State · 1101 – 222 BCE

Yue

A state of 1101 – 222 BCE — 879 years in East and Southeast Asia. It replaced Wu and Tan. It was replaced by Qin. Its line of rulers holds 1 person.

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

Stood: 879 years; 1101 BCE – 222 BCE
Rulers: 1; the King of Yue
Most ground: 188,700 km²; in 450 BCE

Map: Yue in 450 BCE, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Yue in 450 BCE, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 188,700 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.

Yue in 500 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.

Yue in 450 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

Tan · replaces
Wu · replaces · 901 – 473 BCE

After it

Qin · replaced by · 905 – 221 BCE

Rulers

Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.

ending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Goujian	496 BCE – 465 BCE	31 years	ending not on record

1 rulers, 1 with terms dated as terms, covering 496 BCE – 465 BCE. Only 31 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 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.

110,500 km² in 476 BCE, 185,800 km² in 351 BCE; at its largest 188,700 km² in 426 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 stood879 years
stood longer than 96% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held188,700 km²
held more ground at its peak than 57% 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.
Rulers on record1
has more rulers on record than 13% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

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, 1189 BCE – 134 BCE, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 450 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 Q1137403 (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.