Empire37 BCE – 668 CE · 705 years
Goguryeo Kingdom
Overview
Goguryeo also later known as Goryeo, was a Korean kingdom which was located on the northern and central parts of the Korean peninsula and the southern and central parts of modern-day Northeast China (Manchuria). At its peak of power, Goguryeo encompassed most of the Korean peninsula and large parts of Manchuria, along with parts of eastern Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, and modern-day Russia.
Wikipedia: Goguryeo·CC BY-SA 4.0
Borders & accuracy
Solid borders are reconstructed from canonical historical-basemap data or hand-crafted from scholarly atlases.
- SOURCEhand-crafted from scholarly atlases
- DETAILhand-traced-from:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goguryeo
- SNAPSHOT500 CE
- POLITY TYPEstate
Wars of this empire7
Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.
- Three Kingdoms of Korea Wars37 BCE–668 CEMajor conflict
- Goguryeo-Tang Wars645–668 CEMajor conflict
- Yangdi's Goguryeo Campaigns612–614 CESignificant · 500K dead
- Goguryeo-Sui Wars598–614 CESignificant
- Sui Campaign Against Goguryeo (First)598–599 CERegional · 200K dead
- Goguryeo–Wei War244–245 CERegional
- Goguryeo–Yan Wars342 CERegional
Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 37 BCE and fits the map to these borders.
Cite as: Goguryeo Kingdom (37 BCE – 668 CE). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/goguryeo-kingdom · Sources & methodology