Àkójọ àwọn ilẹ̀ ọbalúayé títóbijùlọ

Awon ile obaluaye titobijulo gege bi iposi ile won

For context, note that the total land area of the Earth is 148.94 million km2.
All empires at their greatest extent

# British Empire - 33 million km2 (1922)
# Mongol Empire - 29 million km2 (1270 or 1309)
# French Colonial Empire - 24.0 million km2 (1534-1980)
# Russian Empire - 23.7 million km2 (1866)
# Spanish Empire - 20.0 million km2 (ca. 1740-1790)
# Qing Empire, China - 14.7 million km2 (1790)
# Yuan Dynasty - 14.0 million km2 (1310)
# Umayyad Caliphate - 13.0 million km2 (720 or 750)
# Abbasid Caliphate - 11.1 million km2 (750)
# Portuguese Empire - 10.4 million km2 (1815)
# United States of America - 9.8 million km2 (1899)
# Empire of Brazil - 8.5 million km2 (1880)
# Achaemenid Empire, Persia - 8.0 million km2 (480 BC)
# Japanese Empire - 7.4 million km2 (1942)
# Rashidun Caliphate - 6.7 million km2 (661)
# Roman Empire - 6.5 million km2 (117)
# Han Empire, China - 6.5 million km2 (100)
# Ming Empire, China - 6.5 million km2 (1450)
# Göktürk Khaganate - 6.0 million km2 (557)
# Golden Horde Khanate - 6.0 million km2 (1310)
# Uyghur Khaganate - 5.5 million km2 (800)
# Tang Empire, China - 5.4 million km2 (715)
# Macedonian Empire - 5.2 million km2 (323 BC)
# Ottoman Empire - 5.2 million km2 (1683, 1829 or 1850)
# Fatimid Caliphate - 5.1 million km2 (969)
# Maurya Empire, India - 5.0 million km2 (250 BC)
# Northern Yuan Dynasty (Oirats), Mongolia - 5.0 million km2 (1550)
# Xin Dynasty, China - 4.7 million km2 (10)
# Tufan (Tibet) Empire - 4.6 million km2 (800)
# Pala Empire, India - 4.6 million km2 (850)
# Timurid Empire - 4.6 million km2 (1405)
# Mughal Empire, India - 4.6 million km2 (1690)
# First Mexican Empire - 4.4 million km2 (1822)
# Xiongnu Empire - 4.03 million km2 (176 BC)
# Hunnic Empire - 4.0 million km2 (441)
# Hepthalite Khanate (White Huns), India - 4.0 million km2 (490)
# Eastern Turks Khanate - 4.0 million km2 (624)
# Afsharid Dynasty, Persia - 4.0 million km2 (1747)
# Western Turks Khanate- 4.0 million km2 (630)
# Rouran Khaganate (Juan-juan) - 4.0 million km2 (AD 405)
# Seleucid Empire - 3.9 million km2 (301 BC)
# Great Seljuq Empire - 3.9 million km2 (1080)
# Italian Empire - 3.8 million km2 (1940)
# Kushan Empire, India- 3.8 million km2 (200)
# Ilkhanate - 3.75 million km2 (1310)
# Dutch Empire - 3.7 million km2(1940)
# Chola Dynasty, India - 3.6 million km2 (1050)
# Khwarazmian Empire - 3.6 million km2 (1218)
# Nazi Germany - 3.6 million km2 (1942)
# Sassanid Empire, Persia - 3.5 million km2 (620)
# Gupta Empire, India - 3.5 million km2 (400)
# Chagatai Khanate - 3.5 million km2 (1310 or 1350)
# Safavid Dynasty, Persia - 3.5 million km2 (1512)
# German Empire - 3.5 million km2 (1914)
# Western Jin Dynasty, China - 3.5 million km2 (300)
# Shaybanid (Uzbek) Dynasty - 3.5 million km2 (1510)
# Justinian Dynasty (Byzantine Empire) - 3.5 million km2 (555)
# Song Dynasty (Northern Song), China - 3.5 million km2 (1100)
# Ghaznavid Empire, Persia - 3.4 million km2 (1029)
# First French Colonial Empire - 3.4 million km2 (1670)
# Almoravid Caliphate - 3.3 million km2 (1147)
# Tughlaq Dynasty, India- 3.2 million km2 (1320)
# Ghurids Sultanate, Persia - 3.2 million km2 (1200)
# Sui Dynasty, China - 3.1 million km2 (610)
# Khazar Khanate - 3.0 million km2 (850)
# Kalmar Union - 3.0 million km2 (1397)
# Kievan Rus' - 3.0 million km2 (1050)
# Kara-Khanid Khanate - 3.0 million km2 (1025)
# Qajar Dynasty, Persia- 3.0 million km2 (1796)
# Danish colonial empire - 3.0 million km2 (1800)
# Grand Duchy of Moscow - 3.0 million km2 (1505)
# Samanid Dynasty, Persia - 2.85 million km2 (928)
# Median Empire - 2.8 million km2 (585 BC)
# Qin Dynasty, China - 2.8 million km2 (206 BC)
# Parthian Empire - 2.8 million km2 (1)
# Eastern Jin Dynasty, China - 2.8 million km2 (347)
# Liu Song Dynasty, China - 2.8 million km2 (420)
# Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire) - 2.8 million km2 (450)
# Khilji Dynasty, India - 2.7 million km2 (1312 or 1320)
# Ayyubid Caliphate - 2.7 million km2 (1190)
# Majapahit Empire (Indonesia) - 2.7 million km2 (1389)
# Liao Dynasty, China - 2.6 million km2 (947)
# Indo-Greek (Yavana) Kingdom,India - 2.5 million km2 (150 BC)
# Bactrian Empire - 2.5 million km2 (184 BC)
# Later Zhao Dynasty, China - 2.5 million km2 (329)
# Maratha Empire, India - 2.5 million km2 (1760)
# Belgian Empire - 2.5 million km2 (1914)
# Kara-Khitan Khanate (Western Liao) - 2.5 million km2 (1210)
# Jin Dynasty (Jurchen), China - 2.3 million km2 (1126)
# Southern Qi Dynasty, China - 2.3 million km2 (502)
# Southern Song Dynasty, China - 2.1 million km2 (1127)
# Bahriyya Mamluks, Egypt - 2.1 million km2 (1300)
# Burjiyya Mamluks, Egypt - 2.1 million km2 (1400)
# First French Empire - 2.1 million km2 (1813)
# Wei Dynasty, China - 2.0 million km2 (263)
# Earlier Zhao Dynasty, China - 2.0 million km2 (316)
# Former Qin Dynasty, China - 2.0 million km2 (376)
# Western Roman Empire - 2.0 million km2 (395)
# Northern Wei Dynasty, China - 2.0 million km2 (450)
# Saffarid Dynasty, Persia - 2.0 million km2 (900)
# Almohad Caliphate - 2.0 million km2 (1200)
# Satavahana Dynasty (Salivahana), India - 2.0 million km2 (90 AD)
# Karkota Dynasty (Kashmir), India - 2.0 million km2 (750)
# Inca Empire - 2.0 million km2 (1527)
# Gurjara Pratihara Dynasty, India - 1.8 million km2 (860)
# Sibir Khanate - 1.8 million km2 (1520)
# Rashtrakuta Dynasty, India - 1.7 million km2 (805)
# Buyid Sultanate, Persia - 1.6 