China has a history of 5,000 years, which dynasty has the largest land area?

In ancient Chinese history, almost all dynasties worked hard to expand their land area. For example, Qin Shi Huang.

The Qin Dynasty was established, in 214 BC in Nanping Baiyue, and included present-day Guangxi, Guangdong and other places into the territory of the Central Plains Dynasty. Another example is the Western Han Dynasty.

Incorporate the Western Regions into your own territory. So, the question is, which dynasty had the most extensive territory in ancient Chinese history? In this regard, the first reaction of many friends may be the Tang Dynasty, after all, in history, the Tang Dynasty was a very powerful country.

So, was the Tang Dynasty the largest land area in Chinese history?

First of all, in ancient Chinese history, the Tang Dynasty can be called the largest of the Han dynasties. However, if there is no such qualification, that is, the area of the Tang Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty.

Compared to the Qing Dynasty, it was a little smaller. As far as the Tang Dynasty is concerned, the historical span is from 618 AD to 907 AD, and in this nearly 300-year history, the territory of the Tang Dynasty has been constantly changing. Among them, the smallest period of the Tang Dynasty was Tang Xuanzong Li Longji.

During the reign of this emperor, because of the Anshi Rebellion.

and other factors, prompting the Tang Dynasty at that time to cover an area of only 10,000 square kilometers.

Correspondingly, the period when the Tang Dynasty had the largest area was not during the reign of Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, but during the reign of Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, with an area of 10,000 square kilometers. Tang Gaozong Li Zhi.

During his reign, this emperor successively destroyed the Western Turks (657), Baekje (660), and Goguryeo.

668), on this basis, the territory of the Tang Dynasty came to its most prosperous historical stage. However, in terms of the Qing Dynasty after the Tang Dynasty, the latter's land area was 10,000 square kilometers, that is, it surpassed the Tang Dynasty's 10,000 square kilometers, ranking second in ancient Chinese history.

Finally, as far as the first place of the Yuan Dynasty is concerned, the territory area reached 10,000 square kilometers. It is worth noting that this was the Yuan Dynasty and the Mongol Empire.

It cannot be equated that the Yuan Dynasty was only a part of the Mongol Empire, which had an area of a staggering 33 million square kilometers. As a result, for the various dynasties in ancient Chinese history, the three dynasties with the largest land area were the Yuan Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty. After that, the area of the three dynasties of the Western Han, Eastern Han and Western Jin dynasties was between 6 million and 7 million square kilometers, as for the smallest dynasty, the Northern Song Dynasty.

Its territory covers an area of only 10,000 square kilometers, which is about a quarter of the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

It was the Yuan Dynasty, and the territory of the Yuan Dynasty was the largest in China for 5,000 years, and the territory at that time was even larger than the territory of Russia today.

During the Yuan Dynasty, the country was the largest, because Genghis Khan had already incorporated a large part of Europe into China's territory.

The largest area in Chinese history was the Yuan Dynasty, with an area of 13.72 million square kilometers, and if the northern frontier extended to the Arctic Ocean, it would have 22.67 million square kilometers.

After the unification of Mongolia and Yuan, the territory was as follows: from the Sea of Japan in the east, to the Tianshan Mountains in the west, to Lake Baikal in the north, to the South China Sea in the south, to the present-day Nanhai Zhudao and Penghu Islands in the southeast, to the present-day Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and northern Myanmar in the southwest, to the Junggar Basin and the Irtysh River in the northwest, and to the Trans-Khingan Mountains (including Sakhalin Island) and the Sea of Okhotsk in the northeast.

During its three-hundred years of rule, the Ming Dynasty expanded to the largest area in its history, encompassing most of China. During the Ming Dynasty, the regime was stable, the economy was prosperous, the country was strong, and there were significant developments in military, culture, science and technology. The political, military, economic, and cultural achievements of the Ming Dynasty all contributed greatly to the prosperity and development of Chinese history.