by Many empires rose and fall and we have seen a long list of largest empires in History with vigour, uniqueness, traditions, inventions, prosperity, boom, excellence, wonders, surprises, killings, brutality, lechery, cruelty, and what not! In this article, I am going to share a collection of list of largest empires in History.
List of largest empires in History
| Empire | Maximum land area | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| million km2 | million mi2 | % of world | Year | |
| British Empire | 35.5 | 13.71 | 26.35% | 1920 |
| Mongol Empire | 24.0 | 9.27 | 17.81% | 1270 or 1309 |
| Russian Empire | 22.8 | 8.80 | 16.92% | 1895 |
| Spanish Empire | 13.7 | 5.29 | 10.17% | 1810 |
| Qing dynasty | 12.16
14.7 |
4.70–5.68 | 9.02%–10.91% | 1820 or 1790 |
| Second French colonial empire | 11.5 | 4.44 | 8.53% | 1920 |
| Abbasid Caliphate | 11.1 | 4.29 | 8.24% | 750 |
| Umayyad Caliphate | 11.1 | 4.29 | 8.24% | 720 |
| Yuan dynasty | 11.0
13.72 |
4.25–5.30 | 8.16%–10.18% | 1310 or 1330 |
| Xiongnu Empire | 9.0 | 3.47 | 6.68% | 176 BC |
| Empire of Brazil | 8.337 | 3.22 | 6.19% | 1889 |
| Empire of Japan | 7.4–8.51 | 2.86–3.285 | 5.49%–6.32% | 1938 or 1942 |
| Iberian Union | 7.1 | 2.74 | 5.27% | 1640 |
| Eastern Han dynasty | 6.5 | 2.51 | 4.82% | 100 |
| Ming dynasty | 6.5 | 2.51 | 4.82% | 1450 |
| Rashidun Caliphate | 6.4 | 2.47 | 4.75% | 655 |
| Göktürk Khaganate | 6.0 | 2.32 | 4.45% | 557 |
| Golden Horde Khanate | 6.0 | 2.32 | 4.45% | 1310 |
| Western Han dynasty | 6.0 | 2.32 | 4.45% | 50 BC |
| Achaemenid Empire | 5.5 | 2.12 | 4.08% | 500 BC |
| Second Portuguese Empire | 5.5 | 2.12 | 4.08% | 1820 |
| Tang dynasty | 5.4–10.76 | 2.08–4.15 | 4.01%–7.99% | 715 or 669 |
| Macedonian Empire | 5.2 | 2.01 | 3.86% | 323 BC |
| Ottoman Empire | 5.2 | 2.01 | 3.86% | 1683 |
| Roman Empire | 5.0 | 1.93 | 3.71% | 117 |
| Tibetan Empire | 4.6 | 1.78 | 3.41% | 800 |
| Timurid Empire | 4.4 | 1.70 | 3.27% | 1405 |
| Fatimid Caliphate | 4.1 | 1.58 | 3.04% | 969 |
| Eastern Turkic Khaganate | 4.0 | 1.54 | 2.97% | 624 |
| Hephthalite Empire | 4.0 | 1.54 | 2.97% | 470 |
| Hunnic Empire | 4.0 | 1.54 | 2.97% | 441 |
| Mughal Empire | 4.0 | 1.54 | 2.97% | 1690 |
| Great Seljuq Empire | 3.9 | 1.51 | 2.89% | 1080 |
| Seleucid Empire | 3.9 | 1.51 | 2.89% | 301 BC |
| Italian Empire | 3.798–4.25 | 1.47–1.64 | 2.82%–3.15% | 1938 or 1941 |
| Ilkhanate | 3.75 | 1.45 | 2.78% | 1310 |
| Chagatai Khanate | 3.5 | 1.35 | 2.60% | 1310 or 1350 |
| Sasanian Empire | 3.5 | 1.35 | 2.60% | 550 |
| Western Turkic Khaganate | 3.5 | 1.35 | 2.60% | 630 |
| Western Xiongnu | 3.5 | 1.35 | 2.60% | 20 |
| First French colonial empire | 3.4 | 1.31 | 2.52% | 1670 |
| Ghaznavid Empire | 3.4 | 1.31 | 2.52% | 1029 |
| Maurya Empire | 3.4–5.0 | 1.31–1.93 | 2.52%–3.71% | 261 BC or 250 BC |
