State · 1980 – present
Zimbabwe
A state of 1980 – present — 46 years, still standing in sub-Saharan Africa. It replaced Southern Rhodesia. The atlas records 8 things within it — unrest and atrocity 2 · famine and plague 2 · people 4. Its line of rulers holds 5 people, 4 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
- 5
- the President of Zimbabwe
- Most ground
- 394,000 km²
- in 1983
- Within it
- 8
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 3
- on record, with years
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
- Southern Rhodesia · replaces
Rulers
The line of President of Zimbabwe - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canaan Banana | 1980 – 1987 | 7 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Robert Mugabe | 1987 – 2017 | 30 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Phelekezela Mphoko | 2017 – 2017 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Emmerson Mnangagwa | 2017 – in office | in office since 2017 | still in office |
5 rulers, 4 with terms dated as terms, covering 1980 – 2017. Only 37 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 2 of 3 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.
394,000 km² in 1985, 394,000 km² in 2020; at its largest 394,000 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.
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flag, undatedFlag of Rhodesia (1968–1979) · Public domain 
flag, from 1979Flag of Zimbabwe · Public domain 
coat of arms, from 1981Coat of arms of Zimbabwe · 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 – 19995 rows · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Robert Mugabe · ruler · 1924 – 2019
- Emmerson Mnangagwa · ruler · 1942 – present
- Canaan Banana · ruler · 1936 – 2003
- Phelekezela Mphoko · ruler · 1940 – 2024
- Gukurahundi · atrocity · 1983 – 1987
2000 – 20993 rows · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- 2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état · unrest · 2017
- COVID-19 pandemic in Zimbabwe · plague · 2020
- 2008 Zimbabwean cholera outbreak · plague · 2008 – 2009
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 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 record5
has more rulers on record than 64% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 6 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, 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 Q954 (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.