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The home and colonial areas of the world's empires in 1908, as given by The Harmsworth Atlas and Gazetteer. Empire size in this list is defined as the dry land area it controlled at the time, which may differ considerably from the area it claimed.
Benin Empire: 1180: 1897: 717 Bogd Khanate of Mongolia/Great Mongolian State 1911 1924 7 (broken up from 1915 to 1921) Bornu Empire: 1380: 1893: 513 Empire of Brazil: 1822: 1889: 67 Britannic Empire: 286: 296: 10 British Empire: 1583: 1997: 414 Bruneian Empire: 1368: 1888: 520 Bukhara Empire: 1501: 1785: 284 Bulgarian Empire (Great Bulgaria ...
Encompassing approximately 5.5 million square kilometers at its height in 500 BC, [23] [24] the Achaemenid Empire was territorially the largest empire of antiquity. [ dubious – discuss ] In its time it had political power over neighboring countries, and had high cultural and economic achievements during its lengthy rule over a vast region ...
According to Guinness World Records, the Persian Empire, or Achaemenid Empire, ruled 49.4 million subjects at its peak in 480 B.C. ... the largest empire ever — and 412 million subjects or 23% ...
It was the largest Chinese dynasty and in 1790 the fourth largest empire in world history in terms of territorial size. With a population of 432 million in 1912, it was the world's most populous country at the time. The Qing dynasty also reached its economic peak in 1820, when it became the world's largest economy, and contributing to 30% of ...
From the 16th to the 20th centuries, the British Empire stretched from a total area at its peak in 1920 to over 35,500,000 km 2 (13,700,000 sq mi), the largest empire in the world. [1] In terms of population, on the eve of World War II, Britain and her colonial possessions totaled 500 million inhabitants.
Map of the world showing the extent of the British Empire in 1886. Between 1815 and 1914, a period referred to as Britain's "imperial century" by some historians, [113] around 10 million sq mi (26 million km 2) of territory and roughly 400 million people were added to the British Empire. [114]
Byzantine Empire (500–1050) [3] [4] ... Empires and Political Imagination in World History ... A chronological series of one hundred and twelve maps at successive ...