100 Largest Empires in History 

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Doesn't include Napoleon's French Empire but counts the USA as an "empire". Okay... Edit: Whoa...this blew up more than I thought it would. 1yr later I get a random message about a comment on this video and I suddenly find 13k likes and 500comments

The spanish, russian and mongol empires were at one point bigger than whats shown here The spanish empire had colonies in europe and their american colonies extended from the tip of south america all the way to canada The russian empire extended from finland to alaska, making it bigger than the USSR The mongol empire shown in the video is smaller than the russian empire. The mongol empire at its peak had way more russian territory and also had some territory that was later part of the qing empire.

The Brazilian Empire actually kept Uruguay as one of its "states" (quoted due to uncertainty), but when Brazil fought Argentina for it, Uruguay "accidentally" became independent

Mongol Empire: I am the biggest empire in history random island that like tea: actually...

Any random island: *exists* UK: "is for me?"

Indians: Where is my great great grandfather MYTHICAL Vikraditmiya Empire 😭😭

I'm impressed that you've included Xiongnu Empire, Rouran Khaganate, and Gokturk Khaganate. But you've shown the Xiongnu Empire at almost half of its size.

Mongols: *Annexed a whole continent in less then a century* Britain: *Owned a large portion of the world at one point* Rome: *Had one big army to protect a big kingdom* Spaniards: *Colonized the new world* France: *Single Handedly took down a continent with a stumpy general* China: *Keeps coming back* Brazil: *Brazil*

Some random Rock in the ocean:*peacefully exists* The British Empire: *M I N E*

Why Indians are not crying in comment section?🤣

Informative, nuanced and amazing narration. Keep up the amazing work! 💗🤞✨

0:10 Akkadian Empire (2240 BC) 0:12 Visigothic Kingdom (476) 0:14 Caliphate of Cōrdoba (1000) 0:16 Khmer Empire (1240) 0:19 Austro-Hungarian Empire (1905) 0:21 Hyksos (1650 BC) 0:23 Bulgarian Empire (927) 0:26 Srivijayan Empire (1200) 0:28 Empire of Harsha (625) 0:30 Neo-Babylonian Empire (562 BC) 0:32 Songhai Empire (1550) 0:35 Chu (300 BC) 0:37 Avar Khaganate (600) 0:40 Majapahit Empire (1350) 0:44 Mali Empire (1380) 0:47 Assyrian Empire (670 BC) 0:49 Zhou Dynasty (900 BC) 0:51 Chola Empire (1030) 0:53 Holy Roman Empire (1050) 0:56 Apmohad Caliphate (1200) 0:58 Burmese Empire (1580) 1:01 Kalmar Union (1400) 1:03 Kush Empiee (700 BC) 1:05 Indo-Greek Kingdom (150 BC) 1:07 Ethiopian Empire (1950) 1:10 Buyid Dynasty (980) 1:12 Shang Dynasty (1122 BC) 1:15 Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1480) 1:17 Pratihara Empire (860) 1:19 Swedish Empire (1658) 1:21 Ayyubid Sultanate (1200) 1:24 Khitan Empire (1210) 1:26 Frankish Empire (814) 1:28 Inca Empire (1527) 1:30 Maratha Empire (1760) 1:33 Fatimid Caliphate (969) 1:36 Nanda Empire (325 BC) 1:38 Gupta Empire (440) 1:40 Sasanian Empire (550) 1:42 Ghurid Dynasty (1200) 1:45 Almoeavid Dynasty (1120) 1:47 Hunnic Empire (441) 1:49 Median Empire (585 BC) 1:52 Ancient Egypt (1450 BC) 1:54 Saffarid Dynasty (900) 1:57 Mamluk Sultanate (1300) 1:59 Dutch Empire (1930) 2:01 Kievan Rus (1000) 2:03 Qajar Dynasty (1800) 2:05 Ilkhanate (1310) 2:08 Kushan Empire (200) 2:10 Delhi Sultanate (1333) 2:12 Belgian Empire (1956) 2:15 Gran Colombia (1819) 2:17 Song Dynasty (980) 2:19 Hephthalie Empire (470) 2:22 Liao Empire (947) 2:24 Parthian Empire (50 BC) 2:26 Samanid Empire (928) 2:29 Khawarazmian Empire (1210) 2:31 Jin Dynasty (280) 2:34 German Empire (1912) 2:36 Ming Dynasty (1450) 2:38 Han Dynasty (100) 2:40 Safavid Empire (1629) 2:42 Mauryan Empire (261 BC) 2:45 Ghaznavid Empire (1209) 2:47 Seleucid Empire (301 BC) 2:49 Seljuk Empire (1080) 2:52 Byzantine Empire (555) 2:54 Uyghur Khaganate (800) 2:57 Tang Dynasty (715) 3:00 Italian Empire (1938) 3:01 Rouran Khaganate (405) 3:04 Chagatai Khanate (1310) 3:06 Mughal Empire (1690) 3:08 Tibetan Empire (800) 3:11 Xiongnu Empire (176 BC) 3:13 Nazi Germany (1942) 3:15 Ottoman Empire (1683) 3:17 Timurid Empire (1405) 3:20 Mexican Empire (1824) 3:23 Roman Empire (117) 3:25 Golden Horde (1310) 3:28 Macedonian Empire (323 BC) 3:31 Achaemenid Empire (500 BC) 3:32 Göktürk Khaganate (557) 3:35 Empire of Japan (1942) 3:37 Brazilian Empire (1889) 3:40 Portuguese Empire (1820) 3:42 United States (1899) 3:45 Yuan Dynasty (1310) 3:48 Islamic Caliphate (730) 3:50 French Empire (1920) 3:52 Qing Dynasty (1820) 3:55 Spanish Empire (1810) 3:58 Russian Empire (1895) 4:04 Mongol Empire (1310) 4:09 British Empire (1920) This is just a timelapse But if I forgor other one........................you can put the timelapse at comment

