Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 1392 – 1897

Joseon

A state of 1392 – 1897 — 505 years in East and Southeast Asia. It replaced Goryeo and Tamna. It was replaced by Korean Empire. The atlas records 78 things within it — wars and battles 30 · unrest and atrocity 4 · treaties 4 · people 40. Its line of rulers holds 27 people, 26 with dated terms.

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

Stood
505 years
1392 – 1897
Rulers
27
the king of Joseon Dynasty
Most ground
234,800 km²
in 1516
Within it
78
recorded rows
Symbols
2
on record, with years
Map: Joseon in 1516, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Joseon in 1516, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 234,800 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

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Tamna: 2337 BCE – 1404Goryeo: 918 – 1392Korean Empire: 1897 – 1910Joseon: 1392 – 1897

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

  • Tamna · replaces · 2337 BCE – 1404 CE
  • Goryeo · replaces · 918 – 1392

After it

Rulers

The line of king of Joseon Dynasty - the office this state names as its head of state.

Taejo of Joseon · 1392 – 1398 · abdicatedJeongjong of Joseon · 1398 – 1400 · abdicatedTaejong of Joseon · 1400 – 1418 · abdicatedSejong the Great · 1418 – 1450 · died in office of natural causesMunjong of Joseon · 1450 – 1452 · died in office of natural causesDanjong of Joseon · 1452 – 1455 · abdicatedSejo of Joseon · 1455 – 1468 · abdicatedYejong of Joseon · 1468 – 1469 · died in office of natural causesSeongjong of Joseon · 1469 – 1495 · died in office of natural causesYeonsangun of Joseon · 1495 – 1506 · deposed or removedJungjong of Joseon · 1506 – 1544 · abdicatedInjong of Joseon · 1544 – 1545 · died in office of natural causesMyeongjong of Joseon · 1545 – 1567 · died in office of natural causesSeonjo of Joseon · 1567 – 1608 · died in office of natural causesGwanghaegun of Joseon · 1608 – 1623 · deposed or removedInjo of Joseon · 1623 – 1649 · died in office of natural causesHyojong of Joseon · 1649 – 1659 · died in office, manner not recordedHyeonjong of Joseon · 1659 – 1674 · died in office, manner not recordedSukjong of Joseon · 1674 – 1720 · died in office of natural causesGyeongjong of Joseon · 1720 – 1724 · died in office, manner not recordedYeongjo of Joseon · 1724 – 1776 · died in office of natural causesJeongjo of Joseon · 1776 – 1800 · died in office, manner not recordedSunjo of Joseon · 1800 – 1834 · died in office, manner not recordedHeonjong of Joseon · 1834 – 1849 · died in office of natural causesCheoljong of Joseon · 1849 – 1863 · died in office of natural causesGojong of Korea · 1863 – 1897 · left office alive14001500160017001800
deposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular road
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Taejo of Joseon1392 – 13986 yearsabdicatedWikidata's end cause on the term
Jeongjong of Joseon1398 – 14002 yearsabdicatedWikidata's end cause on the termchild
Taejong of Joseon1400 – 141818 yearsabdicatedWikidata's end cause on the termsibling
Sejong the Great1418 – 145032 yearsdied in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of deathchild
Munjong of Joseon1450 – 14522 yearsdied in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of deathchild
Danjong of Joseon1452 – 14553 yearsabdicatedWikidata's end cause on the termchild
Sejo of Joseon1455 – 146813 yearsabdicatedWikidata's end cause on the term
Yejong of Joseon1468 – 14691 yeardied in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of deathchild
Seongjong of Joseon1469 – 149526 yearsdied in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of deathnephew or niece
Yeonsangun of Joseon1495 – 150611 yearsdeposed or removedWikidata's end cause on the termchild
Jungjong of Joseon1506 – 154438 yearsabdicatedWikidata's end cause on the termsibling
Injong of Joseon1544 – 15451 yeardied in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of deathchild
Myeongjong of Joseon1545 – 156722 yearsdied in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of deathsibling
Seonjo of Joseon1567 – 160841 yearsdied in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of deathnephew or niece
Gwanghaegun of Joseon1608 – 162315 yearsdeposed or removedWikidata's end cause on the termchild
Injo of Joseon1623 – 164926 yearsdied in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of deathnephew or niece
Hyojong of Joseon1649 – 165910 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alonechild
Hyeonjong of Joseon1659 – 167415 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alonechild
Sukjong of Joseon1674 – 172046 yearsdied in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of deathchild
Gyeongjong of Joseon1720 – 17244 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alonechild
Yeongjo of Joseon1724 – 177652 yearsdied in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of deathsibling
Jeongjo of Joseon1776 – 180024 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alonegrandchild
Sunjo of Joseon1800 – 183434 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alonechild
Heonjong of Joseon1834 – 184915 yearsdied in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of deathgrandchild
Cheoljong of Joseon1849 – 186314 yearsdied in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death
Gojong of Korea1863 – 189734 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone

27 rulers, 26 with terms dated as terms, covering 1392 – 1897. Median reign 15 years. 2 of 25 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.

1500160017001800

207,000 km² in 1417, 231,600 km² in 1897; at its largest 234,800 km² in 1517. 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 of the king of Joseon
    flag, undatedFlag of the king of Joseon · Public domain
  • Coat of Arms of Joseon Korea
    coat of arms, undatedCoat of Arms of Joseon Korea · 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.

1300 – 1399: 4 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 4 other13001400 – 1499: 7 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 7 other14001500 – 1599: 28 recorded — 20 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 8 other15001600 – 1699: 6 recorded — 1 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 5 other16001700 – 1799: 3 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 3 other17001800 – 1899: 30 recorded — 9 wars and battles, 4 risings, regime changes and massacres, 17 other1800

1300 – 13994 rows

1400 – 14997 rows

1500 – 159928 rows · 20 wars and battles

and 20 more in the atlas.

1600 – 16996 rows · 1 wars and battles

1700 – 17993 rows

1800 – 189930 rows · 9 wars and battles · 4 risings, regime changes and massacres

and 22 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 stood505 years

    stood longer than 87% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held234,800 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 62% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.

  • Wars recorded per century0.6

    had more wars on record per century than 91% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.

  • How long a reign lasted, at the median15 years

    had longer reigns, at the median, than 49% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.

  • Rulers on record27

    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: 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.

Tamna · Linked · 2337 BCE – 1404TamnaGoryeo · Linked · 918 – 1392GoryeoMing dynasty · In the article · 1368 · “Following the emergence of the Ming dynasty, the royal court in Goryeo split into two conflicting factions, one favoring neutrality and the other wanting to r…”Ming dynastyChen Li · Coincidence · 1351 – 1408Chen LiMing Sheng · Coincidence · 1356 – 1393Ming ShengJoseon · 1392 – 1897JoseonKorean Empire · Linked · 1897 – 1910Korean Empire2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000
in the articlelinkedcoincidence

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

Wikidata Q28179 (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.