State · 1038 – 1227

Western Xia

A state of 1038 – 1227 — 189 years in East and Southeast Asia. It followed Song. It was replaced by Mongol Empire. The atlas records 5 things within it — wars and battles 2 · people 3. Its line of rulers holds 3 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: 189 years; 1038 – 1227
Rulers: 3; the emperor
Most ground: 473,700 km²; in 1139
Within it: 5; recorded rows

Map: Western Xia in 1139, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Western Xia in 1139, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 473,700 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.

Western Xia in 1034, 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.

Western Xia in 1139, 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

Song · follows · 1101 – 286 BCE

After it

Mongol Empire · replaced by · 1206 – 1368

Rulers

The line of emperor.

killed, executed or dead in battledied in office

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source
Emperor Jingzong of Western Xia	1038 – 1048	10 years	killedWikidata's manner of death
Emperor Renzong of Western Xia	1139 – 1193	54 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Last Emperor of Western Xia	1226 – 1227	1 year	killedWikidata's manner of death

3 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 1038 – 1227. Median reign 10 years. 1 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.

113,400 km² in 1038, 109,900 km² in 1218; at its largest 473,700 km² in 1148. 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.

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 stood189 years
stood longer than 61% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held473,700 km²
held more ground at its peak than 74% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per century0.5
had more wars on record per century than 91% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median10 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 35% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record3
has more rulers on record than 48% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 5 causes the record names and 6 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.

in the articlelinked

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, 1019 – 1246, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1139, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q7427 (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.