State · 198 – 280

Eastern Wu

A state of 198 – 280 — 82 years in East and Southeast Asia. It replaced Eastern Han and followed Han dynasty. It was replaced by Western Jin dynasty. The atlas records 11 things within it — wars and battles 6 · people 5. Its line of rulers holds 4 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: 82 years; 198 – 280
Rulers: 4; the Emperor of China
Most ground: 1.40 million km²; in 263
Within it: 11; recorded rows

Map: Eastern Wu in 263, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Eastern Wu in 263, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 1.40 million 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.

Eastern Wu in 207, first mapped — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Eastern Wu in 263, at its largest — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

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

Eastern Han · replaces
Han dynasty · follows · 206 BCE – 220 CE

After it

Western Jin dynasty · replaced by

Rulers

The line of Emperor of China.

deposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officea second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Sun Quan	222 – 252	30 years	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death
Sun Liang	252 – 258	6 years	deposed or removedWikidata's end cause on the term	child
Sun Xiu	257 – 264	7 years	died in office, manner not recordedWikidata's end cause on the term	sibling
Sun Hao	264 – 280	16 years	abdicatedWikidata's end cause on the term	nephew or niece

4 rulers, 4 with terms dated as terms, covering 222 – 280. Median reign 11.5 years. 1 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.

610,200 km² in 208, 1.40 million km² in 280; at its largest 1.40 million km² in 268. 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.

100 – 1991 row

Sun Quan · ruler · 182 – 252

200 – 29910 rows · 6 wars and battles

Sun Xiu · ruler · 235 – 264
Sun Liang · ruler · 243 – 260
Sun Hao · ruler · 243 – 284
Battle of Xiaoting · battle · 221
Battle of Changban · battle · 208
Cheng Pu · commander · 200 – 300
Battle of Fancheng · battle · 219
Battle of Shiting · battle · 228

and 2 more in the atlas.

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 stood82 years
stood longer than 43% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held1,402,100 km²
held more ground at its peak than 88% 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 median16 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 51% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record4
has more rulers on record than 58% 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 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.

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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, 188 – 290, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 263, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q274488 (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.