State · 907 – 960

Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period

A state of 907 – 960 — 53 years in East and Southeast Asia. It followed Sui Tang. It was replaced by Song dynasty and followed by Song Liao Jin Xia. Its line of rulers holds 10 people.

Wikidata's English label: Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period.

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

Stood: 53 years; 907 – 960
Rulers: 10; the Emperor of China
Most ground: 2.99 million km²; in 922

Map: Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period in 922, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period in 922, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 2.99 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.

Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period in 922, 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.

Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period in 970, last 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.

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

Sui Tang · follows

After it

Song dynasty · replaced by · 960 – 1279
Song Liao Jin Xia · followed by

Rulers

The line of Emperor of China.

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular road

10 terms are shared from [object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object].

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Zhu Wen · from the line of Later Liang (Five Dynasties)	907 – 912	5 years	killedWikidata's manner of death
Zhu Yougui · from the line of Later Liang (Five Dynasties)	912 – 913	1 year	died by suicideWikidata's manner of death	child
Zhu Youzhen · from the line of Later Liang (Five Dynasties)	913 – 923	10 years	died by suicideWikidata's manner of death	sibling
Shi Jingtang · from the line of Later Jin (Five Dynasties)	936 – 942	6 years	died in office, manner not recordedWikidata's end cause on the term
Shi Chonggui · from the line of Later Jin (Five Dynasties)	942 – 947	5 years	deposed or removedWikidata's end cause on the term	nephew or niece
Liu Zhiyuan · from the line of Later Han	947 – 948	1 year	died in office, manner not recordedWikidata's end cause on the term
Liu Chengyou · from the line of Later Han	948 – 951	3 years	killedWikidata's manner of death	child
Guo Wei · from the line of Later Zhou	951 – 954	3 years	died in office, manner not recordedWikidata's end cause on the term
Chai Rong · from the line of Later Zhou	954 – 959	5 years	died in office, manner not recordedWikidata's end cause on the term	another recorded relative
Guo Zongxun · from the line of Later Zhou	959 – 960	1 year	ended by a named eventWikidata's end cause on the term	child

10 rulers, 10 with terms dated as terms, covering 907 – 960. Median reign 4 years. 3 of 9 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 0.70, 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.

2.99 million km² in 917, 2.77 million km² in 960; at its largest 2.99 million km² in 917. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

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 stood53 years
stood longer than 35% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held2,991,200 km²
held more ground at its peak than 95% 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 median5 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 18% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record10
has more rulers on record than 80% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 2 causes the record names and 3 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.

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, 897 – 970, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 922, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q242115 (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.