# Map of the Maurya Empire

Source page: https://geographichistory.app/empire/maurya-empire/

On the Geographic History map, the Maurya Empire appears from 322 BC to 185 BC. It reaches its largest mapped extent in 187 BC: about 3.5 million km² across 127 provinces.

Chandragupta Maurya founded the Maurya Empire around 322 BC, with its capital at Pataliputra, and under his grandson Ashoka it covered almost all of the Indian subcontinent. After the bloody conquest of Kalinga, Ashoka turned to Buddhism and had his edicts carved on rocks and pillars across the empire. The dynasty ended in 185 BC, when the general Pushyamitra Shunga killed the last Mauryan king.

## Mapped area by year (km²)

- 322 BC: 858,000
- 317 BC: 2,905,000
- 312 BC: 2,864,000
- 307 BC: 2,864,000
- 302 BC: 3,321,000
- 297 BC: 3,321,000
- 292 BC: 3,321,000
- 287 BC: 3,321,000
- 282 BC: 3,321,000
- 277 BC: 3,286,000
- 272 BC: 3,286,000
- 267 BC: 3,286,000
- 262 BC: 3,335,000
- 257 BC: 3,335,000
- 252 BC: 3,380,000
- 247 BC: 3,401,000
- 242 BC: 3,401,000
- 237 BC: 3,401,000
- 232 BC: 3,401,000
- 227 BC: 3,401,000
- 222 BC: 3,359,000
- 217 BC: 3,359,000
- 212 BC: 3,359,000
- 207 BC: 3,359,000
- 202 BC: 3,359,000
- 197 BC: 3,208,000
- 192 BC: 3,208,000
- 187 BC: 3,496,000
- 185 BC: 3,496,000

## About this map

Territory comes from the Chronas historical dataset used by the Geographic History app. Areas are approximate, computed from about 2,400 province shapes, and describe this map rather than official historical figures - border data for the ancient and medieval world is necessarily a reconstruction.