State · 334 – 110 BCE

Minyue

A state of 334 – 110 BCE — 224 years in East and Southeast Asia. Its own article says it was conquered by Han empire as the dynasty.

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

Stood: 224 years; 334 BCE – 110 BCE
Most ground: 469,000 km²; in 203 BCE

Map: Minyue in 203 BCE, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Minyue in 203 BCE, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 469,000 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.

Minyue in 203 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.

Minyue in 126 BCE, last 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.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

How it ended, as its article says

Conquered by Han empire as the dynasty. Read from the article's section “lead” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.

It was a contemporary of the Han dynasty, and was later annexed by the Han empire as the dynasty expanded southward.

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

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.

377,400 km² in 324 BCE, 269,200 km² in 114 BCE; at its largest 432,000 km² in 204 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 stood224 years
stood longer than 66% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held469,000 km²
held more ground at its peak than 73% 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.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 356 BCE – 88 BCE, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 203 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 Q1936158 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · 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.