State · 1897 – 1910

Korean Empire

A state of 1897 – 1910 — 13 years in East and Southeast Asia. It replaced Joseon. It was replaced by Korea under Japanese rule and Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea. The atlas records 10 things within it — wars and battles 4 · treaties 1 · people 5. Its line of rulers holds 2 people. Its own article says it was dissolved.

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

Stood: 13 years; 1897 – 1910
Rulers: 2; the Emperor of Korea
Most ground: 231,600 km²; in 1898
Within it: 10; recorded rows
Symbols: 3; on record, with years

Map: Korean Empire in 1898, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Korean Empire in 1898, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 231,600 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, 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

Joseon · replaces · 1392 – 1897

After it

Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea · replaced by · 1919 – 1945
Korea under Japanese rule · replaced by · 1910 – 1945

How it ended, as its article says

Dissolved, 1910. Read from the article's section “lead” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.

After the Japanese annexation in 1910, the Korean Empire ceased to exist.

One sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Rulers

The line of Emperor of Korea.

deposed, abdicated, exiled or removedleft alive by a regular road

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Gojong of Korea	1897 – 1907	10 years	deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Sunjong of Korea	1907 – 1910	3 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	child

2 rulers, 2 with terms dated as terms, covering 1897 – 1910. Only 13 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 1 of 1 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.

231,500 km² in 1902, 231,600 km² in 1910; at its largest 231,600 km² in 1907. 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, undatedFlag of Korea (1899) · Public domain
coat of arms, undatedImperial Seal of the Korean Empire · CC0
flag, from 1882Flag of Korea (1882–1910) · 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.

1800 – 18992 rows

Chang Myon · politician · 1899 – 1966
Sunjong of Korea · ruler · 1874 – 1926

1900 – 19998 rows · 4 wars and battles

Pak Hon-yong · politician · 1900 – 1956
Choe Yong-gon · politician · 1900 – 1976
Battle of the Yellow Sea · battle · 1904
Japan–Korea Treaty of 1905 · treaty · 1905
Kim Chaek · politician · 1903 – 1951
Battle of the Yalu River · battle · 1904
Battle of Chemulpo Bay · battle · 1904
Battle off Ulsan · battle · 1904

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 stood13 years
stood longer than 19% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held231,600 km²
held more ground at its peak than 61% 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.
Rulers on record2
has more rulers on record than 34% 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.

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, 1887 – 1920, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1898, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q28233 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · one sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.