States and territories disestablished in the 3rd century BC

dynasty that ruled in China from 221 to 206 BC

The Scythians ( or ) or Scyths (), also known as the Pontic Scythians, were an ancient Eastern Iranic equestrian nomadic people who migrated during the 9th to 8th centuries BC from Central Asia to the Pontic Steppe in modern-day Ukraine and Southern Russia, where they remained until the 3rd century BC.

dynasty of Ancient Chinese kings (王) lasting from c. 1046 to 256 BC

Southern Chinese state (c. 1030–223 BCE) during the Zhou dynasty and Warring States Period

Chinese state from the 9th century BC to 207 BC

ancient state in northern China during the Shang, Zhou, and Warring States periods (11th century BC – 222 BC)

Zhou dynasty Chinese state (1046–221 BCE)

one of the states in ancient China's Warring States period

vassal state during the Zhou Dynasty of ancient China

central Chinese state from 403-230 BCE

ancient Chinese state during the Warring States period

one of the twelve feudal states of Western Zhou dynasty

legendary, semi-mythical period in Vietnamese historiography

former country

Chinese state (c. 1040 BCE–209 BCE)

former country

league of city-states in ancient Greece

Yiqu (; Old Chinese (444 BCE): > Eastern Han Chinese: *, or ), was an ancient Chinese state which existed in the Hetao region and what is now Ningxia, eastern Gansu and northern Shaanxi during the Zhou dynasty, and was a centuries-long western rival of the state of Qin. It was inhabited by a semi-sinicized people called the Rong of Yiqu (), who were regarded as a branch of western Rong people by contemporary writers, whom modern scholars have attempted to identify as one of the ancestors of the minority people in Northwest China.

ancient Chinese state during the Warring States period, vassal of the Zhou dynasty

Chinese state (440-256 BCE)