōhiva Tu'i'onetoa | 2019 – 2021 |
| Sēmisi Sika | 2019 – 2019 |
| Hu'akavameiliku | 2021 – 2024 |
| Fatafehi Fakafānua, 8th Lord Fakafānua | 2025 – … |
| 'Aisake Eke | 2025 – 2025 |
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 1875Coat of arms of Tonga · Public domain 
flag, from 1875Flag of Tonga · 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 – 19992 rows
- Tupou VI · ruler · 1959 – present
- George Tupou V · ruler · 1948 – 2012
2000 – 20994 rows · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- 2006 Tonga earthquake · disaster · 2006
- COVID-19 pandemic in Tonga · plague · 2021
- 2006 Nukuʻalofa riots · unrest · 2006
- 2009 Tonga earthquake · disaster · 2009
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.
- 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.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median41 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 92% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record33
has more rulers on record than 95% 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, 1960 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1998, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q678 (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.