State · 750 – 223 BCE

Yan (state)

A state of 750 – 223 BCE — 527 years in East and Southeast Asia. It was replaced by Qin.

Wikidata records no founding for it; the borders dataset maps it from 750 BCE to 223 BCE, and those are the years drawn here.
Wikidata's English label: Yan.

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

Stood: 527 years; 750 BCE – 223 BCE
Most ground: 105,000 km²; in 291 BCE

Map: Yan (state) in 291 BCE, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Yan (state) in 291 BCE, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 105,000 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.

Yan (state) 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.

Yan (state) in 291 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.

After it

Qin · replaced by · 905 – 221 BCE

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.

49,500 km² in 750 BCE, 105,000 km² in 223 BCE; at its largest 105,000 km² in 275 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 stood527 years
stood longer than 88% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held105,000 km²
held more ground at its peak than 46% 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.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 0 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.

linked

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, 803 BCE – 170 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 Q1055713 (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.