State · 939 – 965

Ngô dynasty

A state of 939 – 965 — 26 years in East and Southeast Asia. The atlas records 1 thing within it — people 1. Its line of rulers holds 12 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: 26 years; 939 – 965
Rulers: 12; the emperor
Most ground: 62,300 km²; in 947
Within it: 1; recorded row

Map: Ngô dynasty in 947, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Ngô dynasty in 947, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 62,300 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.

Rulers

The line of emperor.

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Meng Zhixiang	925 – 934	9 years	ending not on record
Qian Yuanguan	927 – 941	14 years	ending not on record
Gao Conghui	929 – 948	19 years	ending not on record
Dương Đình Nghệ	931 – 937	6 years	ending not on record
Kieu Cong Tien	937 – 937	under a year	ending not on record
Ngô Quyền	939 – 944	5 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Duong Tam Kha	944 – 950	6 years	ending not on record
Gao Baorong	948 – 960	12 years	ending not on record
Ngô Xương Ngập	950 – 954	4 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Ngô Xương Văn	950 – 965	15 years	killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	sibling
Gao Baoxu	960 – 962	2 years	ending not on record
Gao Jichong	962 – 963	1 year	ending not on record	nephew or niece

12 rulers, 12 with terms dated as terms, covering 925 – 965. Only 40 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 7 of 11 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. The violent-handover count is withheld: power changed hands so often that any rising falls beside one (exposure 0.95, limit 0.6). 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.

62,300 km² in 949, 62,300 km² in 965; at its largest 62,300 km² in 949. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

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.

1 rows, over a span too long to list by century.

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 stood26 years
stood longer than 25% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held62,300 km²
held more ground at its peak than 36% 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 record12
has more rulers on record than 84% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 929 – 975, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 947, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q703919 (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.