State · 806 – 375 BCE

Zheng

A state of 806 – 375 BCE — 431 years in East and Southeast Asia. It was replaced by Han (Warring States). 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: 431 years; 806 BCE – 375 BCE
Rulers: 3; the Duke of Zheng
Most ground: 10,800 km²; in 450 BCE

Map: Zheng in 450 BCE, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Zheng in 450 BCE, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 10,800 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.

Zheng 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.

Zheng 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.

After it

Han (Warring States) · replaced by · 403 – 230 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
Duke Huan of Zheng	806 BCE – 771 BCE	35 years	ending not on record
Duke Wu of Zheng	770 BCE – 744 BCE	26 years	ending not on record	child
Duke Zhuang of Zheng	743 BCE – 701 BCE	42 years	ending not on record	child

3 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 806 BCE – 701 BCE. Median reign 35 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.

5,600 km² in 731 BCE, 10,400 km² in 375 BCE; at its largest 10,800 km² in 431 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 stood431 years
stood longer than 83% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held10,800 km²
held more ground at its peak than 15% 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 median35 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 89% 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: 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, 849 BCE – 332 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 Q197598 (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.