State · 1957 – present
Tunisia
A state of 1957 – present — 69 years, still standing in the Middle East and North Africa. It replaced French protectorate of Tunisia and followed Beylik of Tunis and Kingdom of Tunisia. The atlas records 17 things within it — wars and battles 2 · regime change 1 · unrest and atrocity 3 · famine and plague 1 · people 10. Its line of rulers holds 10 people, 9 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
- 69 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 10
- the President of Tunisia
- Most ground
- 151,700 km²
- in 1958
- Within it
- 17
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 3
- 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
- Beylik of Tunis · follows · 1705 – 1881
- Kingdom of Tunisia · follows · 1956 – 1957
- French protectorate of Tunisia · replaces · 1881 – 1956
Rulers
The line of President of Tunisia - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lamine Bey | 1956 – 1957 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Habib Bourguiba | 1957 – 1987 | 30 years | deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Zine El Abidine Ben Ali | 1987 – 2011 | 24 years | deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Fouad Mebazaa | 2011 – 2011 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Mohamed Ghannouchi | 2011 – 2011 | under a year | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Moncef Marzouki | 2011 – 2014 | 3 years | ending not on record | |
| Beji Caid Essebsi | 2014 – 2019 | 5 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | |
| Mohamed Ennaceur | 2019 – 2019 | under a year | ending not on record | |
| Kais Saied | 2019 – in office | in office since 2019 | still in office |
10 rulers, 9 with terms dated as terms, covering 1956 – 2019. Median reign 2 years. 3 of 8 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 Tunisia, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Tahar Ben Ammar | 1956 – 1956 |
| Habib Bourguiba | 1956 – 1957 |
| Bahi Ladgham | 1969 – 1970 |
| Hedi Amara Nouira | 1970 – 1980 |
| Mohamed Mzali | 1980 – 1986 |
| Rachid Sfar | 1986 – 1987 |
| Hédi Baccouche | 1987 – 1989 |
| Zine El Abidine Ben Ali | 1987 – 1987 |
| Hamed Karoui | 1989 – 1999 |
| Mohamed Ghannouchi | 1999 – 2011 |
| Beji Caid Essebsi | 2011 – 2011 |
| Hamadi Jebali | 2011 – 2013 |
| Ali Laarayedh | 2013 – 2014 |
| Mehdi Jomaa | 2014 – 2015 |
| Habib Essid | 2015 – 2016 |
| Youssef Chahed | 2016 – 2020 |
| Elyes Fakhfakh | 2020 – 2020 |
| Hichem Mechichi | 2020 – 2021 |
| Najla Bouden | 2021 – 2023 |
| Ahmed Hachani | 2023 – 2024 |
| Kamel Madouri | 2024 – 2025 |
| Sarra Zaafrani | 2025 – … |
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.
151,500 km² in 1967, 151,500 km² in 2017; at its largest 151,500 km² in 1967. 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.
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flag, to 1999Flag of Tunisia (1959–1999) · Public domain 
coat of arms, from 1956Coat of arms of Tunisia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · FXXX 
flag, from 1999Flag of Tunisia · 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 · 2 wars and battles · 2 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Zine El Abidine Ben Ali · ruler · 1936 – 2019
- Habib Bourguiba · ruler · 1903 – 2000
- Beji Caid Essebsi · ruler · 1926 – 2019
- Moncef Marzouki · ruler · 1945 – present
- Kais Saied · ruler · 1958 – present
- Mohamed Ghannouchi · ruler · 1941 – present
- Fouad Mebazaa · ruler · 1933 – 2025
- Mohamed Bouazizi · person · 1984 – 2011
and 6 more in the atlas.
2000 – 20993 rows · 2 risings, regime changes and massacres
- 2015 Sousse attacks · atrocity · 2015
- Bardo National Museum attack · atrocity · 2015
- COVID-19 pandemic in Tunisia · 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 stood69 years
stood longer than 39% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held151,700 km²
held more ground at its peak than 54% 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 median3 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 9% 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: 5 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, 1947 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1958, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q948 (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.