How much territory did the Ming Dynasty have, and how big was the territory of the Ming Empire?

During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, the land area was about 10 million square kilometers.

According to the "History of the Ming Dynasty Sixteenth Chronicle", it is recorded: "At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, it was from North Korea in the east, according to Tibet in the west, and Annan in the south, and from the moraine in the north, 11,750 miles from east to west, and 10,904 miles from north to south. Since Chengzu abandoned Daning, migrated to the east, Xuanzong moved to Kaiping in the monolith, Shizong abandoned Hami and Hetao again, then the east from Liaohai, west to Jiayu, south to Qiong, Ya, north to Yun, Shuo, east and west more than 10,000 miles, north and south thousands of miles.

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Map of the territory of the early Ming Dynasty:

During the heyday of the Ming Dynasty, Yongle --- Xuande were the largest, about 1100w, and gradually shrank later. Since Jiajing, the territory has shrunk dramatically, and the north, northwest, southwest, and northeast have shrunk greatlyAt the time of its demise, it was only about 350w.

Who said 3 million, the territory area of the Ming Dynasty reached more than 16 million, and today's Outer Mongolia and South Korea are its territories.

It shows that the dynasty is only 300w that is 1645 The Ming Dynasty Beijing ** fell only half of the country, it controlled nearly 1000w in its heyday The Qing Dynasty 1300w is the land controlled in its heyday, if compared with the Qing Dynasty before its demise in 1911 ** The Qing Dynasty can only control the territory of Beizhili, that is, Hebei and Tianjin Yuan Shikai, who controls Tianjin, is still superficially obedient and actually ready to usurp the throne. Then compare the fall of the Ming Dynasty to control 3 million, and the fall of the Manchu Qing to control 300,000.

Hello. The largest territory of the Ming Dynasty during the Ming Dynasty (1424) Before Jiajing, the territory of the Ming Dynasty was roughly "from Korea in the east, Tufan in the west, Baoan in the south, and Damoi in the north, 11,750 miles from east to west, and 10,904 miles from north to south." "11 million square kilometers.

The South China Sea's "thousands of miles of Changsha, thousands of miles of stone ponds" are all on the map. His voice is taught to pay tribute when he is old, not to be ordered to be registered, and those who are bound by Hou Wei are not counted here. Woohoo!

History of the Ming Dynasty and Geographical Chronicles).

The Ming Dynasty had 12 million territories at the peak of its ancestors, of course, there is also a saying that it is 10 million territories, which is controversial, but 10 million territories, there are still some, but the Ming Dynasty is different from the Qing Dynasty since Shunzhi became a national regime, after Shunzhi, Kangxi, Yongzheng, to the late Qianlong period to reach the peak of the territory, the Ming Dynasty reached its peak in the period of the third emperor Chengzu, and then with the decline of the country, the shrinkage of power gave up a lot of border places, By the time of Emperor Jiajing, it had obviously shrunk a lot, and by the end of the Ming Dynasty, only three or four million core territories of the traditional Han land remained, which is one of the reasons why many people talk about comparing the territory of the late Ming Dynasty with the peak territory of the middle of the Qing Dynasty.

The territory of the Ming Dynasty included the Han Dynasty, reaching the Sea of Japan in the northeast and the Khingan Mountains in the outer Khing'an Mountains, and later shrunk into the Liao River Valley; north to the Gobi Desert, and then retreat to the Ming Great Wall; northwest to Hami, Xinjiang, and then retreated to Jiayuguan; It borders the Bay of Bengal in the southwest, and then turns back to about present-day Yunnan; And in the Qinghai-Tibet region set up a detention guard, but also recovered Annam, the Ming Dynasty was extremely prosperous land area of about 10 million square kilometers.

That's roughly more than 5 million square kilometers.

The territory of the Ming Dynasty was 9.97 million square kilometers.

The Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) was the last unified dynasty established by the Han in Chinese history, with a total of 12 generations, 16 emperors, and 276 years of reign.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the people were struggling to make a living, and the Red Turban Uprising broke out, and Zhu Yuanzhang joined Guo Zixing's team. In 1364, Zhu Yuanzhang was called King of Wu and established Western Wu. In 1368, Zhu Yuanzhang was called the emperor, and the country name was Daming, because the royal family surname Zhu, also known as Zhu Ming, was set in Yingtianfu; In 1420, Zhu Di moved the capital to Shuntianfu, with Yingtianfu as the accompanying capital.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, after the rule of Hongwu, the prosperity of Yongle, the rule of Renxuan, etc., the politics were clear and the national strength was strong. In the middle of the civil engineering changes from prosperity to decline, and then through the Hongzhi Zhongxing, Jiajing Zhongxing, Wanli Zhongxing revival of the national momentum, the late Ming Dynasty due to the Donglin party struggle and natural disasters led to the decline of national strength, the outbreak of the late Ming Dynasty peasant uprising. In 1644, Li Zicheng invaded Beijing, and Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself.

The Ming Dynasty established the Southern Ming Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River, and then the Qing Dynasty took advantage of the chaos to enter the customs and defeated the Dashun, Daxi, Southern Ming Hongguang, Longwu, Shaowu and other regimes; In 1662, Emperor Yongli was killed, and the Southern Ming Dynasty perished. In 1683, the Qing army captured Taiwan, and the Ming Zheng of Feng Ming Zhengshuo came to an end.

The territory of the Ming Dynasty included the scope of the Han Dynasty, and in the early years, the tribes in the northeast reached the Sea of Japan, the Outer Xing'an Mountains, and the Heilongjiang River basin had suzerainty sovereignty, and later shrunk to the Liao River Basin; In the early years, it reached the Gobi Desert in the north, and then withdrew to the Great Wall; northwest to Hami, Xinjiang, and then retreated to Jiayuguan; It also used to have detention and guards on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Northeast China (including the Outer Northeast), and eastern Xinjiang. Ming Chengzu once recovered Annan, and the Ming Dynasty was extremely prosperous, with a land area of about 10 million square kilometers.

When the territory of the Ming Dynasty was the largest, the Northeast region included the three northeastern provinces, the eastern part of Mongolia, and the eastern Siberian region of Russia, although there were almost no people living in some places, and the time of jurisdiction was not long, you can compare today's map of Asia, see how big this land is, after calculation, it is about 4 million square kilometers more than the northeast when the territory of the Qing Dynasty was the largest, in general, according to the actual situation of the largest territory should be larger than the Qing Dynasty.