State · 1559 – 1768

Gorkha kingdom

A state of 1559 – 1768 — 209 years in South Asia. Its line of rulers holds 3 people.

Wikidata's English label: Gorkha Kingdom.

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

Stood: 209 years; 1559 – 1768
Rulers: 3; the monarch
Most ground: 149,200 km²; in 1762

Map: Gorkha kingdom in 1762, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Gorkha kingdom in 1762, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 149,200 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.

Rulers

The line of monarch.

left alive by a regular roadending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Dravya Shah	1559 – 1570	11 years	ending not on record
Purna Shah	1570 – 1605	35 years	ending not on record	child
Prithvi Narayan Shah	1743 – 1768	25 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone

3 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 1559 – 1768. Median reign 25 years. 0 of 2 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.

148,300 km² in 1589, 149,200 km² in 1768; at its largest 149,200 km² in 1768. 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 stood209 years
stood longer than 64% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held149,200 km²
held more ground at its peak than 53% 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 median25 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 75% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record3
has more rulers on record than 48% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1538 – 1789, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1762, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q3332217 (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.