million km2 (980)
# Mamluk Sultanate, India - 1.6 million km2 (1228)
# Indo-Parthians (Pahalvas) Kingdom, India - 1.5 million km2 (AD 50)
# Wu Dynasty, China- 1.5 million km2 (221)
# Northern Zhou Dynasty, China - 1.5 million km2 (577)
# Nanda Dynasty, India - 1.5 million km2 (350 or 321 BC)
# Indo-Scythians (Shaka) Kingdom, India - 1.5 million km2 (BC 100)
# Tulunids Emirate - 1.5 million km2 (900)
# Idrisid Dynasty, Morocco - 1.5 million km2 (828)
# Suri Dynasty, India - 1.5 million km2 (1545 AD)
# Neo-Assyrian Empire - 1.4 million km2 (670 BC)
# Songhai Empire - 1.4 million km2 (1500)
# Macedonian Dynasty (Byzantine Empire) - 1.35 million km2 (1025)
# Harsha Empire (Pusyabhutis), India - 1.35 million km2 (625 or 648)
# Liang Dynasty, China - 1.3 million km2 (502 or 549)
# Western Wei Dynasty, China - 1.3 million km2 (557)
# Later Liang Dynasty, China- 1.3 million km2 (923)
# Later Tang Dynasty, China - 1.3 million km2 (923)
# Mali Empire - 1.29 million km2 (1312)
# Shang Dynasty, China - 1.25 million km2 (1122 BC)
# Western Zhou Dynasty, China - 1.25 million km2 (1122 BC)
# Aksumite Empire - 1.25 million km2 (350)
# Carolingian Dynasty, Francia - 1.2 million km2 (814)
# Polish-Lithuanian Empire - 1.2 million km2 (1650)
# Srivijaya Empire - 1.2 million km2 (1200)
# Sunga Empire, India - 1.2 million km2 (BC 150)
# Kingdom of Kush (Meroë) (25th Dynasty), Sudan - 1.2 million km2 (BC 700)
# Thai Empire (Siam Empire) - 1.12 million km2 (1782)
# Chalukya Dynasty, India - 1.1 million km2 (636)
# Swedish Empire - 1.1 million km2 (1658)
# Lodhi Dynasty, India - 1.1 million km2 (1517)
# 18th Dynasty, Egypt - 1.0 million km2 (1450 BC)
# New Kingdom in Egypt - 1.0 million km2 (1300 BC)
# Ptolemaic Dynasty, Egypt - 1.0 million km2 (301 BC)
# Eastern Wei Dynasty, China - 1.0 million km2 (550)
# Northern Qi Dynasty, China - 1.0 million km2 (550)
# Tahirid Dynasty, Persia - 1.0 million km2 (800)
# Kalachuri Dynasty, India - 1.0 million km2 (1050)
# Holy Roman Empire - 1.0 million km2 (1050)
# Western Xia Dynasty (Tangut), China- 1.0 million km2 (1100)
# Western Chalukya Empire, India - 1.0 million km2 (1121)
# Khmer Empire - 1.0 million km2 (1290)
# Avars Empire - 1.0 million km2 (600)
# Kanem Empire, Chad - 1.0 million km2 (1200)
# Maha-Meghavahana Dynasty, India- 0.9 million km2 (10 BC)
# Konbaung Dynasty, Burma - 0.9 million km2 (1800 AD)
# Volga Bulgars Khanate - 0.9 million km2 (1100)
# Akkadian Empire - 0.8 million km2 (2250 BC)
# Later Jin Dynasty, China - 0.8 million km2 (936)
# Ghana Empire - 0.8 million km2 (1067)
# Pagan Kingdom (Bagan), Burma - 0.8 million km2 (1200)
# Western Satraps Dynasty, India - 0.8 million km2 (100)
# Himyarite Kingdom, Yemen - 0.8 million km2 (400 AD)
# Balhae Kingdom, Korea - 0.8 million km2 (830)
# Khanate of Kazan - 0.7 million km2 (1540)
# Merovingian Dynasty, Francia - 0.7 million km2 (558)
# Bulgarian Empire - 0.7 million km2 (900)
# Shu Dynasty, China- 0.7 million km2 (221)
# Yadava (Gauli) Kingdom, India- 0.7 million km2 (1250)
# Paramara Dynasty , India - 0.7 million km2 (1050)
# Kingdom of Dali (Hou li),China - 0.7 million km2 (1200)
# Vijayanagara (Tuluvas) Empire, India- 0.7 million km2 (1529)
# Kingdom of Nanzhao, China - 0.7 million km2 (830)
# Austro-Hungarian Empire - 0.676615 million km2
# 15th Dynasty (Hyksos), Egypt - 0.65 million km2 (1650 BC)
# 26th Dynasty, Egypt- 0.65 million km2 (550 BC)
# Vakataka Kingdom, India - 0.65 million km2 (450 AD)
# Visigoths Kingdom - 0.6 million km2 (580)
# Caliphate of Córdoba - 0.6 million km2 (1000)
# Rai Dynasty (Chachas) (Sindh) ,India - 0.6 million km2 (675 AD)
# Maukhari (Kannauj) Dynasty, India - 0.6 million km2 (600 AD)
# Bahmani Sultanate, India - 0.6 million km2 (1470 AD)
# Nizams Dynasty, India - 0.6 million km2 (1740 AD)
# Sikh Empire, India - 0.5609 million km2 (1845)
# Middle Kingdom, Egypt - 0.5 million km2 (1850 BC)
# Lydian Empire - 0.5 million km2 (585 BC)
# Neo-Babylonian Empire - 0.5 million km2 (562 BC)
# Kosala Dynasty, India - 0.5 million km2 (543 BC)
# Shishunaga Dynasty,India- 0.5 million km2 (510 BC)
# Chu Dynasty, China - 0.5 million km2 (350 BC)
# Pandyan Dynasty, India - 0.5 million km2 (1251)
# Later Han Dynasty, China - 0.5 million km2 (947)
# Kangju Empire (Transoxiana) - 0.5 million km2 (100 BC)
# Ostrogothic Kingdom- 0.5 million km2 (510 AD)
# Goguryeo Kingdom, Korea - 0.45 million km2 (476)
# Xia Dynasty, China (bassed on the hypothesis that prehistorical cities of Erlitou culture were once united) - 0.45 million km2 (1800 BC)
# New Kingdom, Hittite - 0.45 million km2 (1250 or 1220 BC)
# Crimean Khanate - 0.4 million km2 (1500)
# Armenian Empire - 0.4 million km2 (83 BC)
# Old Kingdom, Egypt - 0.4 million km2 (2400 BC)
# Middle Kingdom, Assyria (under Tiglath-Pileser I) - 0.4 million km2 (1080 BC)
# Latin Empire - 0.35 million km2 (1204)
# Harappan Empire, India- 0.3 million km2 (1800 BC)
# Mitanni Empire - 0.3 million km2 (1450 BC)
# Carthaginian Empire - 0.3 million km2 (220 BC)
# Palailogan Dynasty (Byzantine Empire) - 0.3 million km2 (1300)
# 1st Dynasty, Babylon - 0.25 million km2 (1690 BC)
# Serbian Empire - 0.25 million km2 (1350)
# Aztec Empire - 0.22 million km2 (1520)
# Middle Elamite - 0.2 million km2 (1160 BC)
# 2nd Dynasty, Isin - 0.2 million km2 (1130 BC)
# Urartu Empire - 0.2 million km2 (800 BC)
# Phrygian Dynasty - 0.2 million km2 (750 BC)
# Old Kingdom, Assyria - 0.15 million km2 (1730 BC)
# Eastern Zhou Dynasty, China - 0.15 million km2 (770 BC)
Record-breaking empires

