State · 1976 – present
Vietnam
A state of 1976 – present — 50 years, still standing in East and Southeast Asia. It replaced Đại Việt and followed North Vietnam, Nguyễn dynasty and Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam. The atlas records 19 things within it — wars and battles 3 · unrest and atrocity 1 · famine and plague 1 · people 14. Its line of rulers holds 7 people.
- 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
- 50 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 7
- the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam
- Most ground
- 338,700 km²
- in 1976
- Within it
- 19
- 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
- Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam · follows · 1969 – 1976
- Nguyễn dynasty · follows · 1802 – 1945
- Đại Việt · replaces · 1054 – 1400
- North Vietnam · follows · 1945 – 1976
Rulers
The leaders of its ruling party - the line the atlas measures; its formal heads of state are listed with the government below.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lê Duẩn | 1960 – 1986 | 26 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | |
| Trường Chinh | 1986 – 1986 | under a year | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Do Muoi | 1991 – 1997 | 6 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Le Kha Phieu | 1997 – 2001 | 4 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Nong Duc Manh | 2001 – 2011 | 10 years | ending not on record | |
| Nguyễn Phú Trọng | 2011 – 2024 | 13 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | |
| Tô Lâm | 2024 – in office | in office since 2024 | still in office |
7 rulers, 7 with terms dated as terms, covering 1960 – 2024. Median reign 8 years. 0 of 6 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”.
Formal heads of state and heads of government
The line of Prime Minister of Vietnam, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Lê Văn Hoạch | lived 1896 – 1978 |
| Phạm Văn Đồng | 1955 – 1976 |
| Tôn Đức Thắng | 1969 – 1976 |
| Trần Văn Huyến | lived 1971 – … |
| Phạm Văn Đồng | 1976 – 1987 |
| Tôn Đức Thắng | 1976 – 1980 |
| Nguyễn Hữu Thọ | 1980 – 1981 |
| Pham Hung | 1987 – 1988 |
| Do Muoi | 1988 – 1991 |
| Vo Van Kiet | 1992 – 1997 |
| Lê Đức Anh | 1992 – 1997 |
| Phan Văn Khải | 1997 – 2006 |
| Trần Đức Lương | 1997 – 2006 |
| Nguyễn Tấn Dũng | 2006 – 2016 |
| Nguyễn Minh Triết | 2006 – 2011 |
| Trương Tấn Sang | 2011 – 2016 |
| Nguyễn Xuân Phúc | 2016 – 2021 |
| Trần Đại Quang | 2016 – 2018 |
| Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh | 2018 – 2018 |
| Nguyễn Phú Trọng | 2018 – 2021 |
| Phạm Minh Chính | 2021 – … |
| Nguyễn Xuân Phúc | 2021 – 2023 |
| Võ Văn Thưởng | 2023 – 2024 |
| Võ Thị Ánh Xuân | 2023 – 2023 |
| Tô Lâm | 2024 – 2024 |
| Lương Cường | 2024 – 2026 |
| Lê Minh Hưng | 2026 – … |
| Tô Lâm | 2026 – … |
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.
338,700 km² in 1976, 338,700 km² in 2021; at its largest 338,700 km² in 1976. 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 1955Emblem of Vietnam · Public domain 
flag, from 1955Flag of Vietnam · 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 – 199916 rows · 2 wars and battles · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Trương Tấn Sang · ruler · 1949 – present
- Trần Đại Quang · ruler · 1956 – 2018
- Nguyễn Phú Trọng · ruler · 1944 – 2024
- Nguyễn Xuân Phúc · ruler · 1954 – present
- Nguyễn Minh Triết · ruler · 1942 – present
- Tô Lâm · ruler · 1957 – present
- Sino-Vietnamese War · war · 1979
- Trần Đức Lương · ruler · 1937 – 2025
and 8 more in the atlas.
2000 – 20992 rows · 1 wars and battles
- COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam · plague · 2020
- 2015 Southeast Asian haze · war · 2015
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 stood50 years
stood longer than 34% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held338,700 km²
held more ground at its peak than 67% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century2.0
had more wars on record per century than 97% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median10 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 35% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record7
has more rulers on record than 73% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 33 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, 1966 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1976, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q881 (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.