Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 1999 – present

Venezuela

A state of 1999 – present — 27 years, still standing in the Americas and Oceania. It replaced Gran Colombia and Republic of Venezuela. The atlas records 22 things within it — wars and battles 4 · unrest and atrocity 8 · famine and plague 2 · natural disasters 1 · people 7. 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
27 years
and still standing
Rulers
10
the President of Venezuela
Most ground
941,200 km²
in 2000
Within it
22
recorded rows
Symbols
13
on record, with years
Map: Venezuela in 2000, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Venezuela in 2000, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 941,200 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Gran Colombia: 1819 – 1831Republic of Venezuela: 1953 – 1999Venezuela: 1999 – 2026

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

Rulers

The line of President of Venezuela - the office this state names as its head of state.

Octavio Lepage · 1993 – 1994 · left office aliveRamón José Velásquez · 1993 – 1994 · left office aliveRafael Caldera · 1994 – 1999 · left office aliveHugo Chávez · 1999 – 2013 · died in office of natural causesDiosdado Cabello · 2002 – 2002 · no death date to read the end againstPedro Carmona · 2002 – 2002 · no death date to read the end againstNicolás Maduro · 2013 – 2026 · no death date to read the end againstJuan Guaidó · 2019 – 2023 · no death date to read the end againstDelcy Rodríguez · 2026 – … · still in office200020052010201520202025
died in officeleft alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Octavio Lepage1993 – 19941 yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Ramón José Velásquez1993 – 19941 yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Rafael Caldera1994 – 19995 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Hugo Chávez1999 – 201314 yearsdied in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death
Diosdado Cabello2002 – 2002under a yearending not on record
Pedro Carmona2002 – 2002under a yearending not on record
Nicolás Maduro2013 – 202613 yearsending not on record
Juan Guaidó2019 – 20234 yearsending not on record
Delcy Rodríguez2026 – in officein office since 2026still in office

10 rulers, 9 with terms dated as terms, covering 1993 – 2026. Only 33 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 5 of 8 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”.

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.

2005201020152020

941,200 km² in 2004, 941,200 km² in 2024; at its largest 941,200 km² in 2004. 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 of Venezuela (1811)
    flag, 1817 – 1899Flag of Venezuela (1811) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · HansenBCN
  • Bandera de la Guerra a Muerte
    flag, 1899 – 1903Bandera de la Guerra a Muerte · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Bandera_de_guerra_a_muerte_de_bolivar.jpg : Pruxo derivative work: L'Américain ( talk )
  • Bandera de Angostura (20 de noviembre de 1817)
    flag, 1903 – 1905Bandera de Angostura (20 de noviembre de 1817) · Public domain
  • Flag of Venezuela (1830-1836)
    flag, 1905 – 1917Flag of Venezuela (1830-1836) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Milenioscuro
  • Flag of Venezuela (1836–1859)
    flag, 1917 – 1920Flag of Venezuela (1836–1859) · Public domain
  • Flag of Venezuela (1817 and 1859)
    flag, 1920 – 1923Flag of Venezuela (1817 and 1859) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · HansenBCN
  • Flag of Venezuela (1859–1863)
    flag, 1923 – 1926Flag of Venezuela (1859–1863) · Public domain
  • Flag of Venezuela (1863–1905)
    flag, 1926 – 1927Flag of Venezuela (1863–1905) · Public domain
  • Flag of Venezuela (1905–1930)
    flag, 1927 – 1930Flag of Venezuela (1905–1930) · Public domain
  • Flag of Venezuela (1930–2006)
    flag, 1930 – 1954Flag of Venezuela (1930–2006) · Public domain
  • State flag of Venezuela (1954–2006)
    flag, 1954 – 2006State flag of Venezuela (1954–2006) · Public domain
  • Flag of Venezuela
    flag, from 2006Flag of Venezuela · Public domain

1 more in the atlas.

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 – 1999: 8 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 1 risings, regime changes and massacres, 7 other19002000 – 2099: 14 recorded — 4 wars and battles, 7 risings, regime changes and massacres, 3 other2000

1900 – 19998 rows · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres

2000 – 209914 rows · 4 wars and battles · 7 risings, regime changes and massacres

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 stood27 years

    stood longer than 25% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held941,200 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 84% 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 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: 10 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.

Gran Colombia · Linked · 1819 – 1831Gran ColombiaRepublic of Venezuela · Linked · 1953 – 1999Republic of VenezuelaMarcos Pérez Jiménez · Coincidence · 1914 – 2001Marcos Pérez JiménezCarlos Andrés Pérez · Coincidence · 1922 – 2010Carlos Andrés PérezJaime Lusinchi · Coincidence · 1924 – 2014Jaime LusinchiLuis Herrera Campins · Coincidence · 1925 – 2007Luis Herrera CampinsVenezuela · 1999 – 2026Venezuela1850190019502000
linkedcoincidence

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

Wikidata Q717 (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.