First of all, you forgot about alaska, second, you forgot napoleon Napoleon: *triggered*

Indians be like : diD yUo KNoW VikaramIdityA hAd tHe EnTIre GalAxY?

Very well edited video

British Empire was so huge, that it had a continent for its prison lol

Imagine how hard is Persian History School exams

Indian kids: WhErE iS vIkRaMoDiTyA eMpIrE?🤓😡😭

apart from the video being a bit quick so that next time i may well have to pause now and again to remember it all i really think that this video was one of the best factual videos that i`ve have ever seen.

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Do you want to visit United kingdom ? 30% of the earth: "I live there"

Turkic Empires: 0:37 Avar Khaganate 1:47 Hunnic Empire 1:57 Mamluk Sultanate 2:03 Qajar Dynasty 2:10 Delhi Sultanate 2:29 Khawarazmian Empire 2:40 Safavid Empire 2:45 Ghaznavid Empire 2:49 Seljuk Empire 2:54 Uyghur Khaganate 3:06 Mughal Empire 3:11 Xiongnu Empire 3:15 Ottoman Empire 3:17 Timurid Empire 3:25 Golden Horde 3:32 Göktürk Khaganate

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Brazil: I´m a giant south american. Portugal: Like father like son.

Forgot to add Alaska in the Russian empire

Amazing song used, and an amazing video

Meanwhile pajiets waiting for ViKrAmAdiTyA:

Rome - Rome Byzantium - Eastern Rome Russia - Third Rome Ottomans - Islamic Rome The U.S. - New Rome Soviet Union - Red Rome

Imagine being known as the biggest empire in the world, having colonies everywhere, influencing the life of millions, spreading your language everywhere, being a military and economical super power. And now you are just known as Brexit.

If this is showing the year of an empire at its largest extent, then the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was at its largest in 1619, not 1480. There was a personal union between the two countries since 1385, but it didn’t become a single state until 1569 which lasted to 1795.

