Free Download Age Of Empires 3 PC Game also includes eight strong empires that are Spanish, British, French, Portuguese, Russian, Dutch, German and the famous Ottoman Empire. Players can also continue to play the Vikings Age, which is indeed another great age in Free Download Age Of Empires 3 PC Game. The following is a list of the largest empires in world history. Rein Taagepera has defined an empire as 'any relatively large sovereign political entity whose components are not sovereign' and its size as the area over which the empire has some undisputed military and taxation prerogatives, and these are the definitions used by this list.

The following is a list of the largest empires in world history. Rein Taagepera has defined an empire as 'any relatively large sovereign political entity whose components are not sovereign' and its size as the area over which the empire has some undisputed military and taxation prerogatives,^[1] and these are the definitions used by this list.

• 1Largest empires by land area
• 2See also

Largest empires by land area

For context, the land area of the Earth, excluding Antarctica, is 134,740,000 km² (52,023,000 sq mi).^[2]

Empires at their greatest extent

Empire size in this list is defined as the dry land area it controls. Where estimates vary, entries are sorted by the lowest estimate. The British Empire is the largest empire by total size, though its constituent units are discontinuous across oceans, whilst the Mongolian Empire is the largest contiguous empire, being one entity in Eurasia.

Timeline of largest empires to date

The earliest empire which can with certainty be stated to have been larger than all previous empires was that of Upper and Lower Egypt, which tenfolded the area of the previous largest civilisation.^[20]

