East Asia in 1206
1206 is the year Genghis Khan united the Mongols. This map shows the 16 states and peoples the data has for East Asia in that year.
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States and peoples in East Asia in 1206
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Mongol Empire
- Great Jin
- Southern Song
- Western Xia
- Tibetans
- Khmer Empire
- Kingdom of Dali
- Kamakura Shogunate
- Pagan Kingdom
- Yenisei Kyrgyz
- Goryeo
- Ngô Dynasty
- Kara-Khitans
- Haripuñjaya
- Tamna
- Shunten Dynasty
New on the map since 1156
Mongol Empire · Kamakura Shogunate · Shunten Dynasty
Gone from the map by 1256
Great Jin · Western Xia · Tibetans · Yenisei Kyrgyz · Kara-Khitans
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East Asia in other years
Other regions in 1206
The outlines are coarse and follow the Cliopatria dataset: borders before modern surveys are estimates, and a blank area means the data has no state on record there, not that nobody lived there. A state that changed hands during the year can appear together with its successor.