State · 1964 – present

Zambia

A state of 1964 – present — 62 years, still standing in sub-Saharan Africa. It replaced Northern Rhodesia. The atlas records 9 things within it — famine and plague 1 · people 8. Its line of rulers holds 8 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: 62 years; and still standing
Rulers: 8; the President of Zambia
Most ground: 749,700 km²; in 1967
Within it: 9; recorded rows
Symbols: 3; on record, with years

Map: Zambia in 1967, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Zambia in 1967, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 749,700 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

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

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

Northern Rhodesia · replaces

Rulers

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

died in officeleft alive by a regular roadstill in office

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source
Kenneth Kaunda	1964 – 1991	27 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Frederick Chiluba	1991 – 2002	11 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Levy Mwanawasa	2002 – 2008	6 years	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death
Rupiah Banda	2008 – 2011	3 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Michael Sata	2011 – 2014	3 years	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death
Guy Scott	2014 – 2015	1 year	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Edgar Lungu	2015 – 2021	6 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Hakainde Hichilema	2021 – in office	in office since 2021	still in office

8 rulers, 8 with terms dated as terms, covering 1964 – 2021. Median reign 6 years. 1 of 7 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”.

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.

749,700 km² in 1974, 749,700 km² in 2024; at its largest 749,700 km² in 1974. 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, undatedFlag of Zambia (1964–1996) · Public domain
coat of arms, from 1964Coat of arms of Zambia · Public domain
flag, from 1996Flag of Zambia · 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 – 19998 rows

Kenneth Kaunda · ruler · 1924 – 2021
Edgar Lungu · ruler · 1956 – 2025
Hakainde Hichilema · ruler · 1962 – present
Michael Sata · ruler · 1937 – 2014
Levy Mwanawasa · ruler · 1948 – 2008
Frederick Chiluba · ruler · 1943 – 2011
Rupiah Banda · ruler · 1937 – 2022
Guy Scott · ruler · 1944 – present

2000 – 20991 row

COVID-19 pandemic in Zambia · 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 stood62 years
stood longer than 37% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held749,700 km²
held more ground at its peak than 80% 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.
How long a reign lasted, at the median6 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 22% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record8
has more rulers on record than 76% 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.

in the articlelinkedcoincidence

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, 1954 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1967, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q953 (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.