| Delhi Sultanate (Tughlaq dynasty) | 3.2 | 1.24 | 2.37% | 1312 |
| German colonial empire | 3.199 | 1.24 | 2.37% | 1912 |
| Song dynasty | 3.1 | 1.20 | 2.30% | 980 |
| Uyghur Khaganate | 3.1 | 1.20 | 2.30% | 800 |
| Western Jin dynasty | 3.1 | 1.20 | 2.30% | 280 |
| Sui dynasty | 3.0 | 1.16 | 2.23% | 589 |
| Samanid Empire | 2.85 | 1.10 | 2.12% | 928 |
| Eastern Jin dynasty | 2.8 | 1.08 | 2.08% | 347 |
| Median Empire | 2.8 | 1.08 | 2.08% | 585 BC |
| Parthian Empire | 2.8 | 1.08 | 2.08% | 0 |
| Rouran Khaganate | 2.8 | 1.08 | 2.08% | 405 |
| Byzantine Empire | 2.7–2.8 | 1.04–1.08 | 2.00%–2.08% | 555 or 450 |
| Indo-Scythian Kingdom | 2.6 | 1.00 | 1.93% | 20 |
| Liao dynasty | 2.6–4.5 | 1.00–1.74 | 1.93%–3.34% | 947 or 1111 |
| Greco-Bactrian Kingdom | 2.5 | 0.97 | 1.86% | 184 BC |
| Later Zhao | 2.5 | 0.97 | 1.86% | 329 |
| Maratha Empire | 2.5 | 0.97 | 1.86% | 1760 |
| Jin dynasty (1115–1234) | 2.3 | 0.89 | 1.71% | 1126 |
| Khwarazmian Empire | 2.3–3.6 | 0.89–1.39 | 1.71%–2.67% | 1210 or 1218 |
| Qin dynasty | 2.3 | 0.89 | 1.71% | 220 BC |
| First French Empire | 2.1 | 0.81 | 1.56% | 1813 |
| Kievan Rus’ | 2.1 | 0.81 | 1.56% | 1000 |
| Mamluk Sultanate | 2.1 | 0.81 | 1.56% | 1300 or 1400 |
| Third Portuguese Empire | 2.1 | 0.81 | 1.56% | 1900 |
| Almohad Caliphate | 2.0–2.3 | 0.77–0.89 | 1.48%–1.71% | 1200 or 1150 |
| Cao Wei | 2.0 | 0.77 | 1.48% | 263 |
| Former Qin | 2.0 | 0.77 | 1.48% | 376 |
| Former Zhao | 2.0 | 0.77 | 1.48% | 316 |
| Inca Empire | 2.0 | 0.77 | 1.48% | 1527 |
| Kushan Empire | 2.0–2.5 | 0.77–0.97 | 1.48%–1.86% | 200 |
| Liu Song dynasty | 2.0 | 0.77 | 1.48% | 450 |
| Northern Wei | 2.0 | 0.77 | 1.48% | 450 |
| Western Roman Empire | 2.0 | 0.77 | 1.48% | 395 |
| Ayyubid dynasty | 1.7–2.0 | 0.66–0.77 | 1.26%–1.48% | 1200 or 1190 |
| Gupta Empire | 1.7–3.5 | 0.66–1.35 | 1.26%–2.60% | 440 or 400 |
| Buyid dynasty | 1.6 | 0.62 | 1.19% | 980 |
| Eastern Wu | 1.5 | 0.58 | 1.11% | 221 |
| Northern Qi | 1.5 | 0.58 | 1.11% | 557 |
| Northern Xiongnu | 1.5 | 0.58 | 1.11% | 60 |
| Northern Zhou | 1.5 | 0.58 | 1.11% | 577 |
| Assyria | 1.4 | 0.54 | 1.04% | 670 BC |
| Eastern Maurya Empire | 1.3 | 0.50 | 0.96% | 210 BC |
| Liang dynasty | 1.3 | 0.50 | 0.96% | 502, 549, or 579 |
| Kingdom of Aksum | 1.25 | 0.48 | 0.93% | 350 |
| Shang dynasty | 1.25 | 0.48 | 0.93% | 1122 BC |
| Francia | 1.2 | 0.46 | 0.89% | 814 |
| Srivijaya | 1.2 | 0.46 | 0.89% | 1200 |
| Indo-Greek Kingdom | 1.1 | 0.42 | 0.82% | 150 BC |
| Mali Empire | 1.1 | 0.42 | 0.82% | 1380 |
| Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth | 1.1 | 0.42 | 0.82% | 1480 or 1650 |
| Almoravid dynasty | 1.0 | 0.39 | 0.74% | 1120 |
| Empire of Harsha | 1.0 | 0.39 | 0.74% | 625 or 648 |
| Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty | 1.0 | 0.39 | 0.74% | 860 |