These are empires that reached record-breaking sizes in their time, each one having a larger landmass than (or equal to) the previous record-holding empire before it.

* Akkadian Empire - 0.8 million km2 (2250 BC)
* New Kingdom of Egypt (Eighteenth Dynasty) - 1.0 million km2 (1450 BC)
* Shang Dynasty of China - 1.25 million km2 (1122 BC)
* Western Zhou Dynasty of China - 1.25 million km2 (1122 BC)
* Neo-Assyrian Empire - 1.4 million km2 (670 BC)
* Median Empire - 2.8 million km2 (585 BC)
* Achaemenid Empire - 8.0 million km2 (480 BC)
* Umayyad Caliphate - 13.0 million km2 (720 or 750 AD)
* Mongol Empire - 33.0 million km2 (1270 or 1309)
* British Empire - 33.67 million km2 (1922)
By era

Ancient empires

250px|thumb|right|Achaemenid Empire at its greatest extent.
250px|thumb|right|Roman Empire at its greatest extent.
thumb|250px|Han Dynasty
250px|thumb|right|Macedon#Empire|Macedonian Empire at its greatest extent.
250px|thumb|right|Maurya Empire at its greatest extent.

# Achaemenid Empire - 8.0 million km2 (480 BC)
# Han Empire, China - 6.5 million km2 (AD 100)
# Roman Empire - 6.5 million km2 (AD 117)
# Macedonian Empire - 5.2 million km2 (323 BC)
# Maurya Empire, India - 5.0 million km2 (250 BC)
# Xin Dynasty, China - 4.7 million km2 (AD 10)
# Xiongnu Empire - 4.03 million km2 (176 BC)
# Hunnic Empire - 4.0 million km2 (AD 441)
# Hapthalite Khanate (White Huns), India - 4.0 million km2 (AD 490)
# Rouran Khaganate (Juan-juan) - 4.0 million km2 (AD 405)
# Seleucid Empire - 3.9 million km2 (301 BC)
# Kushan Empire, India - 3.8 million km2 (AD 200)
# Sassanid Empire - 3.5 million km2 (AD 450)
# Gupta Empire, India - 3.5 million km2 (AD 400)
# Western Jin Dynasty, China - 3.5 million km2 (AD 300)
# Median Empire - 2.8 million km2 (585 BC)
# Qin Dynasty, China - 2.8 million km2 (206 BC)
# Parthian Empire - 2.8 million km2 (AD 1)
# Eastern Jin Dynasty, China - 2.8 million km2 (AD 347)
# Liu Song Dynasty, China - 2.8 million km2 (AD 420)
# Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire) - 2.8 million km2 (AD 450)
# Indo-Greek (Yavana) Kingdom, India - 2.5 million km2 (150 BC)
# Bactrian Empire - 2.5 million km2 (184 BC)
# Later Zhao Dynasty, China - 2.5 million km2 (329)
# Northern Wei Dynasty, China - 2.2 million km2 (AD 450)
# Wei Dynasty, China - 2.0 million km2 (AD 263)
# Former Qin Dynasty, China - 2.0 million km2 (AD 376)
# Western Roman Empire - 2.0 million km2 (AD 395)
# Earlier Zhao Dynasty, China - 2.0 million km2 (316)
# Satavahana Empire (Salivahana), India - 2.0 million km2 (AD 90)
# Indo-Parthians (Pahalvas) Kingdom , India - 1.5 million km2 (AD 50)
# Wu Dynasty, China - 1.5 million km2 (AD 221)
# Indo-Scythians (Shaka) Kingdom, India - 1.5 million km2 (BC 100)
# Nanda Dynasty, India - 1.5 million km2 (350 or 321 BC)
# Neo-Assyrian Empire - 1.4 million km2 (670 BC)
# Shang Dynasty, China - 1.25 million km2 (1122 BC)
# Western Zhou Dynasty, China - 1.25 million km2 (1122 BC)
# Aksumite Empire - 1.25 million km2 (AD 350)
# Sunga Empire, India - 1.2 million km2 (BC 150)
# Kingdom of Kush (Meroë) (25th Dynasty), Sudan - 1.2 million km2 (BC 700)
# 18th Dynasty, Egypt - 1.0 million km2 (1450 BC)
# New Kingdom in Egypt - 1.0 million km2 (1300 BC)
# Ptolemaic Empire, Egypt - 1.0 million km2 (301 BC)
# Maha-Meghavahana Dynasty, India - 0.9 million km2 (10 BC)
# Akkadian Empire - 0.8 million km2 (2250 BC)
# Western Satraps Dynasty, India - 0.8 million km2 (AD 100)
# Himyarite Kingdom, Yemen - 0.8 million km2 (400 AD)
# Shu Dynasty, China - 0.7 million km2 (221)
# 15th Dynasty (Hyksos), Egypt - 0.65 million km2 (1650 BC)
# Vakataka Kingdom, India - 0.65 million km2 (450 AD)
# 26th Dynasty, Egypt - 0.65 million km2 (550 BC)
# Middle Kingdom, Egypt - 0.5 million km2 (1850 BC)
# Lydian Empire - 0.5 million km2 (585 BC)
# Neo-Babylonian Empire - 0.5 million km2 (562 BC)
# Kosala Dynasty, India - 0.5 million km2 (543 BC)
# Shishunaga Dynasty, India - 0.5 million km2 (510 BC)
# Chu Dynasty, China - 0.5 million km2 (350 BC)
# Kangju Empire (Transoxiana) - 0.5 million km2 (100 BC)
# Goguryeo Kingdom, Korea - 0.45 million km2 (476)
# Xia Dynasty, China (bassed on the hypothesis that prehistorical cities of Erlitou culture were once united) - 0.45 million km2 (1800 BC)
# New Kingdom, Hittite - 0.45 million km2 (1250 or 1220 BC)
# Armenian Empire - 0.4 million km2 (83 BC)
# Old Kingdom, Egypt - 0.4 million km2 (2400 BC)
# Middle Kingdom, Assyria - 0.4 million km2 (1080 BC)
# Harappan Empire, India (based on the hypothesis that Indus Valley was once united) - 0.3 million km2 (1800 BC)
# Mitanni Dynasty - 0.3 million km2 (1450 BC)
# Carthaginian Empire - 0.3 million km2 (220 BC)
# 1st Dynasty, Babylon - 0.25 million km2 (1690 BC)
# Middle Elamite - 0.2 million km2 (1160 BC)
# 2nd Dynasty, Isin - 0.2 million km2 (1130 BC)
# Urartu Empire - 0.2 million km2 (800 BC)
# Phrygian Dynasty - 0.2 million km2 (750 BC)
# Old Kingdom, Assyria - 0.15 million km2 (1730 BC)
# Eastern Zhou Dynasty, China - 0.15 million km2 (770 BC)
Medieval empires