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How much of the world do you want? British: yes

2:59 this is daniel. 3:23 this is the cooler daniel

Cottereau, Nice video. you could put The square mile/km at The bottom left

I love Saudi Arabia, empire and I live in Saudi Arabia🇸🇦❤️😍

Number 1: the United Solar System of Sealand

3:58 I found a mistake, Alaska was russian too

Indian kids after lockdown after pass through Whatsapp University : where's our myth cover whole the Asia country.

Where do you get the maps from?

You forgot about Alaska as part of the Russian Empire.

Small island in the middle of nowhere Britain: MINE!

It is curious that the maximum extension of the Spanish Empire is not used, it was in 1803, when it included Spanish Lousiana of 2,275,940 km². In that year the territory was ceded to France. The Spanish Empire at the time of its maximum extension (1802) covered 17,265,636 km².

Is this a size rating? Because it has many mistakes and lacks many empires, or is it classified according to the power of history? Because it also contains many bugs and imperfect empires

Russia: The rulers of the snow Mongol: The people who took over China British: The people who don't care how small the island is, they take it anyway.

Land: exists British Empire: Hippity hoppity that's my property

Chola was even bigger than what you have mentioned. I wonder why most of the people do this mistake.

I just expected the comments to say "wHerE thE HecK is vIkRam's EMpire It is Largest" nor "the U.S. is not an empire" nor "wHerE is Fr**ch n*PoleON EmPirE", I gonna answer those questions based on my language dialect and analysis. First, the reason why the U.S. and Rome (at some point Rome is a republic) is included because uhh just read the description! Not all empires are monarchs, and is based on the country's "imperial" behaviour. Second, the creator of this video based this on the empire's greatest extent, so probably it is the reason why N*pole*nic Empire is not included and Fr**ch Empire is included. That did not answer the Chinese dynasties though, I'm not 100% sure, it's up to the creator of this video.. IDK OKAY Third, to get an empire listed, you will need a strong clue of the nation's existence. That's why: - Chalukya dynasty - Vikramaditya of Ujjain's empire - Tartary (alias Tartarian Empire nor the Breatherians nor the Ancient Siberia) - Lycidia - Great Central Germany ..are not included. Sorry if this makes you mad or not, but you need strong clues, so don't blame some random tiny circles in Algeria for that. Nations with borders still debated (e.g. Kingdom od the Yandale) are usually only include known borders, like Majapahit Empire. It has been said that Majapahit reached Cambodia and modern-day Champa but the borders are still debated, so whenever you wanna see the Majapahit's greatest extent, it did not include Cambodia and Champa. Correct me if I'm wrong, and sorry for bad grammar

Piece of Earth: 'exists' British: *MINE*

But you forgot the almighty Empire of Liechtenstein...

uh, First French empire where? and small mistake at 3:38, the Brazilian empire had modern day Uruguay, the Portugese empire didn't

The Vikings also had the North Sea Union which was England , Denmark and Norway between 1013 and 1042.

Ahh yes the Holy Roman Empire. The country that wasn't Holy, wasn't Roman, and wasn't an Empire

The thing is everyone knows who #1 is before we even start

Indian kid's coment about a fake empire(vikram) I know indian empire not in top 20 list.. I think out of rank😂🤣🤣. So sad... That's why they try to promote fake empire... Plesse continue

i mean, you did miss a few empires that should have been listed. Aztec Empire and Roman Empire. Although, it was kind of messy if you don't do a timeline when along with where.

British Noble: Where do plan to colonize? King of Great Britain: *yes*

Any country that is not in Europe: *Exists* British Empire: Its a free estate

Very interesting ! Which Islamic Caliphate was bigger between Umayyad (730) and Abbassid (about 100 years later) ?