Timeline of largest empires at the time

See also

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By region

By size

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By population

By economy

Notes and references

1. ^Taagepera, Rein (1979). 'Size and Duration of Empires: Growth-Decline Curves, 600 B.C. to 600 A.D.'. Social Science History. 3 (3/4): 117. doi:10.2307/1170959. JSTOR1170959.
2. ^'The World Factbook'. Central Intelligence Agency. Archived from the original on 5 January 2010. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
3. ^ ^{abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzaaabacadaeafagahaiajakalamanaoapaqarasatauavawaxayazbabbbcbdbebfbgbhbibjbkblbmbnbobpbqbrbsbtbubvbwbxbybzcacbcccdcecfcgchcicjckclcmcncocpcqcrcsctcucvcwcxcyczdadbdcdddedfdgdhdidjdkdldmdndodpdq}Rein Taagepera (September 1997). 'Expansion and Contraction Patterns of Large Polities: Context for Russia'. International Studies Quarterly. 41 (3): 492–502. doi:10.1111/0020-8833.00053. JSTOR2600793. Archived from the original on 17 August 2018. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
4. ^ ^{abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzaaabacadaeafagahaiajakalamanaoapaqarasatauavawaxayazbabbbcbdbebfbgbhbibjbkblbmbnbobpbqbrbsbtbubvbwbxbybzcacbcccdcecfcgchcicjckclcmcncocpcqcrcsctcucvcwcxcyczdadbdcdddedfdgdhdidjdkdldmdndodpdqdr}Turchin, Peter; Adams, Jonathan M.; Hall, Thomas D. (December 2006). 'East-West Orientation of Historical Empires'. Journal of World-Systems Research. 12 (2): 222–223. ISSN1076-156X. Archived from the original on 17 September 2016. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
5. ^ ^abcdefgh宋岩 [Song Yan] (1994). 中国历史上几个朝代的疆域面积估算 [Estimation of Territory Areas of Several Dynasties in Chinese History] (in Chinese). 中国社会科学院. p. 150.
6. ^ ^{abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzaaabacadaeafagahaiajakalamanaoapaqarasatauavawaxayazbabbbcbdbebfbgbhbibjbkblbmbnbobpbqbrbsbtbubvbwbxbybzcacbcccdcecfcgchcicjckclcmcncocpcqcrcsctcucvcwcxcyczdadbdcdddedfdgdhdi}Taagepera, Rein (1979). 'Size and Duration of Empires: Growth-Decline Curves, 600 B.C. to 600 A.D.'. Social Science History. 3 (3/4): 121–122, 124–129, 132–133. doi:10.2307/1170959. JSTOR1170959.
7. ^ ^ab'Área Territorial Brasileira'. www.ibge.gov.br (in Portuguese). Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. Archived from the original on 23 October 2016. Retrieved 16 October 2016. A primeira estimativa oficial para a extensão superficial do território brasileiro data de 1889. O valor de 8.337.218 km² foi obtido a partir de medições e cálculos efetuados sobre as folhas básicas da Carta do Império do Brasil, publicada em 1883. [The first official estimate of the surface area of the Brazilian territory dates from 1889. A value of 8,337,218 km² was obtained from measurements and calculations made on drafts of the Map of the Empire of Brazil, published in 1883.]
8. ^ ^abBarea, María Elvira Roca (10 November 2016). Imperiofobia y leyenda negra: Roma, Rusia, Estados Unidos y el Imperio español (in Spanish). Siruela. pp. 51–52. ISBN9788416854783. Archived from the original on 6 July 2019. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
9. ^ ^abJames, David H. (1 November 2010). The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire. Routledge. ISBN9781136925467. Archived from the original on 6 July 2019. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
10. ^ ^abHarrison, Mark (2000). The Economics of World War II: Six Great Powers in International Comparison. Cambridge University Press. p. 3. ISBN9780521785037. Archived from the original on 16 October 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
11. ^ ^abVV, AA. (2005). Atlante Storico. Cronologia della storia universale - Le Garzantine (in Italian). Garzanti.
12. ^'Encyclopædia Britannica: Germany from 1871 to 1918'. Archived from the original on 11 October 2016. Retrieved 29 September 2016. At its birth Germany occupied an area of 208,825 square miles (540,854 square km) and had a population of more than 41 million, which was to grow to 67 million by 1914.
13. ^ ^ab'Statistische Angaben zu den deutschen Kolonien'. www.dhm.de (in German). Deutsches Historisches Museum. Archived from the original on 10 October 2012. Retrieved 29 September 2016. Sofern nicht anders vermerkt, beziehen sich alle Angaben auf das Jahr 1912. [Except where otherwise noted, all figures relate to the year 1912.]
    • German South-West Africa: 835 100 km²
    • Kamerun: 495 000 km²
    • Togoland: 87 200
    • German East Africa: 995 000
    • German New Guinea: 240 000
    • Marshall Islands: 400
    • Kiautschou: 515
    • Caroline Islands, Palau, and Mariana Islands: 2 376
    • German Samoa: 2 570
14. ^ ^{abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzaaabacadaeafagahaiajakalamanaoapaqarasatauavawaxayazbabbbcbdbebfbgbhbibjbkblbmbnbobp}Taagepera, Rein (1978). 'Size and Duration of Empires: Growth-Decline Curves, 3000 to 600 B.C.'Social Science Research. 7 (2): 182–189. doi:10.1016/0049-089x(78)90010-8. ISSN0049-089X.
15. ^ ^ab'Atlas of Europe in the Middle Ages', Ostrovski, Rome, 1998, page 66
16. ^ ^abEncyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, 'Austria, Lower' to 'Bacon' Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1. Archived from the original on 12 January 2019. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
17. ^ ^{abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzaaabacadaeafagahaiajakalamanaoapaqarasatauavawaxayazbabbbcbdbebfbgbhbibjbkblbmbnbobpbqbrbsbtbubvbwbxbybzcacbcccdcecfcgchcicjckcl}Taagepera, Rein (1978). 'Size and duration of empires: Systematics of size'. Social Science Research. 7 (2): 116–117. doi:10.1016/0049-089X(78)90007-8. ISSN0049-089X. Archived from the original on 4 January 2019. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
18. ^ ^abKamburova, Violeta (1992). Atlas 'History of Bulgaria'. Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. pp. 18, 20, 23.
19. ^ ^abObeng, J. Pashington: 'Asante Catholicism: Religious and Cultural Reproduction Among the Akan of Ghana', p. 20. BRILL, 1996
20. ^Taagepera, Rein (1997). 'Expansion and Contraction Patterns of Large Polities: Context for Russia'. International Studies Quarterly. 41 (3): 480. doi:10.1111/0020-8833.00053. ISSN0020-8833. Archived from the original on 17 August 2018. Retrieved 4 September 2018.