250px|thumb|right|Mongol Empire at its greatest extent.
250px|thumb|right|Ming Empire at its greatest extent.
thumb|250px|The expansion of the Caliphate.
thumb|250px|right|Chola Empire under [[Rajendra Chola c. 1030 C.E.]]
250px|thumb|right|Sassanid Empire at its greatest extent.

# Mongol Empire - 33.0 million km2 (1270 or 1309)
# Yuan Dynasty - 14.0 million km2 (1310)
# Umayyad Caliphate - 13.0 million km2 (720 or 750)
# Abbasid Caliphate - 11.1 million km2 (750)
# Rashidun Caliphate - 6.7 million km2 (661)
# Ming Empire, China - 6.5 million km2 (1450)
# Göktürk Khaganate - 6.0 million km2 (557)
# Golden Horde Khanate - 6.0 million km2 (1310)
# Uyghur Khaganate - 5.5 million km2 (800)
# Tang Empire, China - 5.4 million km2 (715)
# Fatimid Caliphate - 5.1 million km2 (969)
# Tufan (Tibet) Empire - 4.6 million km2 (800)
# Pala Empire, India - 4.6 million km2 (850)
# Timurid Empire - 4.6 million km2 (1405)
# Eastern Turks Khanate - 4.0 million km2 (624)
# Western Turks Khanate - 4.0 million km2 (600)
# Great Seljuq Empire - 3.9 million km2 (1080)
# Ilkhanate - 3.75 million km2 (1310)
# Chola Dynasty, India - 3.6 million km2 (1050)
# Khwarazmian Empire - 3.6 million km2 (1218)
# Sassanid Empire - 3.5 million km2 (620)
# Chagatai Khanate - 3.5 million km2 (1310 or 1350)
# Justinian Dynasty (Byzantine Empire) - 3.5 million km2 (555)
# Northern Yuan Empire (Oirats), Mongolia - 3.5 million km2 (1400)
# Song Dynasty (Northern Song), China- 3.5 million km2 (1100)
# Ghaznavid Empire, Persia - 3.4 million km2 (1029)
# Almoravid Caliphate - 3.3 million km2 (1147)
# Tughlaq Dynasty, India - 3.2 million km2 (1320)
# Ghurids Sultanate, Persia - 3.2 million km2 (1200)
# Sui Dynasty, China - 3.1 million km2 (610)
# Khazar Khanate - 3.0 million km2 (850)
# Kalmar Union - 3.0 million km2 (1397)
# Kievan Rus' - 3.0 million km2 (1050)
# Kara-Khanid Khanate - 3.0 million km2 (1025)
# Samanid Dynasty, Persia - 2.85 million km2 (928)
# Ayyubid Caliphate - 2.7 million km2 (1190)
# Majapahit Empire (Indonesia) - 2.7 million km2 (1389)
# Khilji Dynasty, India - 2.7 million km2 (1312 or 1320)
# Liao Dynasty, China - 2.6 million km2 (947)
# Kara-Khitan Khanate(Western Liao) - 2.5 million km2 (1210)
# Jin Dynasty(Jurchen), China) - 2.3 million km2 (1126)
# Southern Qi Dynasty, China - 2.3 million km2 (502)
# Southern Song Dynasty, China - 2.1 million km2 (1127)
# Bahriyya Mamluks, Egypt - 2.1 million km2 (1300)
# Burjiyya Mamluks, Egypt - 2.1 million km2 (1400)
# Saffarid Dynasty, Persia - 2.0 million km2 (900)
# Ottoman Empire - 2.0 million km2 (1480)
# Almohad Caliphate - 2.0 million km2 (1200)
# Karkota Dynasty (Kashmir), India - 2.0 million km2 (750)
# Pratihara Dynasty, India - 1.8 million km2 (860)
# Rashtrakuta Dynasty, India - 1.7 million km2 (805)
# Buyid Sultanate, Persia - 1.6 million km2 (980)
# Mamluk Sultanate, India - 1.6 million km2 (1228)
# Northern Zhou Dynasty, China - 1.5 million km2 (577)
# Tulunids Emirate - 1.5 million km2 (900)
# Idrisid Dynasty, Morocco - 1.5 million km2 (828)
# Songhai Empire - 1.4 million km2 (1500)
# Macedonian Dynasty (Byzantine Empire) - 1.35 million km2 (1025)
# Harsha Empire (Pusyabhutis), India - 1.35 million km2 (625 or 648)
# Liang Dynasty, China - 1.3 million km2 (502 or 549)
# Western Wei Dynasty, China - 1.3 million km2 (557)
# Later Liang Dynasty, China - 1.3 million km2 (923)
# Later Tang Dynasty, China - 1.3 million km2 (923)
# Mali Empire - 1.29 million km2 (1312)
# Carolingian Dynasty, Francia - 1.2 million km2 (814)
# Srivijaya Empire - 1.2 million km2 (1200)
# Chalukya Dynasty, India - 1.1 million km2 (636)
# Eastern Wei Dynasty, China - 1.0 million km2 (550)
# Northern Qi Dynasty, China - 1.0 million km2 (550)
# Tahirid Dynasty, Persia - 1.0 million km2 (800)
# Holy Roman Empire - 1.0 million km2 (1050)
# Western Xia Dynasty (Tangut), China - 1.0 million km2 (1100)
# Western Chalukya Empire, India - 1.0 million km2 (1121)
# Khmer Empire - 1.0 million km2 (1290)
# Kalachuri Dynasty, India - 1.0 million km2 (1050)
# Avars Empire - 1.0 million km2 (600)
# Kanem Empire, Chad - 1.0 million km2 (1200)
# Volga Bulgars Khanate - 0.9 million km2 (1100)
# Later Jin Dynasty, China - 0.8 million km2 (936)
# Ghana Empire - 0.8 million km2 (1067)
# Pagan Kingdom (Bagan), Burma - 0.8 million km2 (1200)
# Balhae Kingdom, Korea - 0.8 million km2 (830)
# Merovingian Dynasty, Francia - 0.7 million km2 (558)
# Yadava (Gauli) Kingdom, India - 0.7 million km2 (1250)
# Bulgarian Empire - 0.7 million km2 (900)
# Paramara Dynasty, India - 0.7 million km2 (1050)
# Kingdom of Dali (Hou li), China - 0.7 million km2 (1200)
# Kingdom of Nanzhao, China - 0.7 million km2 (830)
# Visigoths Kingdom - 0.6 million km2 (580)
# Caliphate of Córdoba - 0.6 million km2 (1000)
# Rai Dynasty (Chachas) (Sindh), India - 0.6 million km2 (675 AD)
# Maukhari (Kannauj) Dynasty, India - 0.6 million km2 (600 AD)
# Bahmani Sultanate, India - 0.6 million km2 (1470 AD)
# Later Han Dynasty, China - 0.5 million km2 (947)
# Pandyan Dynasty, India - 0.5 million km2 (1251)
# Ostrogothic Kingdom - 0.5 million km2 (510 AD)
# Latin Empire - 0.35 million km2 (1204)
# Palailogan Dynasty (Byzantine Empire)- 0.3 million km2 (1300)
# Serbian Empire - 0.25 million km2 (1350)
Modern empires

