East Asia in 500 BC
500 BC is the Persian Empire at its height, on the eve of the Persian Wars. This map shows the 18 states and peoples the data has for East Asia in that year.
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States and peoples in East Asia in 500 BC
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Chu
- Wu
- Jin
- Yue
- Qi
- Qin
- Yan
- Lu
- Song
- Later Zhou
- Wey
- Zhu
- Zheng
- Chen
- Xu
- Teng
- Cao
- Cai
New on the map since 600 BC
Yue
Gone from the map by 400 BC
Wu · Jin · Zhu · Chen · Teng · Cao · Cai
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East Asia in other years
Other regions in 500 BC
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.