State · 905 – 221 BCE

Qin

A state of 905 – 221 BCE — 684 years in East and Southeast Asia. It replaced Chu (state), Yan (state) and Zhao and 6 more. It was replaced by Qin dynasty. The atlas records 9 things within it — people 9. Its line of rulers holds 8 people, 7 with dated terms.

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

Stood: 684 years; 905 BCE – 221 BCE
Rulers: 8; the Chinese king
Most ground: 1.52 million km²; in 222 BCE
Within it: 9; recorded rows

Map: Qin in 222 BCE, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Qin in 222 BCE, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 1.52 million 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.

Qin in 750 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.

Qin in 222 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

Yue · replaces · 1101 – 222 BCE
Shu · replaces · 2001 – 316 BCE
Han (Warring States) · replaces · 403 – 230 BCE
Zhao · replaces · 403 – 222 BCE
Eastern Zhou · replaces · 771 – 256 BCE
Yan (state) · replaces · 750 – 223 BCE
Tian Qi · replaces
Chu (state) · replaces · 722 – 223 BCE
Wei (state) · replaces · 403 – 225 BCE

After it

Qin dynasty · replaced by · 221 – 206 BCE

Rulers

The line of Chinese king.

died in officeleft alive by a regular road

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Duke Xiao of Qin	361 BCE – 338 BCE	23 years	died in office, manner not recordedWikidata's end cause on the term
King Huiwen of Qin	338 BCE – 311 BCE	27 years	died in office, manner not recordedWikidata's end cause on the term	child
King Wu of Qin	310 BCE – 307 BCE	3 years	died in office, manner not recordedWikidata's end cause on the term	child
King Zhaoxiang of Qin	306 BCE – 251 BCE	55 years	died in office, manner not recordedWikidata's end cause on the term	sibling
King Xiaowen of Qin	250 BCE – 250 BCE	under a year	died in office, manner not recordedWikidata's end cause on the term	child
King Zhuangxiang of Qin	250 BCE – 247 BCE	3 years	died in office, manner not recordedWikidata's end cause on the term	child
Qin Shi Huang	247 BCE – 221 BCE	26 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	child

8 rulers, 7 with terms dated as terms, covering 361 BCE – 221 BCE. Median reign 23 years. 0 of 6 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.

56,500 km² in 730 BCE, 1.52 million km² in 221 BCE; at its largest 1.52 million km² in 221 BCE. 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.

400 BCE – 301 BCE6 rows

Shang Yang · philosopher · 390 – 338 BCE
King Zhaoxiang of Qin · ruler · 325 – 251 BCE
King Xiaowen of Qin · ruler · 302 – 250 BCE
Duke Xiao of Qin · ruler · 381 – 338 BCE
King Wu of Qin · ruler · 329 – 307 BCE
King Huiwen of Qin · ruler · 356 – 311 BCE

300 BCE – 201 BCE3 rows

Qin Shi Huang · ruler · 259 – 210 BCE
Ziying of Qin · person · 239 – 206 BCE
King Zhuangxiang of Qin · ruler · 281 – 247 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 stood684 years
stood longer than 93% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held1,523,800 km²
held more ground at its peak than 88% 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 median23 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 70% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record8
has more rulers on record than 76% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 4 causes the record names and 1 result, 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.

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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, 973 BCE – 153 BCE, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 222 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 Q34756 (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.