250px|thumb|right|British Empire at its greatest extent.
250px|thumb|right|Russian Empire at its greatest extent.
250px|thumb|right|Spanish Empire at its greatest extent.
250px|thumb|right|All territories and spheres of influence ever held by the French colonial empire|French Empire
250px|thumb|right|Anachronous map of the Portuguese Empire.
250px|thumb|right|Qing Dynasty|Qing Empire at its greatest extent.
250px|thumb|right|Ottoman Empire territories acquired between 1300 and 1683.

# British Empire - 33.67 million km2 (1922)
# Russian Empire - 23.7 million km2 (1866)

# Spanish Empire - 20.0 million km2 (ca. 1740-1790)
# Qing Empire, China - 14.7 million km2 (1790)
# Second French Colonial Empire - 13 million km2 (1938)
# Portuguese Empire - 10.4 million km2 (1815)
# Empire of Brazil - 8.5 million km2 (1880)
# Japanese Empire - 7.4 million km2 (1942)
# Ottoman Empire - 5.2 million km2 (1683, 1829 or 1850)
# Northern Yuan Empire (Oirats), Mongolia - 5.0 million km2 (1550)
# Ming Empire, China - 5.0 million km2 (1540)
# Mughal Empire, India - 4.6 million km2 (1690)
# First Mexican Empire - 4.4 million km2 (1822)
# Afsharid Dynasty, Persia - 4.0 million km2 (1747)
# Italian Empire - 3.8 million km2 (1940)
# Dutch Empire - 3.7 million km2(1940)
# Nazi German Empire - 3.6 million km2 (1942)
# German Empire - 3.5 million km2 (1914)
# Safavid Dynasty, Persia - 3.5 million km2 (1512)
# Shaybanid (Uzbek) Dynasty - 3.5 million km2 (1510)
# First French Colonial Empire - 3.4 million km2 (1670)
# Danish colonial empire - 3.0 million km2 (1800)
# Qajar Dynasty, Persia - 3.0 million km2 (1796)
# Grand Duchy of Moscow - 3.0 million km2 (1505)
# Belgian Empire - 2.5 million km2 (1914)
# Maratha Empire, India - 2.5 million km2 (1760)
# First French Empire - 2.1 million km2 (1813)
# Inca Empire - 2.0 million km2 (1527)
# Sibir Khanate - 1.8 million km2 (1520)
# Suri Dynasty ,India - 1.5 million km2 (1545 AD)
# Polish-Lithuanian Empire - 1.2 million km2 (1650)
# Thai Empire (Siam Empire) - 1.12 million km2 (1782)
# Lodhi Dynasty, India - 1.1 million km2 (1517 AD)
# Swedish Empire - 1.1 million km2 (1658)
# Konbaung Dynasty, Burma - 0.9 million km2 (1800 AD)
# Khanate of Kazan - 0.7 million km2 (1540)
# Vijayanagara (Tuluvas) Empire, India - 0.7 million km2 (1529)
# Austro-Hungarian Empire - 0.676615 million km2
# Nizams Dynasty, India - 0.6 million km2 (1740 AD)
# Sikh Empire, India - 0.5609 million km2 (1845)
# Crimean Khanate - 0.4 million km2 (1500)
# Aztec Empire - 0.22 million km2 (1520)
By type

