State · 403 – 225 BCE
Wei (state)
A state of 403 – 225 BCE — 178 years in East and Southeast Asia. It replaced Jin (Chinese state) and Zhongshan. It was replaced by Qin. Its line of rulers holds 4 people, 3 with dated terms.
- Wikidata's English label: Wei.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 178 years
- 403 BCE – 225 BCE
- Rulers
- 4
- the king
- Most ground
- 97,200 km²
- in 291 BCE
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
- Jin (Chinese state) · replaces · 1101 – 376 BCE
- Zhongshan · replaces
After it
- Qin · replaced by · 905 – 221 BCE
Rulers
The line of king.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| King Hui of Wei | 344 BCE – 319 BCE | 25 years | ending not on record | |
| King Zhao of Wei | 295 BCE – 277 BCE | 18 years | ending not on record | grandchild |
| King Anxi of Wei | 276 BCE – 243 BCE | 33 years | ending not on record | child |
4 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 344 BCE – 243 BCE. Median reign 25 years. 0 of 2 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.
79,300 km² in 403 BCE, 96,900 km² in 225 BCE; at its largest 97,200 km² in 283 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 stood178 years
stood longer than 59% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held97,200 km²
held more ground at its peak than 45% 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 median25 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 75% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record4
has more rulers on record than 58% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 1 cause 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.
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, 421 BCE – 207 BCE, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 291 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 Q912052 (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.