State · 207 – 111 BCE

Nanyue

A state of 207 – 111 BCE — 96 years in East and Southeast Asia. It replaced Qin dynasty and An Dương Vương. It was replaced by Western Han and Vietnam under Chinese rule. The atlas records 5 things within it — people 5. Its line of rulers holds 5 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: 96 years; 207 BCE – 111 BCE
Rulers: 5; the king
Most ground: 621,600 km²; in 170 BCE
Within it: 5; recorded rows
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: Nanyue in 170 BCE, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Nanyue in 170 BCE, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 621,600 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.

Nanyue in 170 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.

Nanyue 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, 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

Qin dynasty · replaces · 221 – 206 BCE
An Dương Vương · replaces

After it

Western Han · replaced by
Vietnam under Chinese rule · replaced by

Rulers

The line of king.

killed, executed or dead in battledied in office

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Zhao Tuo	207 BCE – 137 BCE	70 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Zhao Mo	137 BCE – 125 BCE	12 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	grandchild
Zhao Yingqi	125 BCE – 113 BCE	12 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Zhao Xing	113 BCE – 112 BCE	1 year	killedWikidata's manner of death	child
Zhao Jiande	112 BCE – 111 BCE	1 year	executed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	sibling

5 rulers, 5 with terms dated as terms, covering 207 BCE – 111 BCE. Median reign 12 years. 1 of 4 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.

352,300 km² in 197 BCE, 352,300 km² in 111 BCE; at its largest 621,600 km² in 167 BCE. 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.

seal, undatedSeal of Nanyue (Zhao Mo) · CC0

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.

300 BCE – 201 BCE2 rows

Zhao Tuo · ruler · 230 – 137 BCE
Zhao Mo · ruler · 201 – 125 BCE

200 BCE – 101 BCE3 rows

Zhao Yingqi · ruler · 151 – 113 BCE
Zhao Xing · ruler · 151 – 112 BCE
Zhao Jiande · ruler · 151 – 111 BCE

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 stood96 years
stood longer than 46% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held621,600 km²
held more ground at its peak than 78% 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.
How long a reign lasted, at the median12 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 41% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record5
has more rulers on record than 64% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 2 causes 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.

Theories that apply to its ending

Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending and 1 some of them; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.

Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling
Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009
Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.
- the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 96

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 217 BCE – 101 BCE, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 170 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 Q827040 (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.