Yes. The Achaemenid Persian Empire at its height and the 48-States Continental United States are both roughly 8 million square kilometers.
The Persian Empie at its height was roughly the same size as the continental United States.
Very large - multi-continental.
At its largest extent, the Persian Empire reached the river Indus (in present day Pakistan). This was not always the eastern border as the size of the empire varied. Save
The Persian Empire stretched from Libya to Central Asia. The Greek world stretched from Western Europe to Asia Minor.
King Darius I (the Great) 522-486 BCE.
A Persian Empire existed in various forms from ancient times until the early twentieth century when it was renamed the Empire of Iran. The Empire of Iran was replaced with the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979. At it's greatest extent the Persian Empire under Darius the Great ruled all of modern Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Turkey.
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About 8,000,000,000 square meters, give or take a few.
The main weakness was their size. With such a large territory it was hard to control and protect everyone
It stretched from Libya in the west, through the Middle East and Central Asia, to today's Pakistan in the east.
From Egypt to the middle of Asia . . . about 3,000 miles . . . about the size of the continental U.S.
is a continental sham the same as a king size sham?