Contiguous empires

# Mongol Empire - 33.0 million km2 (1270 or 1309)
# Russian Empire - 23.7 million km2 (1866)
# Qing Empire, China - 14.7 million km2 (1790)
# Yuan Khanate - 14.0 million km2 (1310)
# Umayyad Caliphate - 13.0 million km2 (720 or 750)
# Abbasid Caliphate - 11.1 million km2 (750)
# Empire of Brazil - 8.5 million km2 (1880)
# Achaemenid Empire, Persia - 8.0 million km2 (480 BC)
# Rashidun Caliphate - 6.7 million km2 (661)
# Han Empire, China - 6.5 million km2 (100)
# Ming Empire, China - 6.5 million km2 (1450)
# Göktürk Khaganate - 6.0 million km2 (557)
# Golden Horde Khanate - 6.0 million km2 (1310)
# Uyghur Khaganate - 5.5 million km2 (800)
# Tang Empire, China - 5.4 million km2 (715)
# Macedonian Empire - 5.2 million km2 (323 BC)
# Fatimid Caliphate - 5.1 million km2 (969)
# Maurya Empire, India - 5.0 million km2 (250 BC)
# Northern Yuan Empire (Oirats), Mongolia - 5.0 million km2 (1550)
# Xin Dynasty, China - 4.7 million km2 (10)
# Tufan (Tibet) Empire - 4.6 million km2 (800)
# Pala Empire, India - 4.6 million km2 (850)
# Timurid Empire - 4.6 million km2 (1405)
# Mughal Empire, India - 4.6 million km2 (1690)
# First Mexican Empire - 4.4 million km2 (1822)
# Xiongnu Empire - 4.03 million km2 (176 BC)
# Hunnic Empire - 4.0 million km2 (441)
# Hepthalite Khanate (White Huns), India - 4.0 million km2 (490)
# Eastern Turks Khanate - 4.0 million km2 (624)
# Afsharid Dynasty, Persia - 4.0 million km2 (1747)
# Western Turks Khanate - 4.0 million km2 (630)
# Rouran Khaganate (Juan-juan) - 4.0 million km2 (405)
# Seleucid Empire - 3.9 million km2 (301 BC)
# Great Seljuq Empire - 3.9 million km2 (1080)
# Kushan Empire, India - 3.8 million km2 (200)
# Ilkhanate - 3.75 million km2 (1310)
# Khwarazmian Empire - 3.6 million km2 (1218)
# Nazi German Empire - 3.6 million km2 (1942)
# Sassanid Empire, Persia - 3.5 million km2 (620)
# Gupta Empire, India - 3.5 million km2 (400)
# Chagatai Khanate - 3.5 million km2 (1310 or 1350)
# Safavid Dynasty , Persia - 3.5 million km2 (1512)
# Western Jin Dynasty, China - 3.5 million km2 (300)
# Shaybanid (Uzbek) Dynasty - 3.5 million km2 (1510)
# Song Dynasty (Northern Song), China- 3.5 million km2 (1100)
# Ghaznavid Empire, Persia - 3.4 million km2 (1029)
# Almoravid Caliphate - 3.3 million km2 (1147)
# Tughlaq Dynasty, India - 3.2 million km2 (1320)
# Ghurids Sultanate, Persia - 3.2 million km2 (1200)
# Sui Dynasty, China - 3.1 million km2 (610)
# Khazar Khanate - 3.0 million km2 (850)
# Kievan Rus' - 3.0 million km2 (1050)
# Kara-Khanid Khanate - 3.0 million km2 (1025)
# Grand Duchy of Moscow - 3.0 million km2 (1505)
# Qajar Dynasty, Persia - 3.0 million km2 (1796)
# Samanid Dynasty, Persia - 2.85 million km2 (928)
# Median Empire - 2.8 million km2 (585 BC)
# Qin Dynasty, China - 2.8 million km2 (206 BC)
# Parthian Empire - 2.8 million km2 (1)
# Eastern Jin Dynasty, China - 2.8 million km2 (347)
# Liu Song Dynasty, China - 2.8 million km2 (420)
# Khilji Dynasty, India - 2.7 million km2 (1312 or 1320)
# Ayyubid Caliphate - 2.7 million km2 (1190)
# Liao Dynasty, China - 2.6 million km2 (947)
# Indo-Greek (Yavana) Kingdom, India - 2.5 million km2 (150 BC)
# Bactrian Empire - 2.5 million km2 (184 BC)
# Later Zhao Dynasty, China - 2.5 million km2 (329)
# Maratha Empire, India - 2.5 million km2 (1760)
# Kara-Khitan Khanate (Western Liao) - 2.5 million km2 (1210)
# Jin Dynasty (Jurchen) China - 2.3 million km2 (1126)
# Southern Qi Dynasty, China - 2.3 million km2 (502)
# Southern Song Dynasty, China - 2.1 million km2 (1127)
# Bahriyya Mamluks, Egypt - 2.1 million km2 (1300)
# Burjiyya Mamluks, Egypt - 2.1 million km2 (1400)
# Wei Dynasty, China - 2.0 million km2 (263)
# Earlier Zhao Dynasty, China - 2.0 million km2 (316)
# Former Qin Dynasty, China - 2.0 million km2 (376)
# Western Roman Empire - 2.0 million km2 (395)
# Northern Wei Dynasty, China - 2.0 million km2 (450)
# Saffarid Dynasty, Persia - 2.0 million km2 (900)
# Almohad Caliphate - 2.0 million km2 (1200)
# Inca Empire - 2.0 million km2 (1527)
# Karkota Dynasty (Kashmir), India - 2.0 million km2 (750)
# Satavahana Empire (Salivahana), India - 2.0 million km2 (90 AD)
# Pratihara Dynasty, India - 1.8 million km2 (860)
# Sibir Khanate - 1.8 million km2 (1520)
# Rashtrakuta Dynasty, India - 1.7 million km2 (805)
# Buyid Sultanate, Persia - 1.6 million km2 (980)
# Mamluk Sultanate, India - 1.6 million km2 (1228)
# Indo- Parthians (Pahalvas) Kingdom , India - 1.5 million km2 (AD 50)
# Wu Dynasty, China - 1.5 million km2 (221)
# Northern Zhou Dynasty, China - 1.5 million km2 (577)
# Nanda Dynasty, India - 1.5 million km2 (350 or 321 BC)
# Indo-Scythians (Shaka) Kingdom, India- 1.5 million km2 (BC 100)
# Tulunids Emirate - 1.5 million km2 (900)
# Idrisid Dynasty, Morocco - 1.5 million km2 (828)
# Suri Dynasty, India - 1.5 million km2 (1545 