Largest Empires in History

Largest empires in history. These are all empires with areas of over 1.5 million sq. mi. (3.9 million sq. km.). I also threw the USSR, PRC, and USA into the video because they are (or were) huge countries with significant global influence, so they are basically empires.

You can read about these empires (and smaller ones) here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_empires

And the three countries not in the list above:

USA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States
USSR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union
PRC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China

The maps were made with MapChart.

https://mapchart.net/index.html

(I also used Autodesk Sketchbook to modify some of the subdivision borders to make the historic country maps look more accurate.)

Music: Exciting Trailer by Kevin MacLeod

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