List of political entities in the 4th century BC explained

See main article: List of pre-modern states.

See also: List of Classical Age states. This is a list of sovereign states or polities that existed in the 4th century BC.

Sovereign states

Sovereign state	Years
Achaemenid Empire	550 - 330 BC
Adena culture	1000 - 200 BC
Albania	4th century BC - 8th century AD
Ammon	c.10th century - 332 BC
Athens	510 - 322 BC
Atropatene	320s BC - 3rd century AD
Bithynia	297 - 74 BC
Carthaginian Empire	650 - 146 BC
Chavín culture	900 - 200 BC
Chera Kingdom	5th century BC - AD 1102
Chola	3rd century BC -AD 13th century
Chorrera	1800 - 300 BC
Chu	1030 - 223 BC
Corinth	700 - 338 BC
Cyrene	631 - 525 BC
Dʿmt	c.980 - c.400 BC
Dardanian Kingdom	c.448 BC – 28 BC
Gojoseon	2333 - 108 BC
Han	403 - 230 BC
Iberia	302 BC - 580 AD
Kalinga	1376 - 285 BC
Kush	1070 BC - 350 AD
Lu	856 - 256 BC
Lycaonia	8th century - 200 BC
Macedonia	8th century - 146 BC
Maya civilization	2000 BC- 900 AD
Meroë	542 BC - 4th century AD
Nanda Empire	424 - 321 BC
Olmec	1400 - 400 BC
Pandya	4th century BC-1650 AD
Paracas culture	600 - 175 BC
Ptolemaic Kingdom	305 - 30 BC
Qi	1046 - 241 BC
Qin	845 - 221 BC
Roman Republic	509 - 27 BC
Saba	12th/8th century BC - 275 AD
Scythia	8th century BC - 2nd century AD
Seleucid Empire	312 - 63 BC
Sparta	11th century - 195 BC
Taranto	706 BC - 1465 AD
Thebes	14th century BC - 1458 AD
Văn Lang	2879 - 258 BC
Wei	403 - 225 BC
Yan	865 - 222 BC
Yue	334 - 334 BC
Zheng	806 - 375 BC
Zhoa	403 - 222 BC
Zhou	1045 - 256 BC

See also

• List of Bronze Age states
• List of Iron Age states
• List of Classical Age states
• List of states during Late Antiquity
• List of states during the Middle Ages