State · 1958 – 1971
United Arab Republic
A state of 1958 – 1971 — 13 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It replaced Second Syrian Republic and Republic of Egypt. It was replaced by Egypt and Syria. The atlas records 14 things within it — wars and battles 1 · regime change 1 · people 12. Its line of rulers holds 3 people, 2 with dated terms.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 13 years
- 1958 – 1971
- Rulers
- 3
- the head of state
- Most ground
- 1.20 million km²
- in 1958
- Within it
- 14
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 2
- 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
- Second Syrian Republic · replaces · 1930 – 1958
- Republic of Egypt · replaces · 1956 – 1958
Rulers
The line of head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sami Sharaf | 1961 – 1971 | 10 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Anwar Sadat | 1970 – 1970 | under a year | ending not on record |
3 rulers, 2 with terms dated as terms, covering 1961 – 1971. Only 10 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 1 of 1 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 0.64, limit 0.6). 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.
1.20 million km² in 1958, 951,900 km² in 1971; at its largest 1.20 million km² in 1958. 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, undatedFlag of the United Arab Republic (1958–1971), Flag of Syria (1980–2024) · Public domain .svg/120px-Coat_of_arms_of_the_United_Arab_Republic_(1958%E2%80%931971).svg.png)
coat of arms, undatedCoat of arms of the United Arab Republic (1958–1971) · 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 · 1 wars and battles · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Gamal Abdel Nasser · ruler · 1918 – 1970
- Ismail Haniyeh · politician · 1963 – 2024
- Yahya Sinwar · politician · 1962 – 2024
- Mohammed Deif · commander · 1965 – 2024
- Khalil al-Hayya · politician · 1960 – present
- Ahmed Jabari · commander · 1960 – 2012
- Marwan Issa · commander · 1965 – 2024
- Hadiya Khalaf Abbas · politician · 1958 – 2021
and 6 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 stood13 years
stood longer than 19% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held1,200,800 km²
held more ground at its peak than 86% 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: 6 causes the record names and 2 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.
Theories that apply to its ending
Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.
Demographic-structural breakdown
Goldstone 1991 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009
Applies by its own logic: 2 of its 3 conditions held here (it needs 2), and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — unrest, adverse regime change or the state's ending.
- overlapping reigns — rival claimants — within 20 y, or 3 or more changes of ruler within 20 y, or 2 or more reigns of two years or less within 20 y, or a monarch deposed or killed within 20 y — rivalClaimants -1
- a war the state is fighting, still under way, or a war the state fought, ended within 10 y — warEnded
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1948 – 1981, 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 Q170468 (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.