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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 ...
The largest rainforest in the world. Achaemenid Empire: 5,500,000: An empire in Iran and other countries from Greece and Egypt to Uzbekistan from 550–330 BC. Size at greatest extent in 500 BC. Portuguese Empire: 5,500,000: The Portuguese overseas empire at its greatest extent in 1820. [3] Western China: 5,478,097
Dymaxion map of the world with the 30 largest countries and territories by area. This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies by land, water, and total area, ranked by total area. The entries in this list include, but are not limited to, those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which includes sovereign states and dependent territories.
By this point in 1920 the British empire had grown to become the largest empire in history, controlling approximately 25% of the world's land surface and 25% of the world's population. [103] It covered about 36.6 million km 2 (14.1 million sq mi). Because of its magnitude, it was often referred to as "the empire on which the sun never sets". [106]
Ethiopian Empire (1270–1974) Sultanate of Zanzibar (1856–1964) Central African Empire (1976–1979) The Americas. First Empire of Haiti (1804–1806) Kingdom of Haiti (1811–1820) United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves (1815–1822) First Mexican Empire (1821–1823) Empire of Brazil (1822–1889) Second Empire of Haiti (1849 ...
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 ]
The Achaemenid Empire was the first of the Persian Empires to become a world empire. At the height of its power, the Empire spanned over three continents, namely Europe, Asia, and Africa, and was the most powerful empire of its time.