| Holy Roman Empire | 1.0 | 0.39 | 0.74% | 1050 |
| Khazar Khanate | 1.0–3.0 | 0.39–1.16 | 0.74%–2.23% | 900 or 850 |
| Khmer Empire | 1.0 | 0.39 | 0.74% | 1290 |
| New Kingdom of Egypt | 1.0 | 0.39 | 0.74% | 1450 BC or 1300 BC |
| Ptolemaic Kingdom | 1.0 | 0.39 | 0.74% | 301 BC |
| Qara Khitai | 1.0–1.5 | 0.39–0.58 | 0.74%–1.11% | 1130 or 1210 |
| Scythia | 1.0 | 0.39 | 0.74% | 400 BC |
| Shu Han | 1.0 | 0.39 | 0.74% | 221 |
| Tahirid dynasty | 1.0 | 0.39 | 0.74% | 800 |
| Western Xia | 1.0 | 0.39 | 0.74% | 1100 |
| First Bulgarian Empire | 0.807 | 0.31 | 0.60% | 927 |
| Akkadian Empire | 0.8 | 0.31 | 0.59% | 2250 BC |
| Avar Khaganate | 0.8 | 0.31 | 0.59% | 600 |
| Chu (state) | 0.8 | 0.31 | 0.59% | 300 BC |
| First Portuguese Empire | 0.8 | 0.31 | 0.59% | 1580 |
| Huns | 0.8 | 0.31 | 0.59% | 287 |
| Songhai Empire | 0.8 | 0.31 | 0.59% | 1550 |
| Hyksos | 0.65 | 0.25 | 0.48% | 1650 BC |
| Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt | 0.65 | 0.25 | 0.48% | 550 BC |
| Austro-Hungarian Empire | 0.62 | 0.24[25] | 0.46% | 1905 |
| Caliphate of Córdoba | 0.6 | 0.23 | 0.45% | 1000 |
| Visigothic Kingdom | 0.6 | 0.23 | 0.45% | 580 |
| Zhou dynasty | 0.55 | 0.21 | 0.41% | 1100 BC |
| Kosala | 0.5 | 0.19 | 0.37% | 543 BC |
| Lydia | 0.5 | 0.19 | 0.37% | 585 BC |
| Magadha | 0.5 | 0.19 | 0.37% | 510 BC |
| Middle Kingdom of Egypt | 0.5 | 0.19 | 0.37% | 1850 BC |
| Neo-Babylonian Empire | 0.5 | 0.19 | 0.37% | 562 BC |
| Satavahana dynasty | 0.5 | 0.19 | 0.37% | 150 |
| Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt | 0.5 | 0.19 | 0.37% | 715 BC |
| Western Satraps | 0.5 | 0.19 | 0.37% | 100 |
| Second Bulgarian Empire | 0.477 | 0.18 | 0.35% | 1241 |
| New Hittite Kingdom | 0.45 | 0.17 | 0.33% | 1250 BC–1220 BC |
| Xia dynasty | 0.45 | 0.17 | 0.33% | 1800 BC |
| Middle Assyrian Empire | 0.4 | 0.15 | 0.30% | 1080 BC |
| Old Kingdom of Egypt | 0.4 | 0.15 | 0.30% | 2400 BC |
| Ancient Carthage | 0.3 | 0.12 | 0.22% | 220 BC |
| Indus Valley Civilisation | 0.3 | 0.12 | 0.22% | 1800 BC |
| Mitanni | 0.3 | 0.12 | 0.22% | 1450 BC–1375 BC |
| First Babylonian Empire | 0.25 | 0.10 | 0.19% | 1690 BC |
| Aztec Empire | 0.22 | 0.08 | 0.16% | 1520 |
| Elamite Empire | 0.2 | 0.08 | 0.15% | 1160 BC |
| Phrygia | 0.2 | 0.08 | 0.15% | 750 BC |
| Second Dynasty of Isin | 0.2 | 0.08 | 0.15% | 1130 BC |
| Urartu | 0.2 | 0.08 | 0.15% | 800 BC |
| Middle Hittite Kingdom | 0.15 | 0.06 | 0.11% | 1450 BC |
| Old Assyrian Empire | 0.15 | 0.06 | 0.11% | 1730 BC |
| Old Hittite Empire | 0.15 | 0.06 | 0.11% | 1530 BC |
| Ashanti Empire | 0.1 | 0.04 | 0.07% | 1872 |
| Larsa | 0.1 | 0.04 | 0.07% | 1750 BC–1700 BC |
| Neo-Sumerian Empire | 0.1 | 0.04 | 0.07% | 2000 BC |
| Lagash | 0.05 | 0.02 | 0.04% | 2400 BC |
| Sumer | 0.05 | 0.02 | 0.04% | 2400 BC |
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