AD)
# Neo-Assyria - 1.4 million km2 (670 BC)
# Songhai Empire - 1.4 million km2 (1500)
# Macedonian Dynasty, Byzantine Empire - 1.35 million km2 (1025)
# Harsha Empire (Pusyabhutis), India - 1.35 million km2 (625 or 648)
# Liang Dynasty, China - 1.3 million km2 (502 or 549)
# Western Wei Dynasty, China - 1.3 million km2 (557)
# Later Liang Dynasty, China - 1.3 million km2 (923)
# Later Tang Dynasty, China - 1.3 million km2 (923)
# Shang Dynasty, China - 1.25 million km2 (1122 BC)
# Western Zhou Dynasty, China - 1.25 million km2 (1122 BC)
# Axumite Empire - 1.25 million km2 (350)
# Polish-Lithuanian Empire - 1.2 million km2 (1650)
# Carolingian Dynasty, Francia - 1.2 million km2 (814)
# Sunga Empire, India - 1.2 million km2 (BC 150)
# Kingdom of Kush (Meroë) (25th Dynasty), Sudan - 1.2 million km2 (BC 700)
# Mali Empire - 1.2 million km2 (1312)
# Thai Empire (Siam Empire) - 1.12 million km2 (1782)
# Chalukya Dynasty, India - 1.1 million km2 (636)
# Lodhi Dynasty, India - 1.1 million km2 (1517 AD)
# 18th Dynasty, Egypt - 1.0 million km2 (1450 BC)
# 19th Dynasty, Egypt - 1.0 million km2 (1300 BC)
# Eastern Wei Dynasty, China - 1.0 million km2 (550)
# Northern Qi Dynasty, China - 1.0 million km2 (550)
# Tahirid Dynasty, Persia - 1.0 million km2 (800)
# Holy Roman Empire - 1.0 million km2 (1050)
# Kalachuri Dynasty, India - 1.0 million km2 (1050)
# Western Xia Dynasty (Tangut), China - 1.0 million km2 (1100)
# Western Chalukya Dynasty, India - 1.0 million km2 (1121)
# Khmer Empire - 1.0 million km2 (1290)
# Avars Empire- 1.0 million km2 (600)
# Kanem Empire, Chad - 1.0 million km2 (1200)
# Volga Bulgars Khanate - 0.9 million km2 (1100)
# Maha-Meghavahana Dynasty, India- 0.9 million km2 (10 BC)
# Konbaung Dynasty, Burma - 0.9 million km2 (1800 AD)
# Akkadian Empire - 0.8 million km2 (2250 BC)
# Later Jin Dynasty, China - 0.8 million km2 (936)
# Ghana Empire - 0.8 million km2 (1067)
# Pagan Kingdom (Bagan), Burma - 0.8 million km2 (1200)
# Western Satraps Dynasty, India - 0.8 million km2 (100)
# Himyarite Kingdom, Yemen - 0.8 million km2 (400 AD)
# Balhae Kingdom, Korea - 0.8 million km2 (830)
# Khanate of Kazan - 0.7 million km2 (1540)
# Merovingian Dynasty, Francia - 0.7 million km2 (558)
# Bulgarian Empire - 0.7 million km2 (900)
# Shu Dynasty, China- 0.7 million km2 (221)
# Yadava (Gauli) Kingdom, India - 0.7 million km2 (1250)
# Paramara Dynasty ,India - 0.7 million km2 (1050)
# Kingdom of Dali (Hou li), China - 0.7 million km2 (1200)
# Vijayanagara (Tuluvas) Empire, India - 0.7 million km2 (1529)
# Kingdom of Nanzhao, China - 0.7 million km2 (830)
# Austro-Hungarian Empire - 0.676615 million km2 (1910)
# 15th Dynasty (Hyksos), Egypt - 0.65 million km2 (1650 BC)
# 26th Dynasty, Egypt - 0.65 million km2 (550 BC)
# Vakataka Kingdom, India - 0.65 million km2 (450 AD)
# Visigoths Kingdom - 0.6 million km2 (580)
# Caliphate of Córdoba - 0.6 million km2 (1000)
# Rai Dynasty (Chachas) (Sindh), India - 0.6 million km2 (675 AD)
# Maukhari (Kannauj) Dynasty ,India - 0.6 million km2 (600 AD)
# Bahmani Sultanate, India - 0.6 million km2 (1470 AD)
# Nizams Dynasty, India - 0.6 million km2 (1740 AD)
# Sikh Empire, India - 0.5609 million km2 (1845)
# Middle Kingdom, Egypt - 0.5 million km2 (1850 BC)
# Lydian Empire - 0.5 million km2 (585 BC)
# Neo-Babylonian Empire - 0.5 million km2 (562 BC)
# Kosala Dynasty, India - 0.5 million km2 (543 BC)
# Shishunaga Dynasty, India - 0.5 million km2 (510 BC)
# Chu Dynasty, China - 0.5 million km2 (350 BC)
# Pandyan Dynasty, India - 0.5 million km2 (1251)
# Later Han Dynasty, China - 0.5 million km2 (947)
# Kangju Empire (Transoxiana) - 0.5 million km2 (100 BC)
# Ostrogothic Kingdom - 0.5 million km2 (510 AD)
# Goguryeo Kingdom, Korea - 0.45 million km2 (476)
# Xia Dynasty, China (bassed on the hypothesis that prehistorical cities of Erlitou culture were once united) - 0.45 million km2 (1800 BC)
# New Kingdom, Hittite - 0.45 million km2 (1250 or 1220 BC)
# Crimean Khanate - 0.4 million km2 (1500)
# Old Kingdom, Egypt - 0.4 million km2 (2400 BC)
# Middle Kingdom, Assyria (under Tiglath-Pileser I) - 0.4 million km2 (1080 BC)
# Armenian Empire - 0.4 million km2 (83 BC)
# Latin Empire - 0.35 million km2 (1204)
# Harappan Empire, India - 0.3 million km2 (1800 BC)
# Mitanni Empire - 0.3 million km2 (1450 BC)
# Palailogan Dynasty (Byzantine Empire) - 0.3 million km2 (1300)
# 1st Dynasty, Babylon - 0.25 million km2 (1690 BC)
# Serbian Empire - 0.25 million km2 (1350)
# Aztec Empire - 0.22 million km2 (1520)
# Middle Elamite - 0.2 million km2 (1160 BC)
# 2nd Dynasty, Isin - 0.2 million km2 (1130 BC)
# Urartu Empire - 0.2 million km2 (800 BC)
# Phrygian Dynasty - 0.2 million km2 (750 BC)
# Old Kingdom, Assyria - 0.15 million km2 (1730 BC)
# Eastern Zhou Dynasty, China - 0.15 million km2 (770 BC)
Maritime empires

