State · 538 – 710

Asuka period

A state of 538 – 710 — 172 years in East and Southeast Asia. The atlas records 2 things within it — wars and battles 1 · unrest and atrocity 1.

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

Stood: 172 years; 538 – 710
Most ground: 230,100 km²; in 540
Within it: 2; recorded rows

Map: Asuka period in 540, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Asuka period in 540, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 230,100 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.

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.

230,100 km² in 548, 230,100 km² in 708; at its largest 230,100 km² in 548. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

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.

600 – 6992 rows · 1 wars and battles · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres

Jinshin War · war · 672
Isshi incident · atrocity · 645

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 stood172 years
stood longer than 58% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held230,100 km²
held more ground at its peak than 61% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per century0.6
had more wars on record per century than 91% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 521 – 727, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 540, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q210688 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.