# Map of the Song dynasty

Source page: https://geographichistory.app/empire/song-dynasty/

On the Geographic History map, the Song dynasty appears from AD 961 to 1279. It reaches its largest mapped extent in AD 980: about 2.9 million km² across 82 provinces.

The Song dynasty reunited most of China in 960, after the era of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. It is known for its large commercial cities, paper money, printing, gunpowder weapons and a government staffed through civil service examinations. It lost the north to the Jurchen Jin in 1127 and ruled from Hangzhou as the Southern Song until the Mongols completed their conquest in 1279.

## Mapped area by year (km²)

- AD 961: 1,152,000
- AD 976: 2,713,000
- AD 991: 2,887,000
- 1006: 2,887,000
- 1021: 2,887,000
- 1036: 2,887,000
- 1051: 2,887,000
- 1066: 2,887,000
- 1081: 2,887,000
- 1096: 2,887,000
- 1111: 2,887,000
- 1126: 2,887,000
- 1141: 1,989,000
- 1156: 1,989,000
- 1171: 1,989,000
- 1186: 1,989,000
- 1201: 1,989,000
- 1216: 1,989,000
- 1231: 1,989,000
- 1246: 1,989,000
- 1261: 2,033,000
- 1276: 2,033,000

## 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.