# British Empire - 33.67 million km2 (1922)
# Spanish Empire - 20.0 million km2 (ca. 1740-1790)
# Second French Colonial Empire - 12.3 million km2 (1938)
# Portuguese Empire - 10.4 million km2 (1815)
# United States of America - 9.67 million km2 (1899)
# Japanese Empire - 7.4 million km2 (1942)
# Roman Empire - 6.5 million km2 (117)
# Ottoman Empire - 5.2 million km2 (1683, 1829 or 1850)
# Italian Empire - 3.8 million km2 (1940)
# Dutch Empire - 3.7 million km2(1940)
# Chola Dynasty, India - 3.6 million km2 (1050)
# German Empire - 3.5 million km2 (1914)
# Justinian Dynasty (Byzantine Empire) - 3.5 million km2 (555)
# First French Colonial Empire - 3.4 million km2 (1670)
# Kalmar Union - 3.0 million km2 (1397)
# Danish Colonial empire - 3.0 million km2 (1800)
# Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire) - 2.8 million km2 (450)
# Majapahit Empire (Malaya) - 2.7 million km2 (1389)
# Belgian Empire - 2.5 million km2 (1914)
# First French Empire - 2.1 million km2 (1813)
# Srivijaya Empire - 1.2 million km2 (1200)
# Swedish Empire - 1.1 million km2 (1658)
# Ptolemaic Dynasty, Egypt - 1.0 million km2 (301 BC)
# Carthaginian Empire - 0.3 million km2 (220 BC)
Largest empires by population

Population estimates are unknown for many other ancient empires not listed here.
Population size

# British Empire - 531.3 million (in 1938)
# Qing Empire, China - 432.2 million in 1851.
# Russian Empire - 176.4 million in 1913
# Mughal Empire, India - 175.0 million in 1700
# Japanese Empire - 134.8 million in 1938
# Northern Song Dynasty, China - 123.0 million in 1103
# French Empire - 112.9 million in 1938
# Ming Empire, China - 110.0 million in 1600.
# Mongol Empire - 110.0 million (in the 13th century)
# Yuan Khanate - 86.0 million in 1290.
# Roman Empire - 80.0 million (in 2nd century AD)
# Sassanid Empire, Persia - 78.0 million (in the 7th century AD)
# Nazi German Empire - 75.4 million (in 1938)
# Han Empire, China - 74.0 million in 2
# Southern Song Dynasty, China - 73.0 million in 1193.
# Spanish Empire - 68.2 million
# German Empire - 64.9 million in 1914
# Eastern Han Empire, China - 64 million in 156
# Umayyad Caliphate - 62.0 million (in the 7th century)
# Dutch Empire - 60.0 million in 1940.
# Sui Dynasty, China - 53.0 million in 606
# Tang Empire, China - 53.0 million in 755
# Austro-Hungarian Empire - 52.8 million in 1914
# Italian Empire - 51.9 million in 1938
# Maurya Empire, India - 50.0 million in the 2nd century BC
# Achaemenid Empire - 49.4 million (in the 5th century BC)
# Jin Dynasty, China - 48.0 million in 1195.
Percentage of world population

250px|thumb|right|Achaemenid Empire in the 5th century BC.

# Achaemenid Empire, Persia - 44.0% (49.4 million out of 112.4 million in the 5th century BC/480 BC)
# Sassanid Empire, Persia - 37.1% (78.0 million out of 210 million in the 7th century AD)
# Qing Empire, China - 36.6% (381.0 million out of 1.041 billion in 1820)
# Roman Empire - 35.9% (80.0 million out of 223 million in the 2nd century AD)
# Maurya Empire, India - 33.3% (50.0 million out of 150 million in the 2nd century BC)
# Umayyad Caliphate - 29.5% (62.0 million out of 210 million in the 7th century AD)
# Mughal Empire, India - 29.2% (175.0 million out of 600 million in 1700)
# Ming Empire, China - 28.8% (160.0 million out of 556.2 million in 1600)
# Tang Empire, China - 28.0% (70.0 million out of 250 million in 850 AD)
# Gupta Empire, India - 26.36% (58.0 million out of 220 million in 400 AD)
# Han Empire, China - 26.0% (59.6 million out of 230 million in 2 AD)
# Mongol Empire - 25.6% (110.0 million out of 429 million in the 13th century)
# Pala Empire, India - 24.0% (60.0 million out of 250 million in 850)
# British Empire - 23.1% (531.3 million out of 2.295 billion in 1938)
# Song Dynasty, China - 22.0% (59.0 million out of 268 million in 1000)
# Abbasid Caliphate - 20.0% (50.0 million out of 250 million in 850)
# Rashidun Caliphate - 19.1% (40.3 million out of 210 million in 7th century)
# Kushan Empire, India - 19.0% (42.37 million out of 223 million in 140)
# Tughlaq Dynasty, India - 18.91% (70.0 million out of 370 million in 1330)
# Spanish Empire - 12.3% (68.2 million out of 556 million in the 17th century)
# Mali Empire - 10.0% (45.0 million out of 450 million in the mid 15th century)
# Russian Empire - 9.8% (176.4 million out of 1.791 billion in 1913)
# Ottoman Empire - 7.1% (39.0 million out of 556 million in the 17th century)
# Japanese Empire - 5.9% (134.8 million out of 2.295 billion in 1938)
# Vijayanagara Empire, India - 5.0% (25.0 million out of 500 million in the 16th century)
# French Empire - 4.9% (112.9 million out of 2.295 billion in 1938)
# German Empire - 3.7% (64.9 million out of 1.753 billion in 1910)
# Dutch Empire - 3.5% (60.0 million out of 1.700 billion in 1907)
# Nazi German Empire - 3.3% (75.4 million out of 2.295 billion in 1938)
# Austro-Hungarian Empire - 2.9% (51.3 million out of 1.753 billion in 1910)
# Italian Empire - 2.3% (51.9 million out of 2.295 billion in 1938)
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