The U.S. has the largest military in the world and it is the wealthiest.------------
Depending on the criteria you use it could be USA, China, or Russia. According to the Composite Index of National Capability, China is the most powerful country in the world as of this year. This is calculated using the following equation:
Is taken as a ratio of the country to the world. The following rations are added together and divided by 6 to get the average ratio.
TPR = total population of country ratio
UPR = urban population of country ratio
ISPR = iron and steel production of country ratio
ECR = primary energy consumption ratio
MER = military expenditure ratio
MPR = military personnel ratio
However, China's massive population aids them in overtaking the U.S with a larger total population, urban population, and military personnel. Also the U.S does not produce as much iron and steel as it used to, it imports. USA wins in the military expenditure, primary energy consumption areas.
Great Britain was the most powerful country because, thanks to his empire, had the availability of important mineral resources, ruled over millions of subjects and controlled a large part of world trade, due to its fleet, which was the world's most powerful.
Spain, they became the most powerful country in Europe in the 16th Century as they were first to discover the Western Hemisphere and the Pacific Ocean. They rapidly capitalized on this new discovery, and through there conquest of almost the whole of Central and South America, they conquered the two most wealthy and powerful empires in the Americas; the Aztec and the Inca.
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland were the most powerful. They had the largest GDP in the world, a huge industry and the largest Empire in world History
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Many believe that running the world's most powerful country makes the president the most powerful person in the world.
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Great, or powerful, countries have great, or powerful, armies in order to keep their power. Military power is usually used to exercise one's power in either defensive and/or offensive terms. However, economic power also ties into being a powerful country. For example, the US has the world's most powerful army and the world's largest economy, and is the reason why the US is the world's most powerful country as a whole. However, although North Korea has the world's largest army, its economy is terrible, and this is one reason why North Korea is not such a powerful or influential country in the world.
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Yes, at that times, France was, with Britain and Spain, the most powerful country in the world.
Great Britain was the most powerful country because, thanks to his empire, had the availability of important mineral resources, ruled over millions of subjects and controlled a large part of world trade, due to its fleet, which was the world's most powerful.
At the moment the most powerful country is America,the 3'rd most powerful country is Russia.
The European Union is the second most powerful entity in the world after the US. Although not technically a country, the EU holds the potential to be a superpower and is even more powerful than China. The EU is expected to fuse as one country someday and its also not expected to be surpassed as the second most powerful country.
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