State · 37 BCE – 668 CE

Goguryeo

A state of 37 BCE – 668 CE — 705 years in East and Southeast Asia. It replaced Buyeo. It was replaced by Tang dynasty and Unified Silla. The atlas records 28 things within it — wars and battles 2 · people 26. Its line of rulers holds 28 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: 705 years; 37 BCE – 668
Rulers: 28; the wang
Most ground: 408,400 km²; in 480
Within it: 28; recorded rows
Symbols: 3; on record, with years

Map: Goguryeo in 480, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Goguryeo in 480, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 408,400 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.

Goguryeo in 36 BCE, 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.

Goguryeo in 480, 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

Buyeo · replaces

After it

Unified Silla · replaced by · 668 – 892
Tang dynasty · replaced by · 618 – 907

Rulers

The line of wang.

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Dongmyeong of Goguryeo	37 BCE – 19 BCE	18 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Yuri of Goguryeo	19 BCE – 18	37 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Daemusin of Goguryeo	18 – 44	26 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Mobon of Goguryeo	48 – 53	5 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Taejo of Goguryeo	53 – 146	93 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Chadae of Goguryeo	146 – 165	19 years	killedWikidata's manner of death	sibling
Sindae of Goguryeo	165 – 179	14 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Gogukcheon of Goguryeo	179 – 197	18 years	ending not on record	child
Sansang of Goguryeo	197 – 227	30 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Dongcheon of Goguryeo	227 – 248	21 years	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death	child
Jungcheon of Goguryeo	248 – 270	22 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Seocheon of Goguryeo	270 – 292	22 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Bongsang of Goguryeo	292 – 300	8 years	died by suicideWikidata's manner of death	child
Micheon of Goguryeo	300 – 331	31 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	nephew or niece
Gogugwon	331 – 371	40 years	died in battleWikidata's manner of death	child
Sosurim of Goguryeo	371 – 384	13 years	ending not on record	child
Gogugyang of Goguryeo	384 – 391	7 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Gwanggaeto the Great	391 – 413	22 years	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death	child
Jangsu of Goguryeo	413 – 491	78 years	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death	child
Munjamyeong of Goguryeo	491 – 519	28 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	grandchild
Anjang of Goguryeo	519 – 531	12 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Anwon of Goguryeo	531 – 545	14 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Yangwon of Goguryeo	545 – 559	14 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Pyeongwon of Goguryeo	559 – 590	31 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Yeongyang of Goguryeo	590 – 618	28 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Yeongnyu of Goguryeo	618 – 642	24 years	executedWikidata's manner of death	sibling
Bojang of Goguryeo	642 – 668	26 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	nephew or niece
Anseung	668 – 670	2 years	ending not on record

28 rulers, 28 with terms dated as terms, covering 37 BCE – 670. Median reign 22 years. 3 of 27 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.

93,500 km² in 12 BCE, 360,100 km² in 668; at its largest 408,400 km² in 488. 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.

flag, undatedMilitary Flag of Goguryeo · Public domain
flag, undatedMilitary Flag of Goguryeo (Ssangyeongchong) · CC0
flag, undatedMilitary Flag of Goguryeo.svg (Tonggu No. 12) · CC0

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 BCE – 1 BCE2 rows

Dongmyeong of Goguryeo · ruler · 58 – 19 BCE
Yuri of Goguryeo · ruler · 38 BCE – 18 CE

0 – 995 rows

Daemusin of Goguryeo · ruler · 4 – 44
Mobon of Goguryeo · ruler · 30 – 53
Taejo of Goguryeo · ruler · 47 – 165
Sindae of Goguryeo · ruler · 89 – 179
Chadae of Goguryeo · ruler · 71 – 165

100 – 1991 row

Gogukcheon of Goguryeo · ruler · 101 – 197

200 – 2995 rows

Sansang of Goguryeo · ruler · 200 – 227
Seocheon of Goguryeo · ruler · 250 – 292
Dongcheon of Goguryeo · ruler · 209 – 248
Jungcheon of Goguryeo · ruler · 224 – 270
Micheon of Goguryeo · ruler · 250 – 331

300 – 3995 rows

Gwanggaeto the Great · ruler · 374 – 413
Jangsu of Goguryeo · ruler · 394 – 491
Bongsang of Goguryeo · ruler · 300
Sosurim of Goguryeo · ruler · 301 – 384
Gogugyang of Goguryeo · ruler · 350 – 391

400 – 4991 row

Anjang of Goguryeo · ruler · 498 – 531

500 – 5996 rows

Munjamyeong of Goguryeo · ruler · 500 – 519
Yeongyang of Goguryeo · ruler · 550 – 618
Pyeongwon of Goguryeo · ruler · 501 – 590
Yeongnyu of Goguryeo · ruler · 550 – 642
Anwon of Goguryeo · ruler · 501 – 545
Yangwon of Goguryeo · ruler · 550 – 559

600 – 6993 rows · 2 wars and battles

Goguryeo–Tang War · war · 645 – 668
Bojang of Goguryeo · ruler · 650 – 682
Battle of Ansi · battle · 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 stood705 years
stood longer than 93% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held408,400 km²
held more ground at its peak than 71% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per century0.1
had more wars on record per century than 89% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median22 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 68% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record28
has more rulers on record than 94% 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 2 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.

in the articlelinked

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, 108 BCE – 739, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 480, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q28370 (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.