State · 849 – 1297

Pagan Kingdom

A state of 849 – 1297 — 448 years in East and Southeast Asia. The atlas records 19 things within it — people 19. Its line of rulers holds 39 people, 22 with dated terms.

Wikidata's English label: Pagan kingdom.

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

Stood: 448 years; 849 – 1297
Rulers: 39; the King of Burma
Most ground: 440,800 km²; in 1188
Within it: 19; recorded rows

Map: Pagan Kingdom in 1188, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Pagan Kingdom in 1188, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 440,800 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.

Pagan Kingdom in 850, 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.

Pagan Kingdom in 1188, 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.

Rulers

The line of King of Burma.

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending 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
Kyaung Tu Yit	344 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Khelu	829 – 846	17 years	ending not on record
Pyinbya	846 – 886	40 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone	sibling
Tannet of Pagan	886 – 904	18 years	killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	child
Sale Ngahkwe	904 – 934	30 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Theinhko	934 – 956	22 years	killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	child
Nyaung-u Sawrahan	956 – 1001	45 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Kunhsaw Kyaunghpyu	1001 – 1021	20 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Kyiso	1021 – 1038	17 years	killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Sokkate	1038 – 1044	6 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Anawrahta	1044 – 1077	33 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Saw Lu	1077 – 1084	7 years	killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	child
Kyansittha	1084 – 1113	29 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone	sibling
Alaungsithu	1112 – 1167	55 years	killedWikidata's manner of death	grandchild
Narathu	1168 – 1171	3 years	killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	child
Naratheinkha	1171 – 1174	3 years	killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	child
Narapatisithu	1174 – 1211	37 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Htilominlo	1211 – 1235	24 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Kyaswa	1235 – 1251	16 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Uzana of Pagan	1251 – 1256	5 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Narathihapate	1256 – 1287	31 years	killedWikidata's manner of death	child
Kyawswa of Pagan	1289 – 1297	8 years	deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	child

39 rulers, 22 with terms dated as terms, covering 344 – 1297. Median reign 20 years. 9 of 21 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.

26,900 km² in 874, 440,800 km² in 1274; at its largest 440,800 km² in 1199. 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.

800 – 8992 rows

Tannet of Pagan · ruler · 859 – 904
Sale Ngahkwe · ruler · 875 – 934

900 – 9993 rows

Nyaung-u Sawrahan · ruler · 924 – 1001
Theinhko · ruler · 910 – 956
Kunhsaw Kyaunghpyu · ruler · 955 – 1048

1000 – 10996 rows

Anawrahta · ruler · 1014 – 1077
Kyansittha · ruler · 1030 – 1112
Saw Lu · ruler · 1049 – 1084
Alaungsithu · ruler · 1089 – 1167
Kyiso · ruler · 1000 – 1038
Sokkate · ruler · 1001 – 1044

1100 – 11995 rows

Narathu · ruler · 1118 – 1171
Narapatisithu · ruler · 1138 – 1211
Kyaswa · ruler · 1198 – 1251
Naratheinkha · ruler · 1134 – 1174
Htilominlo · ruler · 1175 – 1235

1200 – 12993 rows

Narathihapate · ruler · 1238 – 1287
Kyawswa of Pagan · ruler · 1260 – 1299
Uzana of Pagan · ruler · 1213 – 1256

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 stood448 years
stood longer than 83% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held440,800 km²
held more ground at its peak than 72% 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 median20 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 62% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record39
has more rulers on record than 96% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 804 – 1342, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1188, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q888574 (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.