Finally someone who informs and put Spanish empire as the 4th

McDonald's Empire: Whole map red

Random person: Hey, I live on the small island of sand in the middle of nowhere! *British Empire wants to know your location*

Map is not to scale. That's why it might seem weird that some empires appear larger but are smaller. The more North the country the smaller it actually is, while the southern equator are more to scale. Basically the empires that control the global south will have the most land or British empire. & it would take almost 2 Soviet unions to be the size of the British empire

This video teaches us why we are talking in English

Everyone in the comments: "Republics can't be empires" Republican Rome: "Am I a joke to you?"

You cant deny that Turkey, China, India, and Spain had a lot of empires in them

Endians : wHeRe iS ViKrAmadiTyA eMpiRe 😭😭

The Spanish Empire was much larger than shown. In fact, it reached its peak in the 1790s.

lots of them should not be considered as “empire”

O império português foi o primeiro império global da história a ter possessões em todos os continentes habitáveis.

"Some" parts of Portuguese Empire are missing.such as territory linking Angola to Moçambique before British ultimatum in XIX c., Cabo Verde, São Tomé e Príncipe archipelagos, Guiné Bissau and part of Equatorial, parts of South Africa (XVc.-...), Goa, Diu, Damão and..., Malaca (Malaysia), Tristão da Cunha, Indo isles (Molucas, Flores, East Timor..)prob more... Ormuz, Socotorá(socotra) Madeira and Açores (actual Portugal) .... Felipes...it was called Iberian Union...there were 3 successors in line before Felipe II of Spain... Catarina de Portugal, D. Teodósio of Bragança, a teenager and D. António (Prior do Crato).. Felipe had succession rights as grandson of a portuguese King. That's when Portugal downfall begins, governed by Felipes of Habsburg. Only by title was Portugal part of Spain... D. António was appointed as King and ruled for three yrs before Filipe. First three in line to succession had no descendants to take the throne. Our King was lost in Morocco 5? yrs previous to Filipe, at the age of 19-20 yrs old leaving no sons. Don't forget Sri Lanka (Ceilão). Capital Colombo founded by portuguese... Not to mention many others where pt did not establish

The Spanish empire is missing some territories

The fact that Brazil is bigger than Rome..

The peak of the Spanish Empire was when Felipe II of Austria claimed Portugal territories , making Spain had Spanish and Portugal territories at once

Still boggles my mind that a little island could have a world-spanning empire.

Roman Empire the only one that lasted for more than 1200 years, goat

u forgot Russian Empire was alaska in america

Me just patiently waiting for Toungoo Dynasty to show up:

One point for each empire you're familiar with

I can't even imagine how hard Egyptian history school exams.

God: "So how many empires do you want in Iran?" Asia: *yes*

Australia just chilling till the end

Awesome

"The sun never sets on the British empire because god doesn't trust them in the dark."

2:50 It’s a bird, it’s a plane! _IT’S THE SELJUK TURKS!_

The ERE and the Seleucid Empire are the most underrated Empires ever.

Huge respect for not adding ViKrAmAdITyA empire

Mongol Empire: No one can be bigger than me British Empire: *Hold my tea*

Would like to see this list again but in chronological order. I think it would be interesting to see where empires were being made at different points in history.

Aghlabid Dynasty? Bengal Sultanate? Mysore Kingdom? Saadi Sultanate? Kara-khanid Khanate? Moghulistan?

at 1:20 , Swedish Empire used to rule a part of north east USA, specifically New York

British Empire be like: *Paint paint paint all over the map*

You didn't include alaska in the russian empire. :(

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España a formado parte de muchos imperios 😮 pais con mucha cultura e Historia

British Empire: I rule the world! UK: I used to rule the world!

A small island in god knows where: exists Britain: I want it

Empire of Japan - you mean Imperial Japan - should also include peninsula Malaysia (Malaya), which you missed.

A way of improving this - show the empires on a Behrmann Projection - would reflect the true extent of an empire vs land Mercator is way out of scale To give an idea - from the Persian Gulf to the top of the Caspian Sea is 1/2 way upto the Arctic shores of Russia at the top

Mongols: We founded largest empire in the world British: Hold my tea