State · 600 – 345 BCE

Mahajanapadas

A state of 600 – 345 BCE — 255 years in South Asia. It replaced Janapada. It was replaced by Maurya Empire and Nanda Empire.

Wikidata's English label: Mahajanapada.

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

Stood: 255 years; 600 BCE – 345 BCE
Most ground: 804,500 km²; in 404 BCE

Map: Mahajanapadas in 404 BCE, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Mahajanapadas in 404 BCE, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 804,500 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.

Mahajanapadas in 600 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.

Mahajanapadas in 404 BCE, 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

Janapada · replaces · 1101 – 601 BCE

After it

Maurya Empire · replaced by · 322 – 185 BCE
Nanda Empire · replaced by · 345 – 321 BCE

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.

81,100 km² in 600 BCE, 804,500 km² in 360 BCE; at its largest 804,500 km² in 400 BCE. 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 stood255 years
stood longer than 69% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held804,500 km²
held more ground at its peak than 82% 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.

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, 626 BCE – 319 BCE, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 404 BCE, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q846025 (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.