State · 1979

Zimbabwe Rhodesia

A state of 1979 — under a year in the Middle East and North Africa. It replaced Rhodesia. It was replaced by Southern Rhodesia. The atlas records 1 thing within it — people 1. Its line of rulers holds 2 people.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: under a year; 1979 – 1979
Rulers: 2; the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia
Most ground: 394,000 km²; in 1979
Within it: 1; recorded row
Symbols: 3; on record, with years

Map: Zimbabwe Rhodesia in 1979, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Zimbabwe Rhodesia in 1979, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 394,000 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, 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

Rhodesia · replaces · 1965 – 1979

After it

Southern Rhodesia · replaced by

Rulers

The line of Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia.

left alive by a regular roadending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Abel Muzorewa	1979 – 1979	under a year	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Josiah Zion Gumede	1979 – 1979	under a year	ending not on record

2 rulers, 2 with terms dated as terms, covering 1979 – 1979. 0 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 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.

394,000 km² in 1979. 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, undatedCoat of arms of Southern Rhodesia (1924–1981) · Public domain
flag, 1979 – 1979Flag of Rhodesia (1968–1979) · Public domain
flag, 1979 – 1979Flag of Zimbabwe Rhodesia (1979) · 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 – 19991 row

Abel Muzorewa · religious leader · 1925 – 2010

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 stood1 years
stood longer than 3% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held394,000 km²
held more ground at its peak than 70% 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 record2
has more rulers on record than 34% 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 1 result, 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.

linked

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, 1969 – 1989, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1979, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q890120 (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.