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= Great Britain and the British Empire! = # British Empire - 36.67 million km2 (1922)[23] # Mongol Empire - 36.0 million km2 (1270 or 1309)[14][3] # Russian Empire - 22.8 million km2 (1895)[14][3] # Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - 22.3 million km2 (1945)[14] # Spanish Empire - 19.425 million km2 (ca. 1740-1790)[25] # Russian Federation - 17.1 million km2 (1991)[14] # Qing Empire, China - 14.7 million km2 (1790)[14][3] # Second French Colonial Empire - 12.3 million km2 (1938)[25] # Umayyad Caliphate - 11.1 million km2 (720 or 750)[14][3] # Yuan Empire, China - 11.0 million km2 (1310)[14

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βˆ™ 9y ago

The largest empires in history include the British Empire and the Achaemenid Empire. The British Empire is considered the largest empire by amount of land, covering 12.82 million square miles. The Achaemenid Empire is considered the largest by population, during the time of the empire it held 44.48% of the entire population of the world, around 50 million people.

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βˆ™ 12y ago

Back around 1600-1900, Britain was the biggest empire as they had control of countries such as India, Canada and Australia. You get the picture.

Although you can compare the Roman Empire to the British Empire.

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The British Empire was the largest Empire in history it conquered a quarter of the world including Canada, New Zealand, Australia, India, quarter of the USA , Half of Africa, some of Antarctica, and other bits of the world. also a quarter of the worlds population where apart of the British Empire. the ruler of British Empire is the United Kingdom or Britain.

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βˆ™ 12y ago

The question is basically meaningless and unanswerable unless you define more precisely what you mean by "greatest." Some candidates, though, would be the Roman, British, and Alexandrian empires.

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βˆ™ 11y ago

The top 15 largest empires by land are:

  1. British Empire. 33.7 million km2
  2. Mongol Empire. 24.0 million km2
  3. Russian Empire. 22.8 million km2
  4. Spanish Empire. 19.42 million km2
  5. Umayyad Caliphate. 15.0 million km2
  6. Qing Dynasty. 14.7 million km2
  7. Yuan Dynasty. 14.0 million km2
  8. French Colonial Empire. 13.0 million km2
  9. Abbasid Caliphate. 11.1 million km2
  10. Portuguese Empire. 10.4 million km2
  11. Rashidun Caliphate. 9.0 million km2
  12. Empire of Brazil. 8.5 million km2
  13. Achaemenid Empire. 8.0 million km2
  14. Japanese Empire. 7.4 million km2
  15. Roman Empire. 6.5 million km2
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βˆ™ 9y ago

The British Empire was the largest empire in history. The largest adjoining empire in history was The Mongolian Empire. The Mongolian Empire was made up of tribes from Turkey and Mongol.

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βˆ™ 8y ago

Queen Victoria of Great Britain ruled 3/4 of the world in her lifetime.

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