The Western Zhou Dynasty rose in the Wei River Basin of Shaanxi Province. After the abolition of the Shang Dynasty, it occupied a large area in the East and established a huge slavery country from the sea in the east to Qiang Rong in the west, to Guifang in the north and to Jingchu in the south.
The territory ruled by the strong and prosperous Xia Dynasty roughly started from the west of Henan Province and the south of Shanxi Province; East to the border between Henan Province and Shandong Province; North to Hebei Province; It connects Hunan Province to the south. It is 700 kilometers long from east to west and 600 kilometers wide from north to south, covering an area of about 500000 square kilometers. The area is not very large, and it cannot be compared with the unified dynasty of later generations, but it may be the largest independent Dynasty in the world about 4000 years ago.
