State · 1980 – present
Vanuatu
A state of 1980 – present — 46 years, still standing in the Americas and Oceania. It replaced New Hebrides. The atlas records 20 things within it — unrest and atrocity 1 · natural disasters 1 · people 18. Its line of rulers holds 18 people, 17 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
- 46 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 18
- the President of Vanuatu
- Most ground
- 16,900 km²
- in 1983
- Within it
- 20
- 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
- New Hebrides · replaces · 1907 – 1980
Rulers
The line of President of Vanuatu - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ati George Sokomanu | 1980 – 1984 | 4 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Fred Timakata | 1984 – 1984 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Ati George Sokomanu | 1984 – 1989 | 5 years | ending not on record | |
| Fred Timakata | 1989 – 1989 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Alfred Maseng | 1994 – 1994 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Jean-Marie Léyé | 1994 – 1999 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Edward Natapei | 1999 – 1999 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| John Bani | 1999 – 2004 | 5 years | ending not on record | |
| Josias Moli | 2004 – 2004 | under a year | ending not on record | |
| Alfred Maseng | 2004 – 2004 | under a year | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Roger Abiut | 2004 – 2004 | under a year | ending not on record | |
| Kalkot Mataskelekele | 2004 – 2009 | 5 years | ending not on record | |
| Maxime Carlot Korman | 2009 – 2009 | under a year | ending not on record | |
| Iolu Abil | 2009 – 2014 | 5 years | ending not on record | |
| Philip Boedoro | 2014 – 2014 | under a year | ending not on record | |
| Baldwin Lonsdale | 2014 – 2017 | 3 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | |
| Esmon Saimon | 2017 – 2017 | under a year | ending not on record | |
| Tallis Obed Moses | 2017 – 2022 | 5 years | ending not on record | |
| Seule Simeon | 2022 – 2022 | under a year | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Nikenike Vurobaravu | 2022 – in office | in office since 2022 | still in office |
18 rulers, 17 with terms dated as terms, covering 1980 – 2022. Only 42 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 0 of 19 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 1.00, limit 0.6). 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 Vanuatu, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Walter Lini | 1980 – 1991 |
| Donald Kalpokas | 1991 – 1991 |
| Maxime Carlot Korman | 1991 – 1995 |
| Serge Vohor | 1996 – 1998 |
| Maxime Carlot Korman | 1996 – 1996 |
| Donald Kalpokas | 1998 – 1999 |
| Barak Sopé | 1999 – 2001 |
| Ham Lini | 2004 – 2008 |
| Serge Vohor | 2004 – 2004 |
| Sato Kilman | 2010 – 2011 |
| Edward Natapei | 2011 – 2011 |
| Serge Vohor | 2011 – 2011 |
| Moana Carcasses Kalosil | 2013 – 2014 |
| Joe Natuman | 2014 – 2015 |
| Sato Kilman | 2015 – 2016 |
| Charlot Salwai | 2016 – 2020 |
| Bob Loughman | 2020 – 2022 |
| Ishmael Kalsakau | 2022 – 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.
16,900 km² in 1985, 16,900 km² in 2020; at its largest 16,900 km² in 1985. 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 1980Coat of arms of Vanuatu · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Sodacan 
flag, from 1980Flag of Vanuatu · 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 – 199918 rows · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Iolu Abil · ruler · 1942 – present
- Baldwin Lonsdale · ruler · 1948 – 2017
- Kalkot Mataskelekele · ruler · 1949 – present
- Nikenike Vurobaravu · ruler · 1951 – present
- Tallis Obed Moses · ruler · 1954 – present
- Edward Natapei · ruler · 1954 – 2015
- Ati George Sokomanu · ruler · 1936 – present
- John Bani · ruler · 1941 – present
and 10 more in the atlas.
2000 – 20992 rows
- 2024 Port Vila earthquake · disaster · 2024
- Alfred Maseng · ruler · 2000 – 2004
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 stood46 years
stood longer than 32% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held16,900 km²
held more ground at its peak than 19% 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 record18
has more rulers on record than 90% 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, 1970 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1983, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q686 (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.