State · 918 – 1392

Goryeo

A state of 918 – 1392 — 474 years in East and Southeast Asia. It replaced Parhae, Unified Silla and T'aebong and 1 more. It was replaced by Joseon. The atlas records 12 things within it — wars and battles 4 · unrest and atrocity 1 · people 7. Its line of rulers holds 3 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: 474 years; 918 – 1392
Rulers: 3; the monarch
Most ground: 208,100 km²; in 1375
Within it: 12; recorded rows
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: Goryeo in 1375, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Goryeo in 1375, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 208,100 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.

Goryeo in 922, 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.

Goryeo in 1375, 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

Parhae · replaces · 698 – 926
Later Paekche · replaces · 892 – 936
T'aebong · replaces · 901 – 918
Unified Silla · replaces · 668 – 892

After it

Joseon · replaced by · 1392 – 1897

Rulers

The line of monarch.

killed, executed or dead in battledied in office

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Chungnyeol of Goryeo	1274 – 1308	34 years	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death
Gongmin of Goryeo	1351 – 1374	23 years	killedWikidata's manner of death
U of Goryeo	1374 – 1389	15 years	executedWikidata's manner of death	child

3 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 1274 – 1389. Median reign 23 years. 1 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.

142,800 km² in 943, 208,100 km² in 1392; at its largest 208,100 km² in 1392. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flag or arms

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

flag, undatedRoyal flag of Goryeo (Bong-gi) · Public domain

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.

900 – 9994 rows · 2 wars and battles

Hyeonjong of Goryeo · ruler · 992 – 1031
Kang Kamch'an · commander · 948 – 1031
Goryeo–Khitan War · war · 993 – 1022
First conflict in the Goryeo–Khitan War · war · 993

1000 – 10992 rows · 1 wars and battles

Kim Pusik · politician · 1075 – 1151
Second conflict in the Goryeo–Khitan War · war · 1010 – 1011

1200 – 12994 rows · 1 wars and battles · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres

Mongol invasions of Korea · war · 1231 – 1270
Wonjong of Goryeo · person · 1219 – 1274
Chungnyeol of Goryeo · ruler · 1236 – 1308
Sambyeolcho Rebellion · unrest · 1270 – 1273

1300 – 13992 rows

Gongmin of Goryeo · ruler · 1330 – 1374
U of Goryeo · ruler · 1365 – 1389

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 stood474 years
stood longer than 85% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held208,100 km²
held more ground at its peak than 59% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per century0.8
had more wars on record per century than 92% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median23 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 70% 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.

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, 871 – 1439, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1375, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q28208 (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.